Clint Cowden, ag science and technology instructor for West Hills Community College in Coalinga, Calif., talks about how the attitudes of incoming students of precision farming have changed in the ten years he has been at the school.
The National Centre for Precision Farming (NCPF) which is expected to give agriculture a boost in engineering was launched at the House of Commons this week.
Clint Cowden, ag science and technology instructor for West Hills Community College in Coalinga, Calif., talks about the challenges the modern farmer faces as he encounters a growing amount of data collected in various formats by various machines.
Slingshot has announced the launch of a new software application called OnSite from AgIntegrated that will utilize the Slingshot API. The Slingshot API, or Application Programming Interface, is a software-to-software interface that is invisible to the end-user providing a way for one software system to communicate with another.
After 11 years as a precision ag specialist at Kunau Implement in DeWitt, Iowa, Rodney Bratthauer has watched precision ag evolve from “hocus pocus” to a set of necessary management tools in the minds of area farmers.
The tractor steers itself on Rob Ruwoldt's grain farm in Victoria's Mallee, down exactly the same designated "traffic" row between the canola and wheat crops in each paddock every time.
After almost two decades of making devices that link satellite Global Positioning Systems with tractors, planters, sprayers and combines, Ames-based Ag Leader is taking precision agriculture underground.
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.