Verizon announced that it plans to phase out its 2G and 3G networks by 2021 and transition customers into its LTE network. This isn’t a new revelation and other providers are following suit. But as the sunset dates near, it’s got the attention of GPS and auto-steering suppliers in the ag industry.

Walking the aisles at this year’s Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill., there were the usual new equipment innovations on display. But it’s the behind-the-scenes developments that also caught my attention, specifically how precision manufacturers are integrating more automation and connectivity into their products.

DuPont Pioneer's $300 million acquisition of Silicon Valley based Granular might have you wondering what happens to all that data a provider collects after it is sold? This post answers that question.

As I begin crunching the numbers and analyzing the record number of responses to our 2017 Strip-Till Operational Practices Benchmark study, some interesting trends are taking shape.

You would have to live under a rock to not have heard about farmers’ issues with dicamba this growing season. Arkansas banned the pesticide, Missouri temporarily banned and then changed the label, and complaints are skyrocketing in Indiana and Illinois.

On the eve of our 4th annual National Strip-Tillage Conference last week in Omaha, Neb., I had the opportunity to assemble a group of farmers for a dinner roundtable discussion on some of the precision farming practices and tools they’ve implemented on their farming operation.

Spending this week in Omaha, Neb., for our Dealerships Minds Summit event focused on remarketing used equipment, I thought about some of the challenges and opportunities dealers are seeing in this area on the precision side.

Returning last week from the summer meeting of the Independent Precision Ag Alliance, a diverse group of precision dealers whose perspectives I always value, one of the conversations centered best practices for billing and collection.

As I was driving back and forth between our office and warehouse a couple of weeks ago, there was a survey crew working along the highway. They had their RTK antenna in one hand, and their data logger in the other. And for the next few days, they continued to work on this stretch of highway doing a survey of elevation. And it got me to thinking about how all of us adopt technology, and specifically how quickly we do it.

While still a niche, but growing farming practice, strip-till and precision farming technology intersect on many farmers’ operations to improve efficiency and productivity.