CropX, provider of the world’s most advanced adaptive irrigation service, announced that global leaders in the sensor manufacturing space—Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC) and the Flex technology accelerator, Lab IX—have invested in the company. Already serving 20 top farms across the United States, CropX plans to use the strategic partnerships to accelerate product development and rapidly expand market adoption. …
Re-designed AgWired App Now Available for iOS
ZimmComm New Media, LLC announces a newly updated version of its popular AgWired App for iOS (iPhone and iPad). The new version has been built on a platform that will allow easy changes and new application opportunities. It is available now in the iTunes store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/agwired/id382820712?mt=8. “For the AgNerds out there, we have built a new backend on the app …
Mavrx Precision Tools Now Available Through Answer Tech
WinField has added Mavrx® to its Answer Tech™ portal, giving farmers and their retail partners the ability to more accurately analyze fields in-season and make timely crop input decisions. Mavrx is a total field awareness system that uses aerial imagery and data analysis to provide actionable insights to the global agriculture industry. Its suite of precision tools combines ultra-high-resolution (UHR) …
2015 InfoAg Conference
The 2015 InfoAg celebrated 20 years for the premier precision agriculture conference. The event was held for the second year at Union Station in St. Louis July 28-30 and featured five tracks of concurrent sessions with two tracks repeating to allow attendees to hear more of the presentations while offering a wide variety of topics. 2015 InfoAg Conference Photo Album …
iCropTrak Prepares for InfoAg Conference
The InfoAg Conference is only four weeks away and companies like iCropTrak are getting excited to showcase their products to a record setting crowd in St. Louis, July 28-30. In this interview, Aaron Hutchinson of iCropTrak talks about what’s new and what we can expect to see when visiting the company during InfoAg. iCropTrak Getting Ready for InfoAg Conference –
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 …
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 …
Solvay Novecare & Eco Agro Resources Join Forces
Solvay’s global business unit Novecare announced that it will team up with US-based Eco Agro Resources to develop market and product portfolio opportunities in North and South America. The partnership is part of larger discussions aimed at leveraging the companies’ combined enhanced efficiency fertilizer products (EEFs) for agricultural distributors and customers. The partnership was announced today at the start of …
Eco Agro Resources Teams with Ekompany
US-based Eco Agro Resources announced a commercial agreement expanding its product range to include Ekote, a line of eco-friendly controlled-release fertilizers by Ekompany. Ekompany based in the Netherlands and Eco Agro Resources of the United States will work together leveraging the latest technology of both companies to bring innovative products to agriculture and horticulture markets in North America. Andrew Semple, …
Iteris Releases ClearAg Prime
Iteris, Inc., a leader in providing intelligent traffic management and weather information solutions, has released ClearAg™ Prime, the latest in a series of application programming interfaces (API) that can be readily integrated with third-party agricultural software applications. ClearAg Prime provides real-time access to Iteris’ cloud-based ClearAg data analysis platform, which combines the power of big data and analytics with the …
SST Software Seeing More Variable Rate Seeding
Low corn prices are causing farmers to take a hard look at what new technologies will optimize inputs while minimizing costs. As farmers begin to plan for the 2015 season, SST Software is seeing an increased interest in variable rate planting recommendations. SST’s decision support technologies are used by ag service providers around the world to provide precision ag services …
Develop with Deere
The 2014 Develop with Deere conference brings together dealers, independent agricultural software application developers and John Deere staff primarily from their Intelligent Solutions Group. Develop with Deere Photo Album Develop with Deere Underway – Farmobile Will Let Farmers Sell Data – Deere Partners Look to Lower Costs, Raise Integrations – Develop with Deere Attendees Find Great Networking – Relationships Develop …
2014 CTIC Conservation in Action Tour
The Conservation Technology Information Center held its annual Conservation in Action Tour October 14-15 in the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA). The tour provided an in-depth look at the unique story of the approximately 700,000-acre EAA, located south of Lake Okeechobee in Florida. Lettuce, sugar cane and owls were just a few of the crops and creatures seen on the tour …
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 …
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.