AGCO has named Eric Hansotia Senior Vice President, Global Harvesting and Advanced Technology Solutions.

Malcom "Mac" F. Moore has been appointed President and CEO of Digi?Star, LLC, a Wisconsin based manufacturer of advanced measuring systems and software used in the precision agriculture sector.

Mike Olson, sales manager for Ag Leader Technology, talks about Ag Leader's goals for their training program and how the program has developed over time. The Ag Leader Academy has expanded into the online space in the form of webinars and other distance learning opportunities.

Sean Arians, product marketing manager for Precision Planting, explains the features of the new FieldScripts field maps.

In an effort to free farmers from vendor-controlled data, Purdue University has launched ISOBlue, an open-source project that aims to provide farmers, dealers and others via smartphone, with easy access to agricultural data gathered by the industry-standard ISOBUS port located on tractors, harvesters and equipment.

Trimble Navigation Ltd., a location and positioning software company, built its new 125,000-square-foot building in Westminster, with space for as many as 570 employees, because it’s growing and also to demonstrate the company’s technology.

The end of June marks the next step in the sharing of smart farming technology.

A new program at Fox Valley Technical College aims to make farming as precise as possible and the school says the program is the first of its kind in the state.

Remote-controlled drones that can fly over a farmer's fields looking for patches of weeds the pesticide spraying didn't kill, or signs of those troublesome groundhogs.

As his HiLux ute bumped over hilly farmland outside Armidale, David Lamb kept a hand on the wheel and grabbed an iPad in the other to locate his herd of 50 ''smart'' cows.