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What are you doing with my information?

Agronomy and the Law: Are you prepared to answer that question from a farming client?

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With the increasing development and usage of precision agriculture and technological advances in the agriculture industry, farmers are experiencing huge increases in productivity, efficiency and profitability. These innovations include the industry’s development of software applications to manage farm data, sensors on implements, drones, precision machinery and GPS technology, to name a few. With this rise […] Read more
Variability across a farm, or even within a field, can complicate data analysis for a producer.
Crops, Features

Dollars from data

Improving the quality of the quantifying can help improve bottom lines, nutrient management, yields and decision-making

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Unlocking the full strength of your data can turn small changes into bigger returns, and smart, localized insights can boost a farm’s bottom line, Brunel Sabourin of Antara Agronomy says. Sabourin was speaking to an audience of farmers and agronomists at St. Jean Farm Days, an agricultural event at St. Jean Baptiste, Man., about 60 […] Read more
A majority of ag-based companies in a recent survey reported experiencing at least one attempt at a ransomware attack.
Equipment, Machinery

How to prepare for and deal with a loss of farm data

Gathering the farm team together can help develop a backup plan

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Many of today’s farming operations rely on data more than most other small businesses. But what happens if a farm’s data is suddenly lost or compromised? How would that affect operations? Losing field data maps and other files, not to mention business and employee records, could become a big problem. In today’s global environment there […] Read more
fieldview drive 2.0
Crops, Equipment, Machinery

Bayer introduces FieldView Drive 2.0

Digital system gets a technology upgrade

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Bayer used the Western Canadian Crop Production show in Saskatoon as the venue to introduce Prairie farmers to its new FieldView Drive 2.0 digital system, which allows growers to monitor and record activities from different farm equipment types and brands. The updated “2.0” version offers what the company says is “enhanced processing power, increased data […] Read more
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Equipment, Machinery

Agco sees retrofit tech as best way to introduce autonomy

Recent disruptive technologies have seen growth start with aftermarket systems

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When auto-guidance appeared on the scene, grassroots demand from producers and aftermarket system suppliers was what pushed the technology forward. And as autonomy becomes the newest most disruptive technology in ag equipment, Agco’s senior vice-president and general manager for precision ag and digital, Seth Crawford, sees it becoming mainstream in the same way auto guidance […] Read more
How should growers and agronomists interpret the gigabytes, even terabytes, of ag data available?
Equipment, Features

How to deal with the farm data deluge

The growers have all the data, but do they necessarily use it?

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Glacier FarmMedia — The launch of the first GPS yield monitors altered the world of on-farm data collection. That was followed by variable-rate technology, precision planting and aerial/satellite imaging. Most growers have now been accumulating data for 20 years or longer — and many have resolved to keep that data in the hopes of finding […] Read more
A May 2022 RADARSAT Constellation Mission satellite image of fields in Manitoba, including many affected by flooding. Adoption of satellite imagery in agriculture is seen to have lagged compared to other sectors.
Equipment, Features

Farm focus needed for eyes in the sky

An ag expert with NASA talks about why on-farm adoption of satellite imagery has lagged

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Satellite imagery has potential to revolutionize agricultural management, but that isn’t likely to happen unless on-farm adoption rates increase, the head of a NASA-led consortium said during a recent event in Winnipeg. NASA Harvest executive director Alyssa Whitcraft told attendees at this year’s Canadian Crops Convention that use of satellite imagery has exploded in some […] Read more
The new 5670 planters from Kinze are available for the 2024 model year.
Equipment, Machinery

Kinze cranks up convenience on new 5670 Series planters

New models -- and a new digital agreement with John Deere for data integration

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In January Iowa-based Kinze manufacturing announced the debut of its new model 5670 line of pivot-fold, split-row planters, which it says offers more convenience and easy serviceability. The planters are available in 12/23-row and 16/31-row configurations that will work on both 15- and 30-inch row spacings. The pivot fold gives them a narrow width for […] Read more
Units such as these developed by a British firm, Small Robot Co., have already been put to work in per-plant weed control, in which an AI "advice engine" identifies which plants the robot can kill.
Equipment, Features, Machinery

Farmers need to be open to AI technology

Already a major force, artificial intelligence soon will be smarter than humans

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If Canadian farmers are waiting for the wave of artificial intelligence (AI) to hit the agriculture industry, they’re a bit late, according to a technology expert and consultant. It’s already here. And although he’s not a farmer himself, Walter Schwabe told producers attending the recent CrossRoads Conference in Calgary that if farmers don’t try to […] Read more

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