Reading Time: 5 minutes Phil Jennings of Kinze Manufacturing gets a big kick out of riding in their modified tractor when it’s hauling one of their grain carts during a real Iowa harvest. When the call goes out for the cart, the tractor starts chugging across the field to where the combine is working. Jennings just sits there and […] Read more
Here come the farm robots
Robotic tractors are already in advanced field tests, and the results are producing great optimism
A new venture
If you want to talk diversification in Canadian farming, you’ve got to talk Hutterite. Fortunately, it’s a topic Paul Wipf is proud to discuss
Reading Time: 7 minutes Paul Wipf is a Hutterite ambassador of sorts. He has talked about life on Hutterite colonies at Alberta farm shows, he speaks openly to reporters, and he puts time and effort into helping the general public see what it means to be Hutterite. Wipf is also the farm steward — he doesn’t like the title […] Read more
Two ‘Leading Edge’ innovations for corn growers
Designed by a farmer, one innovation fills your truck more efficiently. The second cuts losses at harvest
Reading Time: 5 minutes In times of tighter margins, most farmers step up their search for some advantage to improve their farming operation. Whether it’s new or old, they’re hoping to find something that boosts production, trims costs or, even better, does both. Even sweeter is if that innovation was developed through the vision of another farmer. That helps […] Read more
PHOTOS: Pest Patrol: What are the best apps for agriculture?
Six apps that that can help you with crop production, record keeping, product support and social media
Reading Time: < 1 minute Below is a summary of a live demo of different agriculture apps that Peter Gredig (AgNition) and I gave at this year’s FarmSmart Agriculture Conference at the University of Guelph. Rule #1: Unless you’re looking for games like Farmville, Farming Simulator or Kid’s Farming Sim Tractor, search for apps in Google first before searching through […] 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
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
A crop diagnostic lab on a microchip
New technology is bringing the science lab to the field for better, faster scouting decisions
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s a sentence nobody likes to hear, especially in the midst of all the time pressures and the short windows of farming today. “I’m not sure about this, we’d better send a sample to the lab.” It might be an agrologist or crop scout who says it to you, or a plant pathologist or veterinarian, […] Read more
What’s next for crop apps?
We’ve come a long way, but there’s a lot further we can go
Reading Time: 6 minutes “There’s an app for that!” They’re among the most often heard words in this data-driven world of mobile devices and services. Yet with the launch of app after app, not to mention all the buzz about the Cloud, new questions are cropping up, including several that we might never have thought we’d be asking. Have we […] Read more
Satellites and ag drones link up
By targeting their strengths, these two technologies can complement each other
Reading Time: 5 minutes For “eye-in-the-sky” technology, the last three years have seen some stunning advances, especially in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellite imaging systems. Yet while both made headlines about the same time in 2011, both also had limited success on the farm, as is often the case when new technologies first get into […] Read more
The paperless farm
These search, share, and backup solutions will help you take the next step
Reading Time: 4 minutes Although predictions of a paperless office date back to the 1970s, paper use actually doubled between 1980 and 2000. However, since 2000 paper use has been on the decline. Not only will you save space, paper, and money, but proponents of paperlessness say you can also improve your productivity because you’ll be able to find, […] Read more
Plotting a course for 2014
This summer’s demo trials will focus on how to mesh traits and crop protection with precision ag technology for even better results
Reading Time: 5 minutes After a long winter and a slow start to spring, everyone is itching to hit the field, and the major seed and chemical companies are no exception. This year, though, they’re moving away from just looking at new active ingredients or new genetics in their R&D plots. Now, they’re also starting to show what their […] Read more
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