Robin Booker

Glacier FarmMedia staff

Robin Booker is a reporter with Glacier FarmMedia.

Stories by Robin Booker

The Agra GPS CRG receiver is RTK capable and includes a JD-Bridge that allows John Deere displays to autosteer different brand machines including Claas, Agco and CNH.
Machinery

GPS receiver unlocks RTK precision

System designed to work with any base station that surveyors use

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Glacier FarmMedia – Farmers that need RTK precision have another option with the launch of the Agra GPS CRG receiver. Andrew Clayton of Agra GPS said the new receiver is […] Read more
Decades after its debut, the Big Bud still attracts a crowd at farm shows. At 1,100 h.p. this Williams Brothers owned 16v-747 was largest ever made and spends its winters outside Big Equipment in Havre, Montana.
Machinery

Big Bud tractor designed for easy repair

The new machine has a 1.5-inch thick frame, C-18 engine with a horsepower range from 640 to 750 and CAT 988 HD axles

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Glacier FarmMedia – Big Bud tractors will roll off a production line this year for the first time since 1991. “We’re going back and building a new run of tractors […] Read more
InnerPlant codes the plants to emit a fluorescent protein with a specific colour to be picked up by optical cameras on farm equipment or surveillance tools.
Crops

The secret messages of plants

New traits enable plants to signal up to seven separate issues by emitting coloured fluorescent proteins on their leaves

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Glacier FarmMedia – Crop traits are being developed that will enable plants to signal when they’re exposed to specific stressors in a way that can be instantly detected by satellite […] Read more
The CEMIS 1200 ISOBUS terminal controls automated steering, online documentation, ISOBUS and TASK controller applications, and section control.
Machinery

Claas, Trimble develop new GPS steering system

New system from Trimble and Class uses one user interface

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Glacier FarmMedia – Trimble and Claas have developed a new GPS steering system for Claas tractors, combine harvesters and forage harvesters. The joint development includes satellite-based steering, precision farming and […] Read more
The Soiltech Wireless sensor can be placed on the ground to act as a localized weather station by measuring temperature and humidity. It can also be buried to monitor moisture and temperature.
Machinery, News

Soil tech firms allow sensors to work together

Ceres Imaging and Soiltech Wireless say the recent agreement allows their technology to validate each other in the field

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Glacier FarmMedia – Ceres Imaging and Soiltech Wireless have an agreement that enables the two systems to work together. Soiltech Wireless offers a cellular-based wireless sensor and Ceres Imaging uses […] Read more
Deere’s fully autonomous 8R tractor is used for tillage operations. It relies on multiple Deere products designed to automate decisions that operators previously had to make, including tillage depth.
Machinery

Tillage implements equipped with depth sensor

John Deere’s new TruSet Active system uses an ultrasonic sensor that constantly measures frame height and tillage depth

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Glacier FarmMedia – John Deere has updated its TruSet product with a sensor that increases the accuracy of the automatic tillage depth system. The improved system, called TruSet Active, will […] Read more
John Deere’s lineup of strip-till rigs includes two three-point-hitch models and three drawn models capable of applying anhydrous and both dry and liquid fertilizer.
Machinery

John Deere brings new equipment to strip-till market

Five models of Deere-branded strip-till implements capable of fertilizer applications will be available this winter

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Glacier FarmMedia – A new lineup of John Deere-branded strip-till rigs is expected to be available this winter. The tillage implements are produced by Environmental Tillage Systems, which sells them […] Read more
The Pest Management Regulatory Agency is developing guidelines for getting remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS) on the label of crop protection products, but stakeholders say the process is taking too long. In this photo a DJI T40 sprays a crop.
Machinery

Drone spraying still grounded by rules

Many producers see drones as a lower-cost alternative but a full set of rules are needed before widespread use can occur

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Glacier FarmMedia – Spray drone technology is rapidly evolving, but regulations that allow drones to apply crop protection products are struggling to get off the ground. The Remotely Piloted Aerial […] Read more