Ag Leader Technology Blog

If your farm is like ours, we have a regular cycle of soil sampling our fields to keep tabs on the soil fertility we are dealing with.  Whether you are grid sampling or zone sampling, it is a good management practice to take regular samples to ensure fields don’t become deficient in essential nutrients and [...]

One of the main advantages of precision farming, as we have discussed in previous Lessons, is the ability to base management decisions on site-specific information, making an operation more efficient. Variable rate technology is another way that precision farming can benefit an operation’s bottom line.
Variable Rate Technology (VRT) is the technology used to vary the [...]

As you may have heard, Russia suffered a very poor wheat harvest this year due to prolonged droughts in most of its agricultural areas. Eleven of the drought stricken areas saw more than half their sown land destroyed and it affected more than 9million Ha (22m ac) of land overall.  There were also the images [...]

Harvest is progressing nicely here in southeastern Iowa. The bean crop is all but finished and corn harvesting is in full swing. It was a very rainy growing season but the yields are still respectable. Earlier in the season, when crop scouting, it appeared that yields were going to be below the normal county average, [...]

On April 14th I wrote a blog post about the Chilean earthquake and the effect it had on agriculture and promised a follow up.  I recently spoke with Rodrigo Ortega from Neo-Ag, the Ag Leader distributor in Chile, to get his feedback on how the agricultural community is coping.  Below is the update from Rodrigo.
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The fall release of SMS software – SMS Basic/Advanced Version 10.5 and SMS Mobile Version 4.5 – is here!
Before updating your SMS Basic/Advanced software, please remember to make a backup of your software by going to the Services menu and selecting Backup.  After creating the backup, I recommend burning it to a CD/DVD or copying [...]