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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?

By Kalen Oram, Rochelle Blocka April 26, 2025

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

Features

Software add-on helps farmers measure their farm’s sustainability metrics

AgExpert’s new feature helps measure environmental impacts in an easy-to-understand format

By Don Norman March 18, 2025

A new feature in Farm Credit Canada’s FCC AgExpert software suite aims to help farmers track and manage sustainability metrics more easily.

Tom Wolf discusses spot sprayers during the Crop Production Show in Saskatoon.

Equipment, Machinery

Moving spot spraying forward means building algorithms

Advanced spraying systems have benefits, but also have costs a farmer must consider

By Janelle Rudolph March 9, 2025

Glacier FarmMedia — Spot spraying isn’t a new idea, and the equipment capable of selective application has been around for decades — but the technology that supports this approach is advancing. Tom Wolf, an application specialist with Agrimetrix Research and Training and Sprayers101, recently shared some of the new research, technology developments and application techniques […] 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?

By Ralph Pearce May 22, 2024

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

Mailed cheques are now being intercepted by fraudsters and duplicated but made out to new payees.

Equipment, Features

Fraudsters bringing bigger phish to farms

An ATB rep suggests the time has come for you to stop writing physical cheques

By Doug Ferguson March 1, 2024

Glacier FarmMedia — The time has come for you to step up your cybersecurity against rising levels of financial fraud that have cost some producers tens of thousands of dollars. “It’s unbelievable the amount of cases that have come through our organization in the last year and a half,” says Jonathan Neutens, head of agriculture […] Read more

A Massey Ferguson MF 5S series tractor. (Agcocorp.com)

Crops, Machinery

Agco, Kubota sign onto U.S. right-to-repair pledge

Firms join Deere, CNH in pacts with Farm Bureau

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News May 26, 2023

Two more major ag equipment makers have signed onto a framework that would grant farmers and independent repair shops in the United States reasonable access to the means to repair their machines. The Washington, D.C.-based American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) on Monday announced it had reached memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with equipment firms Agco and […] Read more

File photo of a John Deere X9 combine. (Deere.ca)

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

American Farm Bureau, Deere sign ‘right to repair’ memo

MOU to seek private-sector solutions

By GFM Network News January 9, 2023

Chicago | Reuters — The American Farm Bureau Federation and machinery manufacturer Deere and Co. signed a memorandum of understanding on Sunday that ensures farmers have the right to repair their own farm equipment or go to an independent technician. As the agriculture sector accelerates its adoption of technology, the reliance on high-tech machinery such […] Read more

Launch Pad is an easy-to-use precision ag app.

Features

Take the guesswork out of field operations

Launch Pad is an interactive software tool that optimizes equipment movement

By Mark Halsall December 29, 2022

Harvest is a hectic time on any farm, but for operations requiring large amounts of machinery and manpower to bring in the crops before killing frosts, the logistics can be particularly daunting. For Garrett Johner, who farms 35,000 acres of canola, durum and green peas near Macoun, Sask., the solution was a precision ag app […] Read more

John Deere’s 8R autonomous tractor is pictured at Jensen Test Farm at Bondurant, Iowa, just northeast of Des Moines, on April 28, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Bianca Flowers)

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

Deere tapping into Apple-like tech model to drive revenue

'Hopefully the costs will be paid back in the long run'

By GFM Network News May 26, 2022

Bondurant, Iowa | Reuters — Deere and Co. has sold its tractors and other equipment to farmers for decades, but the world’s largest agriculture machinery manufacturer is tearing a page from the technology world’s playbook — combining cutting-edge hardware with software and subscription models to drive revenue growth. In a world with a dwindling number […] Read more

Crops, Machinery

Telus, Rabobank ag arms buy into farm data aggregator

Companies join in on deal for Minneapolis-based Conservis

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News July 19, 2021

The agriculture arms of one of Canada’s major telecoms providers and a major Dutch bank and financial services firm are taking a stake in a tech firm in the business of gathering on-farm data into a single window. Telus Agriculture and Rabo AgriFinance, which is headquartered in St. Louis and serves U.S. farm customers, announced […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

GFM Network News