The path to leveraging precision farming information is a rocky one for Charles Augello at CY Farms near Elba, N.Y. Farming 5,500 acres of strip-tilled corn and soybeans as well as conventionally sown wheat, peas, cabbage and turf, CY Farms finds its fields, which average less that 25 acres in size, an obstacle to leveraging precision farming equipment and data.

Jeremy Wilson, technology specialist at Crop IMS, a precision consulting company in Effingham, Ill., has worked with a range of customers, including equipment dealerships and farmers, to tailor data management service offerings to meet their needs. In this live webinar event, Wilson shared his experience on developing data management services, partnership opportunities for dealers and considerations for growing this segment of your business. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]

The challenge with using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or "drones" in farming is less the technology and more the task of managing and acting on the vast volume of data it generates, a conference at Harper Adams University has heard.

The ongoing evolution of precision farming technology was on display at the 2014 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa.

Internships offer many benefits to students and employers. Students get exposed to segments of agriculture they have not experienced, and employers benefit from quality, short-term help. University and trade school professionals share some tips that can help dealers set up a mutually beneficial internship program.

Mike Martinez with Trimble Agriculture talks about the massive growth he's seeing in dealers' interests in data management products for growers.

FarmersEdge has announced a joint venture with FarmCommand, a ISOBUS, M2M and telematics provider. This investment will leave FarmersEdge with controlling interest.

Further developing their partnership, John Deere and BASF have signed an agreement which covers the joint development of integrated precision farming solutions aiming to significantly enhance arable farming productivity.