Hemisphere has assumed ownership of the Outback assets, including a well-established global sales channel, infrastructure, and trademarks. Additionally, licenses to IP and related technology have been executed.

Industry news dominated the month of August, with news from Deere taking the top two spots, first on G5 Technology coming available for F4365 High-Capacity Nutrient Applicants and second on the acquisition of PLA. Rounding out the top three items was a video from InfoAg 2018 on Teralytic's NPK Wireless Soil-Probe.

Germany-based xarvio Digital Farming Solutions introduced its new scouting app, with image recognition technology to identify — with near 90% certainty — 11 known diseases and 11 weed species in the U.S. Farmers have the ability to take an early-stage, in-field photo and cross-reference the image in the scouting apps database to identify the disease or weed.

Reichhardt Electronic Innovations attended the 2018 Farm Progress Show to introduce its newest product, GREEN FIT, which acts as a gateway between machine language and technology language. The interface provides growers the ability to use an AutoTrac guidance system with a variety of equipment brands, and eliminates the burden of learning and converting to a new steering system when buying another equipment brand.

Case IH takes another step forward in introducing their AFS Connect Portal, an advanced farm management tool. The new portal features a number of features to improve the farm data management of farmers and dealers alike.

360 Yield Center President Gregg Sauder discusses the inefficient way that Nitrogen is handled in large planters and how fixing wait times is key to nationwide nitrogen adaption. 360 Yield Center has found a solution by reducing downtime with on Nitrogen refilling on the fly.

The last half-decade has seen both subtle and dramatic shifts in dealer priorities, with evolving sales goals and service objectives. But results of the recently released sixth annual Precision Farming Dealer benchmark study reinforce several trends for how dealers plan to achieve continued business growth.

The system is an interface that utilizes the same monitor and user interface that AutoTrac users want. The Green Fit interface eliminates the burden of learning and converting to a new steering system when buying another equipment brand.