Matt Hopkins, the Senior Online Editor for the CropLife Media Group at Meister Media Worldwide, is convinced that variable-rate fertigation can be simple. The arguments in proof of this are in his article for PecisionAg. A rule is a rule is a rule, right? Well, not always. Sometimes, rules are meant to be changed. Most people […]

Self-steering combines, which require G.P.S. technology, have made field operations more accurate WASHINGTON — Information-based production (precision agriculture) technologies have seen rapid growth in the United States, according to a May 2 article on Amber Waves, an on-line publication of the Economic Research Service (E.R.S.) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The advancing technologies allow farmers to more […]

Drones may ultimately help change the face of agriculture, as we saw in action at the AgBot Challenge in Indiana last month, but it’s not just commercial farming that could benefit from autonomous robots. Case in point: FarmBot, whose autonomous kits called Genesis will be available for pre-order this week, simply wants to oversee your home garden. Its ambitions […]

A central Wisconsin farmer says by utilizing an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) as a crop management tool, her family farm increased productivity significantly in 2015. Megan Wallendal says by using a UAV and the correct software to scout her fields she was able to proactively manage crops to prevent yield loss before it happened.  “If you get […]

     When you think about field robots, you’ll likely bring up images of small spider-like machines that work in groups to tend the crop. At least those are the types we’ve written about in the past. But this week we got wind of a field robot that is being called “the largest in the […]

By: Matthew J. Grassi | Paul Schrimpf This may be a bit of stating the obvious here, but we’ll throw it out there anyways: as much as some of us may fight it, we journalists are unequivocal #List Nerds. Listicles, Top 10s, “Best-Ofs”. Websites like Buzzfeed and Huffington Post basically made the leap to mainstream media status all […]

UNL Mechanized Systems Management graduate student Rachel Stevens preparing to plant the next field in the research study. Announcements of emerging agricultural technologies occur more frequently with each growing season. For most producers, the biggest question about these advanced systems is “How will an investment or upgrade pay off in my operation.” Members of the […]

If you are late to the aerial imagery party and think that agricultural drones are the vehicle that are the be all, end all answer to your imagery needs, you are going to lose and lose big at that. But before we get into that, let’s take a trip back down memory lane to the […]

360 Yield Center’s 360 Y-Drop tool, attached to spray booms, drizzles nitrogen at the base of the stalk. When Illinois Grower Jeremy Wilson hit the farm conference circuit these past two years, one of his talks was always packed out — the story of his intense nitrogen management approach. His opening statement declared, “If you’re […]