Reading Time: 5 minutes The colours of agriculture are changing. Today a trade show is a patchwork — three shades of green, several types of red, the standard blue and even some yellow. But farmers aren’t just looking at the colour of the paint when they shop for tractors and implements these days. According to Henry Holtmann, vice-chair of […] Read more
Data collection, integrated systems are the changing face of farm equipment
Precision farming is giving more farmers the power to control how many acres they need to crop
Precision variability in agriculture
For precision ag, the headline grabber is nitrogen. But how exactly the technology will improve N efficiency is still up in the air
Reading Time: 7 minutes When it comes to precision agriculture on the Prairies, all eyes are on nitrogen efficiency. It makes sense, after all. Nitrogen is an expensive input that seems to all too conveniently track the price of grain, at least on an upward trajectory. And after grain prices fall, nitrogen prices seem mysteriously to be a bit […] Read more
Precision ag ready for big time
After two decades of development, farm technology has finally caught up with the opportunity to shave inputs and drive yields
Reading Time: 5 minutes An old cartoon shows two scientists standing at a ship’s rail, gazing out over the beauty of the horizon. In a reflective moment, one extends his arm, motions to the setting sun and says to the other: “Ever thought about all that data out there just yearning to be processed?” Substitute a couple of modern […] Read more
The slow road to traceability for grains and oilseeds
Traceability may be inevitable, and it may even be welcomed by farmers, but it is arriving in baby steps
Reading Time: 5 minutes The word gets rolled out every time there’s a scare about food-borne illness, or when a meat or vegetable recall hits the headlines. It’s traceability. On the food side of the agri-food industry, it’s a word that instils confidence and trust. Yet on the agricultural side — at least, on the crop side — it […] Read more
Soil plays a major role in precision sustainability
Precision technology is teaching us some surprising eye-openers
Reading Time: 2 minutes Seriously? Can it really be better to till up and down some slopes instead of across? That’s one of the conclusions from early work with precision agriculture in Australia, where the technology is proving a boon for field crop productivity. It turns out that older technologies have blinded us to much of what’s really going […] Read more
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