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Sponsor needed for mental health connection

By Lee Hart May 6, 2020

As Rob Saik and Patrick Walther have developed the AGvisorPro service to connect farmers with a wide range of experts, one important service gap needing industry support is mental health consulting. Saik, co-founder and CEO of AGvisorPro, says mental health services is one area of advice and counselling he’d like to make available to farmers […] Read more

The range and quality of data and information coming from machines continues to improve and offer value to producers, according to John Deere.

Machinery

Telematics offers value to owners: Deere

AI and machine learning will improve data quality, reduce downtime

By Scott Garvey March 3, 2020

As time goes by, the usefulness of the wireless digital technology built into today’s farm machinery is becoming increasingly apparent to producers, according to Ed Olson, senior product lead for JD Link strategy, at John Deere. “Some of the tools are maturing to the point that the value is pretty obvious,” he said when speaking […] Read more

This is the type of information generated by the Fieldprint platform about an individual farmer’s field.

Features, Markets

Telling the buyers what they want to know

The Field to Market Fieldprint Calculator puts a number on our ag sustainability

By Angela Lovell February 27, 2020

With consumers becoming more interested in sustainable agriculture and the food industry looking for sustainable inputs, Canadian organizations came together to make sure our crop industry is ready to respond, with firm answers. “In particular, this group was interested in advancing outcomes-based metrics, where we could measure things like greenhouse gas emissions, soil carbon, land […] Read more

A drone equipped with a camera can be used to check remote watering systems, scan fencelines or check gates.

Columns, Hart Attacks

Drones. How did we farm without them?

Hart Attacks: Drone school explained how flying cameras can change the cattle business

By Lee Hart December 11, 2019

I know I shouldn’t be amazed by anything that has to do with new technology, but it seems I always am. I recently spent part of a day at a central Alberta drone school —primarily geared to beef producers — and came away thinking it just never ends. So there I was in a community […] Read more

In early 2018 John Deere marked the 25th anniversary of its high-tech Intelligent Solutions Group at the same time it opened this new building to house much of those operations at Des Moines, Iowa.

Equipment, Machinery

John Deere marks 25 years of digital technology

Deere's ISG’s ultramodern facility designed to keep software development on pace

By Scott Garvey October 30, 2019

In a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa, John Deere has built a new home for its Integrated Solutions Group (ISG) tech specialists that is as unique in its design as software once was to farm machines. The new ultramodern facility is designed to help engineers and scientists collaborate and reach innovative solutions in the shortest […] Read more

AGCO Connect telematics’ offering is compatible with both IOS and Android systems.

Equipment, Machinery

AGCO updates its digital product with “Connect”

AGCO Connect offers enhanced features across all brand lines

By Scott Garvey October 16, 2019

It’s our next-generation telemetry solution. It’s going to provide a web and mobile interface for our dealers and customers,” said Mike Uilk, AGCO Fuse product specialist in late June. “It’s mobile and web based for IOS and Android.” This new telemetry solution, which the company is just rolling out, offers the company’s best-yet suite of […] Read more

General, Machinery, Markets

Ag sector growth will take investments in skills, tech now: RBC

By Glacier FarmMedia staff, GFM Network News August 28, 2019

One of Canada’s big six banks bets the agriculture sector’s gross domestic product could rise by nearly 60 per cent over the next decade if it were to have enough people, capital and access to new technology where ag lives. A report released by RBC on Tuesday titled “Farmer 4.0” estimates Canadian ag GDP could […] Read more

The “Spornado” collects windborne disease spores such as fusarium head blight and sclerotinia in the field, to provide farmers with a heads up on potential problems.

Crops, Features

Spornado could give heads up on disease

Collecting airborne disease spores could offer growers an early warning

By Lee Hart April 5, 2019

An Alberta seed testing company has crop disease monitoring technology in the works that could provide some of the answers as suggested in the old Bob Dylan song about what’s “Blowin’ in The Wind.” 20/20 Seed Labs, based in Nisku, just south of Edmonton, is continuing its field testing in 2019 using fairly simple-looking equipment to collect the windborne disease spores such […] Read more

We need to be careful and smart about what we believe, what we share and what we put into practice in our lives and on our farms.

Columns

Toban Dyck: Telling the facts from the falsehoods

It’s never been harder to tell truth from fiction — on the internet or on the farm

By Toban Dyck March 25, 2019

Leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, the Russian Institute allegedly began shifting its focus from distributing propaganda in the Ukraine to taking an active role in galvanizing anti-Hillary Clinton sentiment across the United States. It was last year sometime when my wife, Jamie, suggested I listed to the Radiolab podcast entitled “The Curious Case […] Read more

Xarvio’s scouting app identifies weeds in the field using photo recognition software and artificial intelligence.

Crops, Features

New crop scouting tool for your pocket

A new app from Bayer’s digital farming company, Xarvio, puts the smart in smartphone

By Lisa Guenther October 23, 2018

Wondering which disease is damaging your crop or which weed is growing in your field? There’s an app for that. “Xarvio is a digital farming company with the ambition to deliver a healthy field,” said Warren Bills, business development manager. Xarvio was launched and owned by Bayer. BASF recently acquired the company as one of […] Read more

U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

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