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.
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.
Source: Alex Ronallo, FOX 11 News (Green Bay, Wis.)
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.
Holt AgriBusiness, a farm equipment dealer based in Texas, has donated 8 tractors and heavy equipment machinery for use at the Tarleton State Univ., Tarleton Agriculture Center, or College Farm, with an estimated in-kind value of $967,000.
Verdant Robotics showed off its new Sharpshooter at the FIRA Conference a few weeks ago. Dubbed the only robotic precision application system that aims before it shoots, Sharpshooter uses Bullseye Aim & Apply Technology.
The college offers an associate degree in Applied Science in Agriculture (60 credit hours). Students enrolled in this program may specialize in precision farming technology by selecting up to 15 credit hours in this area and agriculture business, sales and agronomy.
The college offers an AAS in Precision Agriculture and customized precision ag- related training for agricultural producers, insurance underwriters, equipment dealer and agricultural cooperative employees and others.
Offering training on Ag Leader, Trimble, Reichhardt, Norac and Integris Systems in twice yearly customer training events (spring/fall). Also offering individual training opportunities on any HTS Ag products and SMS software, year round.