As Wayne Vitek drove across a field near Mitchell’s Bay planting soybeans recently, a group of sensors took 200 readings per second at the soil level. A Smart Firmer was […] Read more
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More sensors for planters
A seed trench firmer with sensors takes readings every eighth of an inch across the field
Editorial: Dealing with disruptive technology
My family bred polled Holsteins for 30 years, working away in fits and starts carefully crossing the limited number of polled families in the breed. In the last few years […] Read more
Finding agriculture innovation triggers for Africa
The continent doesn’t have access to many of the inputs of developed countries, but that is changing
On much of the African continent, 15 years ago there was an almost total absence of landline telephone technology. Now, with smallholder farmers as much at the forefront as any […] Read more
The big data dairy challenge
The dairy sector is showing how machine learning and artificial intelligence systems can convert raw data into insight
Dairy farm software and equipment is increasingly turning to the power of machine learning and big data sets to bring new tools to farmers. Large, established companies and startups are […] Read more
Fancy tech has to work
Great ideas promoted by ag-tech startup companies have to have a practical place on the farm
Ensuring new products work at the farm level is critical for making business ventures profitable for both investors and clients, says a spokesperson from AgLaunch, a Tennessee-based investment company focused […] Read more
Lessons from farm data innovators
Where do you start with data management on crop farms? Three farmers who use data extensively say to start with what you can manage and make sure that the system […] Read more