“The evidence presented in this report helps show that these technologies don’t just make sense environmentally; they make economic sense as well,” said Carson Fort, government affairs manager at the American Soybean Association.
AgZen, Inc. announced the signing of an agreement with Corteva to explore the commercial potential of AgZen’s crop spraying optimization technology, RealCoverage.
Dealers were asked — What’s preventing you from offering more precision services? They were given 11 options to choose from. Most agreed that the No. 1 challenge is finding employees who can deliver precision services.
“During field trials, farmers using See & Spray saw a 60% to 70% savings,” Mark Schaffner shared after a trial with Steven Swanhorst, a farmer based in northeastern South Dakota.
How does Cody Boeck sort through the noise and narrow down which technologies are actually worth the investment? He created a Venn diagram to guide his evaluation process.
Tyler Troiola traded in his Hagie sprayer for a used 2018 John Deere R4038 sprayer with a 120-foot boom and 1,000 gallon-tank so he could upgrade to See & Spray Premium. His dealer, Sloan Implement, installed the 36-camera system, which took almost 2 weeks to complete.
The next phase of expansion will see dozens more Greeneye systems deployed in farmers' fields this year, targeting the 200M acres of corn, soybean and cotton grown in the U.S.
"Balancing savings and effective management of troublesome weed species will be a major challenge with these novel precision application systems," says Rodrigo Werle, associate professor and extension cropping systems weed scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
I tagged along with the precision crew at John Deere dealer Riesterer and Schnell in eastern Wisconsin last week. Among the several takeaways from the visit, they told me there’s one precision tool in particular that’s really paying off for farmers right now.
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