Since Ag Equipment Intelligence began formally tracking dealer consolidation in 2009, the number of big dealers has increased by more than 11%.

This collaboration aligns analytics with data sets that provide a single point for growers to visualize, analyze and make all farm management decisions.

The path some farmers take in their strip-tillage journey is to quickly adopt — and heavily invest in — RTK farm-by- the-inch technology. But for Tom Cotter at Cotter Farms near Austin, Minn., he would rather first get research need vs. want and properly develop prescriptions before going too deep, too fast.

TerrAvion and Cerra are now offering their first collaborative product available to growers.

The CropScan 3000H is a dedicated NIR analyzer that is mounted to a combine harvester in order to measure protein, oil and moisture in grains and oil seeds.

The Mahindra AgTech Center will complement the work being done in product development centers in India, Japan and Finland to create product solutions for farmers globally. The collaboration with Virginia Tech researchers is focused on technology projects to develop new generation farm equipment.

After introducing 19 new tools this year, Farmers Edge aims to release over 90 additional digital agronomic tools to enable data-driven decision making

Topping the list this month were two “From the Virtual Terminal” items, one on the new-to-North America diesel-electric farm tractor that will be available for sale in the last quarter of 2018 and another on the news of the potential mega-merger between Bayer and Monsanto and how that is heightening the debate over how farm data is collected and manipulated by companies.

Deere & Co. plans to construct a new 33,000-square-foot facility at the Iowa State University (ISU) Research Park as a design and test lab for agricultural spraying and applications technology.