Raven Industries product manager Gary Esselink details the consolidated features of the company's new RS1 system. The platform combines auto-steer, GPS, and Raven's Slingshot into one unit for navigation.

Jason Gahimer with Beck's Hybrids, explains the motivation and collaborative effort to design a multi-row width, multi-hybrid concept planter. Industry partners in the project included Beck's, Harvest International, Precision Planting, Yetter Mfg., SureFire Ag Systems and Schlipf Precision Ag.

In this Precision Farming Dealer podcast, brought to you by Farmers Edge, we are joined by several manufacturers to find out how each of them define the Internet of Things within their respective company, along with an outlook on the timeline and target markets.

For the first time, Dawn Equipment Co., unveiled its new Gen 5 Pluribus row unit, which features row-by-row down pressure, an equalizer gauge wheel arm setup and redesigned guards which help flow soil through the unit, while keeping it the row.

Walking the aisles at this year’s Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill., there were the usual new equipment innovations on display. But it’s the behind-the-scenes developments that also caught my attention, specifically how precision manufacturers are integrating more automation and connectivity into their products.

Kinze Mfg. displayed an advanced, patent pending prototype 60 foot planter at the 2017 Farm Progress Show offering improved safety and functionality for farmers with large field operations. 

Anticipation mixed with a little anxiety as to how soon autonomous vehicles will be roaming farm fields in North America continues to build. Some experts and manufacturers forecast that within the next 3 years, the autonomous industry will begin to take shape in agriculture.

Precision Farming Dealer editors ran into Dale Weens of SprayTest Controls to learn more about Remote Boom Control, a new unit introduced at the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa.

Anson Boak, Marketing Manager of Salford Group, takes a closer look at the Metering System on the new ST10.

At the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa, Precision Farming Dealer editors caught up with Nick Langerock of Raven industries to talk about the Raven Rate Control Module.