Attendees to the annual Farm Progress Show have always enjoyed kicking the tires on new ag equipment and indulging on a variety of freebies from vendors.
Farmers who grow Golden Harvest corn or soybeans will soon have more data integration available to enhance their on-farm decision-making. This fall, the seed company is connecting with the John Deere Operations Center so farmers will be able to receive better recommendations via E-Luminate, the Golden Harvest digital ag platform.
A Yield Efficiency Score, by Premier Crop, is similar to a credit FICO score, is a single number derived from multiple factors. Its purpose is to determine a grower’s return on investment on a per acre basis but from a spatial perspective.
Many organizations have developed and demonstrated (either publicly or privately) proof-of-concept autonomous machines that provide a confidence in the core technology required for autonomy. This is shifting the thinking of OEMs from asking “Can it be done?” to now answering the question of “How can we make it scale?”
Ag data platforms promise the value of their services—analytics, benchmarking, prescriptions etc.—will exceed the cost of annual or monthly ag data storage subscription fees.
This year has shown interesting new developments in market sentiments, with dealers continuing to slowly move away from hardware and steer sharply toward data management for future revenue, according to the seventh annual Precision Farming Dealer Benchmark Study.
In-house agronomists and annual service contracts see jumps in 2019, while fewer rely on precision specialists for delivery of data management support.
Agronomic service is still a push-pull offering for dealers. Some have proactively embraced and invested in providing robust support options to customers that include soil sampling, data analysis and field prescriptions.
The more things change, the more they stay the same, at least in terms of how dealers are selling and servicing precision farming products.
While strides have been made establishing precision as a standalone business, dealerships continue to seek a better balance between revenue generated by hardware sales and service.
Despite market challenges, a majority of dealers report measurable precision revenue growth in 2018, including nearly one-third seeing an increase of at least 8%.
Despite the downturn in the ag economy, precision farming dealers have largely maintained an ambitious sales outlook, banking on their ability to increase billable service and capture ROI-based revenue from new products.
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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