Data

Find the value in your farm data with these tips on improving your process for collecting, storing, and interpreting data. This section also contains information on data ownership.

Q&A: Kyle Plattner, senior product manager for John Deere

Kyle Plattner has spent his career at the intersection of technology and agriculture. Since 2019, he’s been using that passion to improve John Deere’s Operations Center mobile app.

Kyle Plattner of John Deere

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Technologies that will change agriculture

Robots are well suited for the three D’s, says Saik – work that is dangerous, dirty, and dull. Agriculture has all three.

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Sensor technology saves on water and fuel costs

SoilTech's sensor technology promotes savings of water and fuel and could support yield increase on farms.

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Top Shops

3 can-do farm shops

By Top Shops

Innovative structural changes and additions improve working conditions on 3 Midwestern farms.

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Successful Marketing

What a year!

By Successful Marketing

What a year it has been, and many are grateful 2020 is behind us. Yet, while the calendar year may have changed, the marketing year is far from over.

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Machinery News

Farmer Tested and Farmer Approved UTVs in 2020

By Successful Farming TV Show

Our team of farmer evaluators tested the 2019 Kubota RTV-XG850, 2019 John Deere Gator XUV865R, and 2019 Can-Am Defender DPS.

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Agronomy Tip: Record Data Continually

An important habit to get into is to accurately record as-planted data and there are tools to help you do so.

An illustration of smart farming with a tractor in the background.

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Predictions today, prescriptions tomorrow: research aims to convert data into optimal solutions

As days suitable for fieldwork continue to fall in the Corn Belt, Iowa State’s research tries to maximize how farmers can spend that time.

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John Deere Expands Compatibility of AutoTrac Controller 300

After-market steering kit offers customizable precision guidance for myriad brands – both new and old.

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Ag-Analytics Partners with Climate FieldView Digital Ag Platform

Company officials say this partnership will enable users to perform advanced subfield analytics.

Company officials say this partnership will enable users to perform advanced sub-field analytics.

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Ag-Analytics aims to provide accurate revenue information with data

With the rampant rise of ag technology, Ag-Analytics hopes to emerge with multiple uses for the data it gathers and partnerships to enhance the ease of use and quality involved.

A farmer using a tablet in a soybean field.

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xFarm’s Matteo Vanotti on Not Reinventing the Farm Data Wheel

What makes xFarm unique is that the platform is compatible with more than 30 different varieties of sensors. It will incorporate connected tractor models starting in 2020.

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Tip of the Day

3-in-1 welding cart holds it all

I couldn’t find a cart that would accommodate my MIG and TIG welders plus my plasma torch, welding helmet, and supplies. So I bought an... read more

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SCN continues to spread as economic losses mount

Non-family farms take larger share of U.S. land and production

3 Big Things Today, January 25, 2021

Farmland Insider: A wild few weeks in Northwest Iowa

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