Farmers loose 90 percent of their expensive tungsten carbide tools due to wear of the supporting steel shanks
Tungsten carbide cultivation points and associated wear parts fall off mounting shanks as if falling off is the only reason they were manufactured and installed to begin with. Farmers typically loose 90 percent of their expensive tungsten carbide soil-engaging parts because the supporting steel fails, according to Tenmat Advanced Materials of the United Kingdom. All […] Read moreTag Archives Around The Farm
Read it on the go, tillage in the know
A set of soil sensors can be installed on cultivators and vertical tillage implements to provide real-time readings that help growers create a uniform seed bed and create high-resolution soil maps that can inform future planning. Veris Technologies introduced Vision for Decisions this year, which the company calls a seeding environment support system that uses […] Read more
Case: match tillage tools to soil type
The tillage tip you try in sandy loam and the tip you try in grey clay: they aren’t the same ones
Case has embarked on a quest to better match new soil and residue management implements to suit specific soil types. Does that mean a growing selection of tillage tools? Yes. This fall they introduced a new S-tine field cultivator and a new configuration high speed Speed-Tiller, as part of the company’s initiative in matching tillage […] Read more
New mid-size air seeding cart from Deere
Big brother C850 passed a lot of hot technology to C650 design, including tank scales, at-side display
Deere’s new air cart took the leading-edge technology developed for big brother C850 and incorporated it into the mid-size C650. The 650-bushel cart can be towed between the tractor and seeder. A prominent C850 feature now on the C650 is the digital cart-side display, which puts the operator safely on the ground instead of running […] Read more
Upgrade Precision Air 5 carts now available
Case upgrades 2021 air carts with cart-side display and fill controls, now has turn compensation, from 350 to 950 bu.
Case’s Precision Air 5 lineup has been expanded to include a pair of three-tank models for fertilizer application or broad-acre seeding. The Precision Air 3725 and 3915 are both tow-behinds. The new curve compensation feature helps ensure proper plant population across the drill in tight turns and corners, according to Case. AFS AccuSection modular metering […] Read more
Automated irrigation pivots watch over fields
The system lets producers know what’s happening in their fields and then makes recommendations on what to do next
Prospera Technologies has deployed the algorithms it developed for the greenhouse sector to turn irrigation pivots into robots that can manage crops autonomously. Prospera started operations in 2014 with a team of computer scientists who wanted to use computer vision and artificial intelligence to help farmers make in-season decisions. It now helps to manage more […] Read more
Full-value or half-value from precision ag efforts?
Producers collecting multiple layers of field data complain they aren’t milking the data for all it’s worth. “I’m not even getting half the value out of these images.” Kristina Polziehn hears the similar complaints. She says there definitely is an obstacle to applying the data and images in real-world precision agriculture practices. That obstacle is […] Read more
Keeping a high eye on farm sustainability
It’s expensive and tedious to verify production practices in sustainable agriculture programs, so an Australian-based company is developing tools based on satellite imagery and farm production data that can automatically check if protocols have been followed. FluroSat’s core business uses remote sensing, agricultural science, machine learning and artificial intelligence on any relevant data set to […] Read more
Wasting time waiting for monitor to wake up?
Farmers are often the best inventors of farm equipment, often surpassing the major manufacturers on items ranging from better openers to complex digital devices like yield monitors with GPS mapping capacity. The FarmTRX yield monitor is just such a success story. With a list price of C$1,850, there’s no doubt that FarmTRX is the low-cost […] Read more
Monitoring yield on 40 percent side slopes
A yield monitor that measures paddle heap works fine for most flatland farmers, but farming in places like Idaho and Oregon, where they farm up the sides of mountains, requires a different approach. However, the challenges of worn rubber paddles and side slopes can be overcome. When it comes to paddles, the obvious fix is […] Read more
