Imagine being a farmer in the 21st century: Crop prices are highly variable, the climate is changing and global population growth demands higher yields from fewer cultivated acres.

The Hunnicutts are no strangers to precision farming. For more than 10 years, they have been pushing the envelope, using first their own RTK base station and now a signal subscription to precisely strip-till, then plant, spray and harvest their 2,600 acres of corn, seed corn, popcorn and soybeans.

WinField has increased its participation in two separate efforts to help simplify the exchange of information between software platforms while ensuring that farmers retain ownership and control of their data.

Jeremy Wilson, technology specialist at Crop IMS, a precision consulting company in Effingham, Ill., has worked with a range of customers, including equipment dealerships and farmers, to tailor data management service offerings to meet their needs. In this live webinar event, Wilson shared his experience on developing data management services, partnership opportunities for dealers and considerations for growing this segment of your business. [To view any of our webinar replays, you must be logged in with a free user account.]

Due to the growing demand for increased food production to feed the expanding population, along with rising land prices and increasing fertilizer and fuel costs, making precise choices about irrigation and nutrient management is more critical than ever.

Here's a glimpse of what's on tap for the December 4 edition of Precision Farming Dealer.

The challenge with using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or "drones" in farming is less the technology and more the task of managing and acting on the vast volume of data it generates, a conference at Harper Adams University has heard.

The ongoing evolution of precision farming technology was on display at the 2014 Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa.

Now farmers and ranchers can have a long-range Internet connection up to 14.5 miles from their home-base router.