Ag Leader Technology Blog

Last month, Kelly Kopsa – Support Systems Manager for Ag Leader – attended the National FFA Convention to present the National Winner of the Emerging Agricultural Technology – Entrepreneurship/Placement Proficiency award. Proficiency awards recognize FFA members who excelled as agricultural entrepreneurs, employees or volunteers while they gained hands-on career experience. This award was presented to [...]

Taylor Kade Runyan was named the FFA National Winner of the Emerging Agricultural Technology – Entrepreneurship/Placement Proficiency Award, sponsored by Ag Leader Technology and BASF.

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If you are a regular follower of some of the blog postings over the last few months, you know that I have provided some tips to make the soil sampling process go smoothly, as well as tips to collect the “best” soil test for [...]

Setting up your data collection cycle within your display is an easy way to keep your precision ag data organized. Once you have your Growers, Farms, Fields, Operators, Equipment, Products and Field boundaries loaded into your display, it is time to consider how you want to set your data collection cycle. The “New Season” feature [...]

Farming is full of checklists and tasks to do for the day, week, month or year.  Feed the dog, clean the livestock buildings, clean up equipment before putting it away for the year, fix equipment you’re getting ready to use for the next season, and the list goes on.  Among all of the other items, [...]

AMES, IOWA, November 15, 2010 –Today, Ag Leader Technology, Inc., a leader in the development of precision farming solutions, announced the February 2011 introduction of support for ground drive air carts with linear actuator control for seeding and fertilizer application. This new functionality enables control of up to three channels of granular product or a [...]

Over the years, Ag Leader has worked with various universities and research organizations on precision farming projects.  These have ranged from the development of new technology, such as cotton harvesting, to studying the benefits of products such as autosteer and variable rate application.  One of the research organizations that Ag Leader has worked with is [...]

Now that the crops are out of the field and fall field work is beginning, it is time for those fortunate enough to have a problem with excess moisture to get in the field and start repairing and laying new tile.  For those of you who have tiled fields in the past, you can likely [...]

As harvest wraps up and you start to read in your yield data, you might also take some time to record some of the other things that you saw while you were out in the field.  This year I’ve seen several soybean fields with SDS (Sudden Death Syndrome), corn fields that lacked nitrogen, fields that had been flooded, and even a few that had some lodging due to winds that we had last week.  Whatever the case may be for your particular farm, you have the ability to add additional documentation in SMS about these areas for future reference.

As harvest season comes to an end, many growers are ready to move into fall application of fertilizer and anhydrous. Your precision ag equipment plays an important role in fall application, and making sure you have everything prepared can help make your fall application go smoothly. Below are a few things to keep in mind [...]

One of my recent trips took me to Poland to meet our distributor Kamil Szymanczak, who owns the company KAM-ROL (www.kamrol.pl), located near Warsaw. I spent very little time in the city but instead headed southeast to the Lublin region. On the way through here, we met with another dealer, Henry Pawelec, who also sells [...]

Today, Ag Leader Technology, Inc., a leader in the development of precision farming solutions, introduced its latest GPS offering, the GPS 2500 all-in-one antenna and GNSS receiver. The new GPS 2500 features a dual frequency receiver and the capability to receive WAAS/EGNOS, OmniSTAR XP/HP/VBS and GLONASS satellite signals. The receiver also supports e-Dif for areas where other differential signals aren’t available.

Today, Ag Leader Technology, Inc., a leader in the development of precision farming solutions, introduced a new mobile display compatible with SMS™ Mobile – the Mesa Rugged Notepad™. The waterproof, impact-resistant notepad is built specifically for field use and offers a brilliant, sunlight readable screen.

Today, Ag Leader Technology, Inc., a leader in the development of precision farming solutions, announced the February 2011 addition of OnTrac2™ assisted steering support to the INTEGRA™ display. Support of the OnTrac2 steering system is a valuable complement to the full-featured, year-round precision farming display.

Today, Ag Leader Technology, Inc., a leader in the development of precision farming solutions, announced the latest functionality added to the INTEGRA™ display – compatibility with the ISO 11783 (ISOBUS) Virtual Terminal Standard, available February 2011. This functionality enables support of many ISOBUS compliant implements on the INTEGRA display.
“We’re excited to give growers the option [...]