Jeff Herrold farms with his brother, Paul, on Herrold Farms near Wanatah, Ind. While they are no strangers to precision farming practices, Jeff says he certainly would like to leverage the data they have collected to better manage inputs and improve yields.
Buried in the Dept. of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit to block John Deere’s acquisition of The Climate Corporation’s Precision Planting division is one paragraph that got my attention:
Adopting a “decision ag” model rooted in service accountability, cross-training and advanced metrics positions Southern States Cooperative for continuous growth in an ever-changing segment of the ag industry.
Hardware is often cited as the foundation on which many precision farming businesses are built and revenue generated from component sales has traditionally been the pathway to profitability.
TechCrunch.com reports Google parent company Alphabet is in advanced discussions to sell its Terra Bella satellite business to Planet Labs, but Monsanto’s Climate Corporation was also considered as purchaser for about $300 million.
At the upcoming Maximizing Return on Investment workshops, Wheat Growers agronomists will provide in-depth insight into these record yields, beginning with a review of summer plot data.
Now a few years into the movement of ag data from the farmstead into the cloud, we are seeing two different models of cloud-based platforms emerge. There are cloud-based storage platforms with aggregated data sharing; and there are cloud-based platforms without aggregated data sharing. It is important for all farmers to know the difference.
With this integration, growers can visualize processed and analyzed drone data within Operations Center’s Field Analyzer, overlaying it with other map products such as yield or as applied application maps.
The past two weeks I have been on the road, traveling to Chicago and Orlando to speak at two very different ag data conferences. The first was the Big Data Dairy Management conference held by the American Dairy Science Association. The second was AgGateway's annual conference. The audiences were different, but many of the issues were the same. Here are few of my reflections.
Consolidation is trending in the precision farming industry with several equipment manufacturers, hardware suppliers and data management providers merging or forming business partnerships in recent months.
The latest software release for Operations Center, along with new mobile apps, give producers a more complete view of a farm operation — whether in the office or on the go.
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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