By Shaun Haney Who spends less time at a desk than farmers. One of the advantages of farming is the ability to be outside in the elements growing crops and being stewards of the environment. Farming has become a much more complex career in the last 15 years where they need access to information and… Read More
Category: Technology
It continues to amaze me how fast and rapid technology is coming to agriculture to help farmers improve decision making. Since the advent of GPS the possibilities are continually proving to be endless and……very cool. With the ability to take vegetative index readings and then make decisions within 24 hours is truly interesting. What really… Read More
With the Blackberry Torch coming out in Canada very soon many smartphone using farmers are wondering they should be making the leap dater some of the struggles of the Storm and Storm 2. Even though touch screens are all the rage (think iphone) many people still like the idea of the actual keyboard. The concept… Read More
This week I was one of the fortunate people to be able to attend the AgChat Foundation Agvocacy 2.0 Training Conference in Chicago. This was a collection of the top agriculture social media people in North America. The results were amazing. This was a conference that was about more than just “how to use twitter… Read More
Many people look at services like Google from just the front end which is search. Google is really more about the back end application of data. The search engine allows them to collect infinite bytes of data so that they can make advertising revenue from the searcher. The better the data set that Google has… Read More
I was somewhat surprised a month ago when I spoke about social media at the North American Consulting School (NACS). The room was full of agriculture consultants whom were all very passionate about the industry. I was expecting a very like warm sort of response to my presentation with a maybe a few fellow self-described… Read More
Farmers have always been known for innovation on the farm. I can remember as a kid watching the Prairie Farm Report on Sundays with my parents. There has always been a proud heritage of trying to make sure that all machinery on the farm is somewhat “customized” to ensure the ultimate in usability. From turning… Read More
Many of you have heard me talk about the weekly agriculture get together on Twitter called #Agchat. This is where agriculturalists gather to discuss a weekly topic. The session is usually hosted by Michele Payn-Knoper and provides a great outlet for people to debate, collaborate and possibly even solve some agriculture issues and topics. The… Read More
What does it mean to farm? Why do it? For many, it is a question of passion. Passion for the lifestyle €“ the satisfaction of working the land; the freedom to be your own boss in a world that€™s not constricted by office walls and collared shirts; the day-to-day enjoyment of hard work and fresh… Read More
Nick Weber works at Monsanto in St. Louis and has become a great friend of mine on Twitter. Every week Nick interviews a new person in agriculture on twitter to help communicate the message of agriculture. He has interviewed people from the beef, crop and special crops sectors. I asked Nick in the following podcast… Read More