Last week, Leo Johnson (recently retired chairman of Johnson Tractor, Janesville, Wis.) and I took our mutual friend and Farm Equipment inaugural Hall of Fame class inductee Paul Wallem to lunch.
As startups and major OEMs alike strive to innovate and scale, the roadmap laid out by Elon Musk for rocket engineering offers some insightful guidelines, particularly for those venturing into autonomous farm machinery.
One Deere dealer executive told Precision Farming Dealer the last time they heard about the Volocopter drone collaboration from John Deere was in early 2020 and that there have been no updates from John Deere since.
"Balancing savings and effective management of troublesome weed species will be a major challenge with these novel precision application systems," says Rodrigo Werle, associate professor and extension cropping systems weed scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A European tech firm has introduced laser-based technology offering crop monitoring images in five colors and the ability to operate night or day at ranges up to 300 meters.
Over the past 40 years agricultural scanning technology has developed rapidly from sprayers with only the capability to recognize brown bare soil from very green growing plant material to machines capable of guiding moving sprayers to target individual plants
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This phrase refers to a tendency of militaries to engage an opponent in the same way as the “last war fought.” With generations often passing between large-scale conflicts, changing global dynamics means the past may have less relevance to the present.
I tagged along with the precision crew at John Deere dealer Riesterer and Schnell in eastern Wisconsin last week. Among the several takeaways from the visit, they told me there’s one precision tool in particular that’s really paying off for farmers right now.
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