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Valley Irrigation will be featured on FOX Business News

The precision irrigation company will be featured on The Green Room in a segment focused on the future of sustainable farming.

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  • May 1, 2013
    Article

    Divergence Between Efficiency and Data Driven Technology Remains Wide

    Bruce Erickson, currently agronomic education manager with the American Society of Agronomy, has been heading up survey development and data compilation for the 16th Retail Precision Adoption Survey. He and the team have noted some interesting trends in all technologies, including variable rate application and global positioning....More
  • Apr. 29, 2013
    Article

    The A to Z of technology changing agriculture

    The complete A to Z list of technology changing the agriculture industry....More
  • Apr. 10, 2013
    Article

    Valley Irrigation will be featured on FOX Business News

    The precision irrigation company will be featured on The Green Room in a segment focused on the future of sustainable farming....More
  • Mar. 26, 2013
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    Newest telematics offering from Case IH: AFS Connect

    Trevor Mecham, marketing manager, Case IH North America, AFS, hits on the highlights of the company's newest telematics offering. Like videos from Farm Industry News? Subscribe to Farm Industry News Now e-newsletter to get the latest videos and more straight to your inbox twice weekly....More
  • Mar. 19, 2013
    Article

    FarmLogs adds rainfall monitoring, new smartphone apps

    FarmLogs, the year-old Web-based farm business management software program, is adding new features in time for the 2013 growing season....More
  • Mar. 12, 2013
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    New Field 360 services launched by Pioneer at Commodity Classic

    DuPont Pioneer launched its new Pioneer Field 360 services to the public at Commodity Classic 2013. John Chism, senior marketing manager, Pioneer, highlights some of the features on the new app available called Pioneer Field 360 Notes. Visit pioneer.com. Find more information on the app here.  ...More
  • Mar. 11, 2013
    Article

    Leica’s SteerDirect ES offers retro-fit electric assisted steering

    Leica Geosystems introduces a new retro-fit electric steering system called SteerDirect ES. The easy-to-install assisted steering system works with the majority of tractor, sprayer and harvester models without removing the steering wheel....More
  • Feb. 27, 2013
    Article

    High-tech spray nozzles target glyphosate resistant weeds

      After years of primarily using one-size-fits-all spray tips that are ideal for spraying Roundup Ready crops, growers may now need to own an arsenal of nozzles specific to a range of chemistries.  ...More
  • Feb. 5, 2013
    Article

    Capitalizing on the cloud: Wireless connectivity in agriculture will make big gains in 2013

      Cloud-based computing in precision agriculture took a huge leap forward in 2012 and is likely to make another big gain in 2013. In the past 12 months, options for using “the cloud” to provide wireless connectivity to tractor and combine displays grew dramatically, to the point it is now possible to eliminate the frustration of shuffling thumb drives to keep precision ag data up to date....More
  • Feb. 4, 2013
    Article

    New GPS system from Ag Leader for tiling, precision farming

    Farmers requiring sub-inch accuracy for tiling and other precision farming operations have a new GPS option from Ag Leader Technology: the GPS 2500B RTK Base Station.  Bill Cran, Ag Leader GPS product specialist, said, “The GPS 2500B is a dual-frequency 900 MHz RTK Base Station for use with the field-proven GPS 2500 smart antenna.” ...More
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