By Ken Coles, FarmingSmarter.com In July I attended the Precision Ag Conference in Springfield, Illinois. I though in my first blog post I would cover my thoughts and observations at the conference. Day 1 Last week Brent Nicol and I attended the infoag, precision ag conference in Springfield, Illinois. (www.infoag.org). Not being a seasoned [...]
My Trip to InfoAg a Precision Ag Conference in Springfield, Illinois
July 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Controlled Traffic Farming Year 2 – Steve Laroque
July 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you talk about controlled traffic farming in Alberta, you’ll only come up with a handful of names of farmers involved in the practice. Steve Laroque is one of those farmers. We talked to Steve a while back about his involvement in controlled traffic farming and why he thought it had the potential to fit [...]
Morris Offers Input Control With a Mechanical Drive System
July 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
When you’re looking at controlling costs on the farm, the issue of overlapping with seed and fertilizer can be a big one. Especially in crops like canola, over seeding and over application of fertilizer can have a very negative impact on growth and development and end up being very costly for the farmer. Controlling that [...]
Who’s Steering Your Tractor and Why?
May 12, 2011 By 3 Comments
Blog post by John Guelly, BSc, P.Eng Wheat and Canola Farmer and Ag Engineer at Westlock, AB So we just ordered a new tractor, state of the art 2011 JD 8260R, complete with all the bells and whistles. We sold our old tractor to some neighbors and I asked them if they also were interested [...]
AgExpo2011 – Outback GPS Talks About the Benefits of Autosteer
March 9, 2011 By 1 Comment
GPS has become a major component of in-tractor technology. For many of the applications of GPS, once you have them you sometimes wonder how you did certain things before hand. Auto-steer is one of those GPS applications that has received lots of marketing and as time moves on more and more farmers are experiencing the [...]
The Possibilities of Precision Agriculture – Jay Bruggencate, Farmers Edge
February 8, 2011 By 2 Comments
No matter what industry you are involved in, striving for efficiency is critical for lowering costs. If you can gain efficiency and increase productivity you are really achieving a win win. Precision agriculture provides the opportunity to achieve both improved efficiency and increased productivity with the same application. Most of the early focus was on [...]
