Mixing red, green and blue equipment in a precision farming system can create a rainbow of headaches, but Jamie Shenk, operations manager at Beauregard Farms, thinks he has found a good pain reliever: an independent precision farming supplier.
Glenn Dye has an interesting perspective on precision farming equipment. Before he began farming full-time two years ago, he sold and serviced precision farming equipment for Greenline Service Corp., a John Deere dealership in Fredericksburg, Va.
Editor’s Note: While we usually talk to a production farmer for this feature in PFD, for this issue we spoke with a researcher who is developing equipment that works in concert with specific hybrid seeds, utilizing test plots as his laboratory.
“Precision farming is less about growing more crops and more about saving inputs on areas that don’t need them or won’t increase your profitability,” says Canadian farmer Jim Wickett.
It’s all about precision technology for Ryan Christopherson, who farms several thousand acres near Clarkfield, Minn. His row-crop mix is 75% corn and 25% soybeans, and he uses a wide variety of precision farming equipment across his fields.
While most growers strategize how to get season-long weed control, Joel Armistead has strategized as much to figure out how he can get the very most from his precision farming systems.
Donn Branton put the cart a little before the horse in the precision department. He was grid sampling and doing soil electric conductivity tests on his rocky, hilly acres before he or his custom applicators even had the equipment to do anything with the results.
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.