International Drone Conference Preview

The International Drone Conference & Expo, taking place in Las Vegas, September 9-11. Registration for InterDrone for trade and commercial drone builders, buyers and flyers and business owners is now open. One of the interesting components of the show is a drone flying area inside for vendors to show off their products. A number of ag focused companies are on …

Agren Introduces New Sustainability Solution

Agren, Inc., the leading provider of sustainability technology to agriculture, unveiled their three-tiered Sustainability Solution for ag retailers today. Agren’s Sustainability Solution provides agribusiness an immediate way to add sustainability to their current precision offering. The platform allows advisors to easily assist growers in their pursuit of more sustainable farming systems through a multi-tiered path from lead generation to full …

Iteris Announces General Availability of ClearAg

Iteris, Inc., a leader in providing information solutions to the transportation and agriculture markets, announced the general availability of ClearAg™, a decision support application for precision farming. The new ClearAg features, which are available internationally, are Crop Health Advisory Services that assist in defining, defending, and clarifying what is happening in farm fields. Crop Health Advisory Services feature new endpoints …

Agren Introduces New SoilCalculator

Agren, Inc., a leading provider of sustainability technology to agriculture, today released a new version of its SoilCalculator application to estimate erosion and its associated economic cost. SoilCalculator’s updated web interface provides quicker results than in the past. And, report outputs quantify the economics of lost production due to erosion under different management alternatives. The enhanced reporting also helps growers …

Agriculture Part of New FAA UAS Program

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta today announced new partnerships with industries, including agriculture, to explore the next steps in unmanned aircraft operations beyond the type of operations the agency proposed in the draft small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) rule it published in February. The Pathfinder Program includes partnerships with three companies, including Raleigh-based manufacturer PrecisionHawk, which will be …

Iteris Announces ClearAg Crop Protection Beta Testing Program

Iteris, Inc. (NYSE MKT: ITI), a leader in providing intelligent traffic management and weather information solutions, announced the opening of its ClearAg™ Crop Protection application programming interfaces (API) beta testing program. ClearAg Crop Protection APIs will provide leading agriculture retailers, manufacturers and growers access to the latest Iteris product capabilities for field-level analytics and visualization tools. The ClearAg Crop Protection …

Iteris & F4F Agriculture Sign MOU

Iteris, Inc., a leader in providing intelligent traffic management and weather information solutions, and F4F Agriculture, a global business dedicated to agricultural supply chain connectivity, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish a formal partnership. The MOU sets into motion a partnership strategy incorporating Iteris’ ClearAg™ with F4F’s integrated business solutions to provide differentiated precision ag technology for …

27th World LP Gas Forum

The 27th annual World LP Gas Forum, a global conference that is held in a different country every year, was held in Miami this year. Being in the United States this year, the Propane Education and Research Council (PERC) had a special presence to showcase new innovations for propane use in a variety of markets, including agriculture and on-road. 2014 …

Iteris Launches ClearPath Ag™ Select

Iteris, Inc. (NYSE MKT: ITI), a leader in providing intelligent traffic management and weather information solutions, has released ClearPath Ag™ Select, an expanded Application Programming Interface (API) for iOS, Android and other computing platforms that provides access to high-resolution weather information and mapping visualization for real-time decision support. ClearPath Ag Select™ is based on Iteris’ ClearPath Ag cloud platform, which …

iCropTrak 5: Farming App with On-Board Analytics

Cogent3D has released iCropTrak 5 – an “on-board” processing for mobile analytics farming application that is based on technology originally developed for the military. This technology is a bit different than many that are based in the “cloud” or on your desktop. iCropTrak version 5 performs all the processing needed on your iPad and in the field or wherever you …

AgWorks User Conference

AgWorks holds it annual User Conference in Davenport, IA. The conference brings customer users together to see new software features like the just announced AgOS. Here are interviews and photos you may feel free to use. More will be added when available. Interview with Greg Duhachek, AgWorks President: Greg Duhachek welcoming remarks here: Photos from the conference can be found …

Michigan Ag Groups Discuss Water Quality

Michigan agricultural leaders held a conference call Thursday morning to discuss algae bloom issues and proactive water quality efforts being undertaken by producers in the state. Taking part in the call were: Jim Byrum, president, Michigan Agri-Business Association Jim Zook, executive director, Michigan Corn Growers Ken Nobis, president, Michigan Milk Producers Association Mary Kelpinski, executive director, Michigan Pork Producers Dr. …

MapShots AgStudio Expo

Prior to the start of the 2014 InfoAg Expo, MapShots held the AgStudio Expo in St. Louis on July 28. the event included information and demonstrations of the AgStudio line of agronomic software, which includes AgStudio PRO, AgStudio FARM, AgStudio SELECT, AgStudio NOTES and AgStudio MAP. AgStudio Expo Photo Album Welcome to the MapShots AgStudio Expo – AgStudio Updates and …

GROWMARK Picks AgIntegrated for Info Platform

GROWMARK has teamed up with AgIntegrated (AGI) for the development of FS Advanced Information Services (FS AIS), a suite of tools to “connect data, analysis, insight, and application into one complete user experience for advanced field optimization.” GROWMARK manager of Agronomy Information Services Sid Parks explains more about FS AIS and the role of AgIntegrated in this interview.

UAV Flying High at Progress City

Ag UAV’s were flying around Progress City in Decatur, Illinois in the first of its kind Precision Aerial Ag Show held July 9-10. AG UAVs in the Air – FAA and UAVs – Hick Chick Chat with Central Illinois Farmers –