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Flying drone and green wheat field
Features, Machinery

PHOTOS: Do it with drones

Harvest timing, fertilizer application, elevation mapping — drones are putting new information in farmers’ hands

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Farmers are buying drones, but often they can’t use the technology to its full potential, says Matt Johnnson. And new drone operators need to research the options available and safety requirements before flying, he adds. Johnson owns M3 Aerial Productions, based in Winnipeg. A math teacher by profession, he started using drones for real estate […] Read more
The Grain Moisture App.
Crops, Features

New grain moisture app

Home-grown app simplifies on-farm grain moisture testing

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My husband Jeff and I farm near Wawanesa, Manitoba. We are both interested in technology, and improving things on the farm. I had been tossing around the idea of learning to program with Apple products. While we were discussing the idea, Jeff mentioned an app that he would like: something that could replace all of […] Read more
Crops, Features

Watching the plants all season

The new way to scout: photos of your crop's progress through the growing season

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I’m working on a new project,” Franck Groeneweg says. “I’ve been working with aerial imagery. There’s a lot of drone excitement out there, but to get it done, I am using a regular fixed wing plane on my farm.” Groeneweg is flying his plane over farmland and using attached cameras to take aerial pictures of […] Read more
Ford and drone developer DJI are looking to integrate UAV control into a pickup’s digital system for a variety of future applications, including agriculture.
Machinery

A Ford F150 sync’d to your UAV?

Ford issues a new “Drone-to-vehicle developer challenge” to software engineers

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James Bond has his special Aston Martin car complete with ejection seat and all kinds of high-tech gizmos. If Ford has its way, farmers may soon have an F150 pickup at their disposal that would make Q, Bond’s car creator, proud. Ford has been working with drone developer DJI and the two companies have launched […] Read more
VIDEO: Driverless tractors and open-source software
Crops, News

VIDEO: Driverless tractors and open-source software

Reimer Robotics takes first prize in Manitoba Ag Days Inventors' Showcase

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Matthew Reimer was as surprised as anyone when he was awarded first prize for his driverless tractor system at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon on Jan. 20, but his invention is worthy of the title. The Inventors’ Showcase winner, and president of Reimer Robotics, has built a system to move tractors – driverless no less, with […] Read more
John Deere introduces TruSet adjustment feature to its 2730 Combination Ripper.
Machinery

John Deere introduces TruSet on its 2730 Ripper

New feature allows implement adjustment on the go, right from the tractor cab

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John Deere has bumped up the technology level on its 2730 Combination Ripper by allowing operators to make tillage adjustments on the fly, right from the brand’s GreenStar 3 2630 in-cab display. Want to adjust packing pressure on the rolling baskets or work a little shallower on hilltops? Then just make the adjustment on the […] Read more
New Holland upgrades its telematics offering
Machinery

New Holland upgrades its telematics offering

NH has expanded the features available through its PLM Connect telematics system

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New Holland has announced some major upgrades to its PLM Connect telematics system, which are scheduled to come into affect this spring. Customers will now be able to wirelessly transfer a variety of real-time data between machines and the farm office via the cloud-based PLM Connect portal. The upgraded PLM Connect features will allow machines […] Read more
canola crop on a computer screen
Columns, Crops

Technology brings the world to your office

With Google Earth, visit the whole planet from the comfort of your home

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In my youth we pounded a lot of pavement both summer and winter. Winter was for short courses and other extension events and summer was for research — soil fertility and drilling holes all over for soil salinity work. It is my great pleasure to have driven every mile of every Saskatchewan highway in the […] Read more
ISOBUS product label
Machinery

ISOBUS compatibility sees improvement under AEF system

Machines using the new communications standard are designed to 'play nice'

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In 2008 engineers at the major manufacturers and a few other brands decided to work together to create a standard for tractor-implement digital compatibility. That led to the creation of the Agricultural Industry Electronics Foundation (AEF), which now has over 170 member companies and groups. The ultimate goal of that organization was to create a […] Read more
farmer in a tractor cab
Columns, Crops

Who’s handling your farm data? Keep an eye on this U.S. model

Data is becoming an industry. Whether you like it or not, you’re part of it


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We talk about environmental stewardship, land stewardship and animal stewardship in agriculture, but there’s not a lot of discussion about data stewardship. And that’s too bad because there are some good reasons to have control over who accesses our data. I’m really talking about Big Data here — the move by businesses to collect mountains of data […] Read more

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