Eye in the sky 

By: Jeff Ryan

Cropcam is an unmanned aerial vehicle with a GPS-guided autopilot that is a used to take high-resolution digital aerial images. It is launched by hand...

Hooked on Smart 

By: By Jodie Wehrspann

Will Your next farm implement be smarter than you? Will it be a better driver? Maybe. Electronics are increasingly common on planters, sprayers and other...

Leveling the field 

By: By David Hest

Automated Spray boom height control systems can't literally level your fields, but as they become more sophisticated, you might begin to wonder. In addition...

Cash from carbon 

By: By Mark Moore

Tom Recker doesn't consider himself on the cutting edge. But this Alta Vista, IA, producer already has two years of experience in the emerging carbon...

New kids on the Block 

By: by Harlen Persinger

Settling for Average just doesn't fit in the farm equipment business anymore. As state-of-the-art facilities pop up in the countryside these days, companies...

What's New From NFMS 

By: By Karen McMahon and Mike Boyatt

Heavy-duty chisel BRILLION REBUILT its popular coulter chisel and introduced it as the new Soil Builder II. It is equipped with large cutting coulters...

Air-delivered seed system 

Kinze's new 3660 SDS Twin-Line planter will be ready for planting in 2009. The planter features an air-delivery system for transferring seed from the central hopper to individual row units instead of a mechanical system...

Planter manager 

A planter operator now has more real-time planting information with Precision Planting¹s new 20/20 SeedSense system. SeedSense lets the operator see on-the-go population, singulation,...

TALK 

Google maps In reviewing the article by David Hest titled Google Maps for the Farm in the January 2008 issue, pages 64 to 66, I am interested in knowing...

Standard auto-boom control 

Standard auto-boom control BESTWAY IS installing the Swath Manager automatic boom section control system on all its 2008 sprayer models at no additional...