The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto, announced the acquisition of VitalFields, a European farm management software company based in Tallinn, Estonia.

Variable-rate seeding, or VRS, is the practice of dynamically adjusting the amount of seeds planted in areas of fields based on location-specific information on fertility and other factors that affect yield.

Topcon Agriculture and SDF plan to enter into a non-exclusive long-term partnership agreement. This latest arrangement of Topcon with a major OEM is designed to strengthen both positions in the global markets for agriculture machines and precision farming.

In this episode of the Precision Farming Dealer podcast, brought to you by Farmers Edge, Jason Pennycook, precision specialist with Johnson Tractor, shares his experience-based insight for developing a profitable precision service plan to include pricing, training and renewals.

The Des Moines Register reports attorneys for Kinze filed motions asking a federal judge to stop John Deere from trying to access a wide variety of internal documents about the Williamsburg company's planting equipment business, including marketing strategies, sales data and research and development plans.

Ohio State University Extension explains how to choose between grid and zone soil sampling for farmers' operations and how to use them.

The latest software release for Operations Center, along with new mobile apps, give producers a more complete view of a farm operation — whether in the office or on the go.

The Trimble Ready configuration on the Lexion combines interfaces with the Claas CANBUS architecture to enable GNSS steering through the Claas guidance infrastructure.

Trimble announced that it is consolidating three of its agriculture software products — Connected Farm, Farm Works Software and Agri-Data solutions — into one farm data management platform called Trimble Ag Software.