In the face of mounting concerns about weed resistance and pesticide management in farming, members of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System’s Precision Agriculture team will hold a sprayer clinic Jan. 22 at the E.V. Smith Research Center in Shorter, Ala.

Redesigned from the ground up, the all-new Precision Disk single-disk air drills deliver best-in-class seed placement accuracy for an array of crops grown in diverse conditions and geographies.

Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) Crop Risk Services (CRS) today released a new Apple iPad® app called AerosExpress –AgentTM. This new application is packed with a number of powerful tools to assist insurance agents who are on the move, allowing them to provide faster, more efficient delivery of crop insurance service for ADM CRS customers.

John McGuire discusses the value of data management service for precision farming dealers and some considerations before adding the offering for customers.

Farm meetings that used to be dominated by grey hair or no hair now have a healthier proportion of young men and women. And if you think young people aren’t passionate about agriculture, check out Twitter.

Last summer’s drought in the US Midwest reminded us all just how vulnerable harvests and commodity prices can be to adverse or extreme weather events. That, along with crop failures in Russia and, more recently, the UK, has helped to turn prices that once served as ceilings into floors for commodities like wheat and corn in the last two years.

The summit will focus on using in-field crop sensors for variable-rate fertilization to increase nitrogen use efficiency and on farm field information and data management.

The acquisition demonstrates ongoing support of the agricultural market.

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David Franzen, Extension Soil Specialist at North Dakota State University, chats about his research on the use of optical crop sensors. The research looks at the application of nitrogen through the use of sensors to estimate yield and side dressing. Franzen gives some specific examples of his testing in fields and the results of a study in Nebraska and Missouri.