AgGateway's Precision Agriculture Irrigation Leadership (PAIL) Project will hold a demonstration on June 11 at AgGateway's Mid-Year Meeting in Altoona, Iowa, to show equipment and software manufacturers how growers and irrigation consultants can access and send data in PAIL format as they develop and execute an irrigation plan. Full field testing is planned for late summer, and a proposed set of guidelines will be submitted in late November 2014.

Devised for industrialized farms, precision agriculture now has the potential to increase the yields of smaller acreage farms.

AgriGold has announced its collaboration with Kinze Manufacturing Inc. to conduct on-farm testing of the world's first electric multi-hybrid concept planter in Iowa.

Trimble recently announced it has acquired the assets of privately-held MAYBIM based in Provo, Utah. MAYBIM is a leader in providing 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) services to contractors with a focus on mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) contractors across the U.S. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Swarthy from a North Carolina summer sun, Travis Lassiter sat in the air-conditioned cab of a John Deere tractor, flipped a switch, revved the engine and tapped an icon on a touch screen.

The new service, Soil Information System (SIS) solution, provides farmers and their trusted advisors with in-depth 3-D soil data they can use to make more informed decisions about their crop production goals.

AgJunction dashed expectations of a rise in earnings this year, blaming "general weakness in the agriculture industry", evident in particularly in the large tractor and combine markets important for the group.

When it comes to online passwords, I've always tried to pick memorably unique words that have a personal meaning. Not that I feel any more insulated choosing some obscure, three-syllable adverb (which I haven't) because it seems that not a day goes by where I'm not asked to change my login because of a potential security threat.

Researchers with the Auburn University College of Agriculture and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station will soon be farming more efficiently, thanks to a deal with farm machinery manufacturer Case IH and KY-based H&R Agri-Power.

Tasmanian John Deere dealer Midland Tractors demonstrated the precision agriculture systems now available to farmers who subscribe to its new RTK (real-time kinetic) network that has been set up in Tasmania's northern Midlands and northeast.