Hemisphere GNSS Inc. introduced its new OEM toolkit for high-precision GNSS-based guidance and machine control systems for precision agriculture.

In this episode of the Precision Farming Dealer podcast, brought to you by Farmers Edge, we welcome Jed Bengston, vice president of sales and marketing with Torgerson’s, to discuss how the dealership transitioned in to agronomic offerings and making profit more predictable for customers.

The Myers began their precision farming journey in 1996 when they outfitted their 1983 Gleaner L3 combine with a yield monitor. That’s when Bill Myers, who farms with his son, John, daughter, Rita, and brothers, Robert, and Ivan Jr., began to understand what adjusting crop inputs could do for their bottom line.

In a single flight, visual-band RGB, near-infrared (NIR) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data is simultaneously captured, and then interpreted in the field to quickly detect problem areas and respond with action.

Under the agreement, senseFly and its global network of distributors can distribute 6 month subscriptions of the MicaSense Atlas Pro plan, alongside any senseFly drone solution featuring the Parrot Sequoia, or separately on-demand.

An industry-wide effort to bring transparency to ag technology contracts is gaining momentum with the launch of a new website: agdatatransparent.com.

A cooperative of growers and an agricultural data non-profit have agreed to combine their technology platforms and create a vital resource for data-driven agriculture – a neutral, secure and private data storage repository controlled by growers. The combined platforms will be known as AgXchange and will be an independent data repository commercially available through the Growers Ag Data Cooperative (GADC) where producers can control, store, view and share their farm data assets.

The top article this month was on Case IH's introduction of new Advanced Farming Systems (AFS). Creating sales potential with cellular RTK, as opposed to tower-based RTK, was also at the top of the list, as well as a blog post on retaining qualified specialists.

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

The new tool provides location-based intelligence to help users identify growers, crops, acres and field locations within a farm enterprise, and be able to do it “on the fly.”