To explore their passion for agriculture, Kyle Schmit and two of his high school classmates founded Precision Point LLC, a precision farming product and services retailer in 2014 in Osmond, Neb. Collaborating with Farmers Business Network (FBN) this past March has taken their mission to help farmers do more with less and maximize precision practices on their operation to the next level.

As custom harvesters make their way across the United States and Canada this summer, I keep wondering what happens to all that yield data these machines are collecting.

Farmers and ranchers want to control the information their equipment collects every time it passes through a field, a survey released today by the American Farm Bureau Federation shows. Farmers also believe that creating a cooperative-style central repository for their data is the best way to enhance its security and maximize its value.

Independent Data Management's MyAgData acreage reporting service has received the first Ag Data Transparent seal through successful completion of the Ag Data Transparency Evaluator contract review program.

aWhere will now provide agricultural weather data and agronomic modeling services to MyAgCentral, a cloud based data management platform based on DN2K's core platform technology.