The Myers began their precision farming journey in 1996 when they outfitted their 1983 Gleaner L3 combine with a yield monitor. That’s when Bill Myers, who farms with his son, John, daughter, Rita, and brothers, Robert, and Ivan Jr., began to understand what adjusting crop inputs could do for their bottom line.
A cooperative of growers and an agricultural data non-profit have agreed to combine their technology platforms and create a vital resource for data-driven agriculture – a neutral, secure and private data storage repository controlled by growers. The combined platforms will be known as AgXchange and will be an independent data repository commercially available through the Growers Ag Data Cooperative (GADC) where producers can control, store, view and share their farm data assets.
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.
From technician to service manager to now chief technology officer, Layne Richins has pretty much seen it all in his 20-plus year career with Stotz Equipment. And now he’s at the forefront of implementing AI at the 24-store John Deere dealership.
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