FarmersEdge has announced a collaboration with The Weather Company, an IBM Business. Under the terms of the deal, Farmers Edge has integrated hyper-local forecasts from Weather's Forecasts on Demand (FoD) weather forecasting engine into its field-centric approach to predictive modeling.

GEOSYS will partner with Pessl Instruments GmbH to add local weather station data to its satellite imagery weather model-based offerings.

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.

The Assn. of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has elected the president and CEO of Trimble Navigation to the Board of Directors to fill an unexpired term.

This week, Ag Leader announced the AgFiniti cloud-based platform is expanding to make data more accessible and convenient to use for decision-making. These expanded capabilities are available through the new AgFiniti Essentials License (formerly AgFiniti File Transfer License) and AgFiniti Remote Support License.

The patent includes a method for estimating crop water use from satellite imagery and weather data and a scalable approach for using remote sensing technology to estimate crop water needs.

Tools like Advanced Nutrient Engine, Spray Smart, Drone Plan, and Field Story have been added to the yield estimates, fieldwork recommendations, and weather forecasts already provided by Morning Farm Report.

North Dakota State University will be using the Hermes 450 20-foot unmanned aircraft from Elbit Systems of America for research flights at the newly approved test site for precision ag testing.

Mary Kay Thatcher, Sr. Director with American Farm Bureau Federation and Jeremy Wilson with Crop IMS offer different perspectives on the value for both farmers and dealers of the newly formed Ag Data Coalition (ADC).

GiSC growers will now have the flexibility to view data on both the AgXchange and FarmersEdge platforms, bringing together the hardware and software with trusted advisors to facilitate the transition from intuition-based to data-based decision making on the farm.