Online registration is now open for the American Farm Bureau Federation's 96th Annual Convention and IDEAg Trade Show, which will be held Jan. 10-14, 2015, in San Diego.

Manufacturer Digi-Star has introduced WeighLog for wheel, telescopic and skidsteer loaders. This system provides a user-friendly on-board weighing system that can be used for loading, check weighing and simple batching.

On October 29, the United Launch Alliance will be sending an Atlas V 401 rocket carrying the GPS IIF-8 satellite into space, which will set new unit into semi-synchronous circular orbit around Earth. The mission, conducted for the U.S. Air Force, will launch from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

A survey by the American Farm Bureau Federation shows more farmers are reaping the benefits of the latest agricultural technologies, but most remain wary of risks involved with big data collection.

After spending two years learning about Georgia’s largest industry and developing leadership skills, the inaugural class of Advancing Georgia’s Leaders in Agriculture and Forestry has graduated from the program.

PrecisionHawk announced earlier this week that they have joined the Small UAV Coalition to help pave the way for commercial, philanthropic, and civil use of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the United States and abroad. Chief among the organization's goals is to advance a regulatory environment that will support safe, reliable, and timely operation of small UAVs.

Ask your precision technology provider these questions to ensure you know your data is secure.

On most lettuce farms, workers weave between rows to cull extra heads of lettuce crowding out the healthiest plants. The practice, called thinning, is labor-intensive and a labor shortage has made it difficult to find workers for the task.

The word “drone” brings to mind images of unmanned aerial vehicles spying on enemies and dropping explosives, but that is only one facet of their many capabilities.