December 5, 2012 — Professor Simon Blackmore, head of engineering at Harper Adams University College (Newport, UK), addressed the issues facing agricultural engineering during an inaugural lecture, recently.

Jerkins Creative Consulting, in Benton, Ill., has announced a new webinar series for dealers, "Precision Farming: Positioning Your Dealership." The five-part webinar will begin January 15, 2013 at 10:00 AM and is open to the first 30 dealerships to sign up.

One of my favorite parts of this job is getting to shake the hand of each precision farming dealer, specialist or technician that I meet.

Darin Kennelly, precision farming specialist for Birkey's Farm Stores, talks about telematics and the current level of interest amongst customers in the product category. He also discusses how dealers can present value in the technology to customers, by way of decreased down time for their fleet.

We ride along with Tim Heins, product manager in Raven's Applied Technology Division, in a John Deere combine equipped with Raven's Cruizer II guidance system and SmarTrax.

Trent Dorrance, Sales Manager, Echelon Ag announced that Jill Debenham has been hired for the position of Precision Agriculture Account Manager for Echelon Ag.

Plan for profitable growth driven by agriculture focus, streamlined operations and market driven innovation.

On more than one occasion, I’ve been told by people wiser than me not to be somebody I am not.

A new cloud-based online service designed to bridge the gap between popular farm management software and reporting requirements for crop insurance, USDA and other government entities has been introduced by Independent Data Management, LLC.

Resource magazine and the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers have announced the winners of the 2013 AE50 awards.