DigiFarm VBN, an agricultural technology company, announces it has signed a supplier agreement with AGCO Corporation, a world-leading manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment solutions. The supplier agreement will offer DigiFarm VBN cellular hardware and GNSS corrections for all models of agriculture GNSS receivers through Challenger, Fendt and Massey Ferguson dealers in North America.

A definitive agreement has been signed for AGCO to acquire the Precision Planting equipment business.

With release planned for 2018, the Data-Hub will tackle the issue of allowing data transfer and conversion from multiple suppliers and OEMs to communicate with each other.

As part of Fuse and its open approach to precision farming, AGCO is focused on helping customers optimize their farms through seamless technology integration and connectivity.

At the pinnacle of the precision farming boom, technology specialists were in high demand, while supply was relatively low. But as the farm machinery market has slowed, so too have precision hiring plans for most OEM dealers according to Ag Equipment Intelligence’s 2016 Dealer Business Outlook & Trends report.

AGCO announced it is teaming up with iMaps to implement QlikView, the business intelligence and visualization software.

A new organization, the Agricultural Data Coalition (ADC), has been announced with the goal of building a data repository where farmers can securely store and oversee the information collected by their equipment.