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Prioritizing Soil Health to Protect Profitability for Generations to Come

The Crave family sees soil health as a key to reducing inputs, machinery costs, and creating more value-added products for long-term success and sustainability.
By Laura Barrera posted on November 21, 2022 | Posted in Data Management, Industry News
Since the founding of the multigenerational Crave Brothers Farm in Waterloo, Wis., in 1980, they’ve adopted sustainable farming practices, added a cheese factory to increase the value of their milk, and operate a manure digester that generates enough electricity to power their operation and 300 neighboring homes, making them a carbon-negative company.
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Trey Hill

Technological Advancements Can Help Farmers Better Understand Their Land

Third-generation farmer Trey Hill looks to a future in which he’s equipped with tools that will help him improve his data analysis in order to increase yield and maintain soil health.
November 14, 2022
While he doesn’t consider himself an early adopter of technological advancements, Hill does believe new developments in ag tech will influence the ways in which farming changes over the course of the next 10 years.
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Leveraging Data to Control Costs, Improve Outputs

From cutting inputs and “right sizing” equipment to building new customer bases and revenue streams, Mitchell Hora says analyzing a farm’s data will help improve bottom-line decision making.
By Dan Crummett posted on October 31, 2022 | Posted in Precision Agriculture 101
Mitchell Hora says increasing reliance on bottom line profitability and data driven decisions will be the key that helps him survive and thrive in the future.
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Redefining the Dollars & Sense Approach to Farm Business Management of the Future

From on- and off-farm revenue diversification, equipment sharing and a renewed reliance on data-driven decision making, the next generation farm operation will require an entrepreneurial mentality.
By Jack Zemlicka posted on January 28, 2021 | Posted in Service & Support
When it comes to the evolution of farming, it’s been said that the pace of change has never been so fast and change will never be this slow again.
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Technology Adoption On the Rise for Strip-Tillers

Despite the challenges of 2019, strip-tillers topped 200-bushel corn, explored organic practices and added precision farming tools to their operations.
November 16, 2020 | Posted in Precision Agriculture 101
Results of the 7th Annual Strip-Till Operational Practices Benchmark study, evaluating 2019 cropping practices, saw some subtle and more significant shifts in strip-till practices.
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Precision Profile

Using New Tools to Obtain Field Level Profitability

June 26, 2020
Source: Precision Ag Reviews
Stephen Lacey, Wendell, Minnesota, had a history of frustration with the accuracy and dependability of the monitors they had been using, so the family decided it was best to go with one brand, and in 2017, the family rolled their fleet to all John Deere equipment. Find out how that change led to increased profitability in this article from Precision Ag Reviews.
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Stretching the RTK Signal to Capitalize on Custom Jobs

By Clair Urbain posted on June 24, 2019 | Posted in Industry News
J-Ace Farms, located near Blue Earth, Minn., uses precision farming practices in its strip-till and no-till farming operation. Matt Alford, and his father-in-law, Jim Erdahl, typically build strips in the fall for corn the following year using a 16-row Environmental Tillage Systems Soil Warrior strip-till unit, applying prescription-rate phosphorous (P) and potassium (K).
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The college offers an associate degree in Applied Science in Agriculture (60 credit hours). Students enrolled in this program may specialize in precision farming technology by selecting up to 15 credit hours in this area and agriculture business, sales and agronomy.
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Offering training on Ag Leader, Trimble, Reichhardt, Norac and Integris Systems in twice yearly customer training events (spring/fall). Also offering individual training opportunities on any HTS Ag products and SMS software, year round.
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