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.
Source: Carlos J. Harris, USDA's Science Tuesday Blog
American farmers have a long history of overcoming obstacles. In 1938, they helped the country emerge from the Dust Bowl by switching to contour plowing and eradicated the boll weevil forty years later by employing integrated pest management techniques.
Chris Gould's combine cab is loaded like the cockpit of a fighter jet he used to fly as he harvests soybeans in northern Illinois, steered by satellites, four video screens glowing with up to minute updates about his crop and the work's progress.
Iteris Inc. has announced the release of ClearPath Ag Select, an expanded Application Programming Interface (API) for iOS, Android and other computing platforms that provides access to high-resolution weather information and mapping visualization for real-time decision support.
The collaboration offers growers a step-change in sustainable crop production through better recommendations for nitrogen application management and other field input planning, which can help deliver improved crop yields.
A company in Neodesha is building drones that its owner believes could someday help farmers watch over their fields without spending hours walking or driving through their property.
AgJunction announced that CLAAS, one of its major OEM Solutions customers, will begin factory installation of the GPS Pilot with CLAAS S7 and CLAAS S10 guidance control terminals during Q4 2014 at manufacturing locations in Harsewinkel, Germany and Le Mans, France.
Digi-Star has announced the launch of TMR Tracker 5.0 for this fall. The new TMR Tracker 5.0 offers several enhanced user functions, including a new dry matter (DM) change log for each ingredient with inventory price effective dates, time tracking for loading and unloading ingredients, automated desktop reports and a daily diary to track on-farm events that might impact feed intake.
We had a front-row seat to the launch of AEF’s Agricultural Interoperability Network (AgIN) at AGRITECHNICA a few weeks ago, which promises to ease the process of data sharing for farmers and dealers.
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