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Kelly Robertson remembers his old bag phone well. Always in the cab of his pickup, the simple phone was a “tool of convenience” on his Benton, Illinois, farm.
But, that phone didn’t even have caller ID. It was simple. It had a single purpose.
Now, flash forward a couple decades. Robertson now has a state-of-the-art Android smartphone [...]
If you’re in agriculture, your business is feeding people. Take it seriously.
That’s the message being delivered by the animal health company, Elanco, to audiences around the world. They’ve developed a corporate mission to that effect, and this week they brought it to the World Pork Expo in Iowa. Director of sales Rob Aukerman was the [...]
A new mobile application has been released for grain commodity sellers who use iPhone and Android smart phone systems. The trading app, called DPPSM (Dynamic Pricing PlatformSM) grain desk, allows electronic buying and selling of corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum. The DPP grain desk application is free, and can be downloaded from the Farms Technology, [...]
Trimble announced today its new high-accuracy Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) correction technology, Trimble® RTX technology. Trimble RTX (Real-Time Extended) combines real-time data with innovative positioning and compression algorithms to deliver better than 4 centimeter (1.5 inch) repeatable accuracy with as little as one minute convergence in selected areas. The new technology utilizes real-time data from [...]
At certain points in the crop season, an idled sprayer can be a nightmare.
That’s just what can happen when you mix some combinations of herbicides, fungicides or insecticides in the wrong order. And, when it’s go-time, having a sprayer idled for even a few hours while the operator cleans out clogged lines or nozzles can [...]
Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission allowed a satellite company, LightSquared, to build a ground-based wireless network (for the 4G network) using its satellite frequencies. This new wireless network will operate in the same frequency band immediately adjacent to the GPS band.
And there in lies the problem because this wireless network is much more [...]
Oh dear, not only has climate change turned me into a reluctant green, but now I’m having to rethink my attitudes to organic farming. This is all the fault of a conversation with Peter Melchett and Ken Hayes from the Soil Association , who are both fervent advocates of organic agriculture (which Peter puts into [...]
The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU),Coimbatore Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Tindivanam in Villupuram District and the Salem branch of New Delhi based Dhanuka Agritech Limited organized a field day cum farmers training programme on grassy weeds management.
The training was on using Targa Super Herbicide (5 per cent EC Technology) on pulse crops.
Pulses, particularly such as [...]
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