Interest among farm equipment dealers in adding agronomic services to supplement precision support continues to grow. But finding the most direct, or effective entry point remains a mystery for many machinery retailers.

New integrated solutions provide remote machine health monitoring, detailed machine analytics, and instant notifications, enabling OEM Dealers to respond more efficiently to critical issues.

Agreements provide producers new options to seamlessly transfer data between Advanced Farming Systems (AFS) Connect and popular third-party providers.

Greetings from the SIMA show in Paris. One of the highlights of the event thus far has been an international dealer session, where retailers and distribution coordinators shared the state of their country’s equipment distribution model.

Bayer and the aerospace technology company Planetary Resources, based in Redmond, Wa., have signed a memorandum of understanding about the development of applications and products based on satellite images.

Agrible Inc. has been appointed to the interim board of a coalition to address the importance of big data privacy, security and transparency for growers and will work to promote security principles for farm data.

The path to leveraging precision farming information is a rocky one for Charles Augello at CY Farms near Elba, N.Y. Farming 5,500 acres of strip-tilled corn and soybeans as well as conventionally sown wheat, peas, cabbage and turf, CY Farms finds its fields, which average less that 25 acres in size, an obstacle to leveraging precision farming equipment and data.