The crop progress and benchmarking tool leverages crowd-sourced data to deliver planting and harvest insights to farmer-customers.

Although many precision farming specialists are in the thick of spring planting and logging long hours, the growing season can create a service void for precision teams prior to preparing for fall harvest. But even amidst the socioeconomic challenges confronting the ag industry, there are revenue opportunities dealers can pursue to bridge the seasonal gap for precision farming employees.

Here are the most popular items we’ve put up on PrecisionFarmingDealer.com from the month of April.

As someone who is immersed in legal issues related to data privacy and ownership, it should come as no surprise that I have a Google alert set up so that I get notified when a company uses the words “transparency” and “ag data” in a sentence.

CropX today released results of a multiyear study on the impact of soil sensor geometry and installation method on moisture readings and irrigation. The study found that spiral sensor designs deliver the best accuracy.

Lance Larsen, precision service coordinator with Agtegra cooperative, shares the company's game plan for securing and training precision interns this spring and summer amid other disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

College students around the U.S. have had their semesters abruptly turned upside down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of North Dakota State University (NDSU) precision ag students have returned to their home farms to complete their semester through online classwork.

For the most part, the Australian Farm Data Code follows the framework of North America’s Core Principles, focusing on clarity, portability, control, consent and sharing, and deletion rights. It is similarly an aspirational document, a set of guiding principles.

A single field sensor measures soil moisture at three depths, soil temperature, air temperature and air humidity.