Wireless technology has been making its way into almost every aspect of life and continues to make its way into modern seeding equipment. Jordan Henderson, territory sales manager for Bourgault Industries, explains how the company has spent the last five years designing the new Bourgault Intelligent Control (BiC) seed controller. The controller has been used... Read More
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Harvest efficiency is essential when it's time to get the crop in, but combine wheel slip on wet or uneven terrain or inconsistent speed adjustments can cost growers time and money. John Deere's ground speed cameras can compensate for this by detecting the crop 28 feet ahead of the combine to constantly measure crop height... Read More
Google and ChatGPT have been giving farmers the answers to many of their agronomy questions for a while now. Artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as ChatGPT use information that is publicly available on the internet to answer questions that are typed into the prompt. The better the prompt, the better answers a person is likely... Read More
Farmers got their first look at new John Deere predictive ground speed automation harvesting technology this fall and they like what they've seen, reports Bergen Nelson, Deere’s go-to-market manager for harvesting equipment. Earlier this year, the company rolled out both predictive ground speed automation and harvest settings automation on its model year 2025 S7 combines.... Read More
Corteva Agriscience has announced its intentions to take a bold step into the hybrid wheat market. After decades of tantalizing potential, many industry players have thrown in the towel on the promise of hybrid winter wheat, but Corteva says its new proprietary hybrid system marks a "crucial step-change" and is expected to deliver a "new... Read More
It can be easy to be impressed by slick new technology — the lights and displays, read outs and even images. With technology comes data, and it's actually the data collected that really proves a tech's worth. It's crucial, then, that tech adopters understand the data analysis portion of ag tech, but this isn't always... Read More
The Canadian Forage and Grassland Association (CFGA) is set to launch a province-specific, online Habitat and Biodiversity Assessment Tool (HBAT). The $1.2-million project, which began in 2020 with financial support from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) as part of the Canada Nature Fund, was completed in collaboration with national and provincial stakeholder committees, governments,... Read More
Kaylie Krys did not think she would one day end up teaching at the college that kicked off her post-secondary education. Through practicing public speaking and judging with both 4-H and at the club level in college, Krys has combined her interest in rangeland management and livestock with new technology and leveraged both into a... Read More
A new AI- powered app by Brilliant Harvest is working to fill the communication gap that younger generation-led farm businesses are looking for. Remi Schmaltz, CEO of Brilliant Harvest, explains that the customizable virtual help desk fills another really important gap, too — that of readily available expertise even when staff aren't on the clock.... Read More
Two players in the precision ag space have teamed up to create what the collaborators are billing as a new leader in soil health digitization for advanced crop management and climate sustainability. EarthOptics and Pattern Ag have joined forced to deliver farmers services that combine data on pest and disease detection, fertilization, and tillage prescriptions... Read More