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.

Agronomy Tip: Combine Yield Map and Soil Compaction Data

This fall, measure soil compaction in your fields with a soil penetrometer and match the data with yield maps.

A farmer using a tablet in a soybean field.

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Start-Up Spotlight: Tillable

Tillable helps farmers and landowners find each other.

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Agronomy Tip: Utilize Soil Temperature Probe

A soil temperature probe can be a great tool to help plan planting.

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Successful Farming TV Show

Don Landoll’s 1950 Ford 8N Tractor

By Successful Farming TV Show

Dave Mowitz visits with Don Landoll to see his beautifully restored Ford 8N.

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Successful Farming TV Show

Unbelievable Shop/Office with Room for Used Parts Business

By Top Shops

Dave Mowitz travels to Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, to the Runyard farmstead on Top Shops. The Runyards needed a shop that was functional for future expansion and for their used part business.

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Machinery Insider

Sharing Farm Equipment

By Machinery Insider

Reduce machinery costs by jointly owning the equipment with another farmer. Sharing spreads the cost over more acres.

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Female Farmer Grows Tech Adoption

Laurie Bedord features a female farmer growing her tech adoption in Ohio in Technology Spotlight.

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Start-Up Spotlight: ExpresSeed

ExpresSeed has developed a handheld device that quickly identifies preprogrammed genetic markers. It dramatically simplifies testing and significantly reduces testing costs.

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Precision Decisions: Farm Data - The New Currency

Is farm data becoming the new currency? Laurie Bedord has a conversation with Ben Craker of Kuhn North America to find out more.

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How Can You Create More Value When it Comes to Your Data?

“The information farmers are collecting in their fields holds the key to future innovation and competitiveness,” says Ben Craker, Kuhn North America.

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Data For Ransom

Are cyber thieves crawling around in your computer waiting to cash in on a quick payday? You may not think you’re at risk, yet once you put your business online, you become a target for hackers.

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Map, Visualize, and Manage Top Soil Data

This new technology detects and maps soil compaction, saturation, and composition.

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Tech Tip: Do the Research

Before you make a purchase, do some research on the piece of technology you want to buy. This helps ensure you're not overpaying but also... read more