Ag Leader Technology Blog

Across the Corn Belt, you will find many acres dedicated to the passing forward of seed corn traits to the next crop. An important role in this process is making sure the proper traits are passed from one generation to the next. Over the years, this process has gone from walking the rows and pulling each individual tassel to riding on machines which eliminate the walking part of the equation. One of the latest developments has been detasseling machines which mechanically pull the tassels off the crop, reducing the manual labor to checking the fields for tassels missed.

We are excited to announce the second annual Educators’ Training at Ag Leader Academy to be held August 3-4. This training is especially geared for colleges who are equipping students to work in precision agriculture. We have been partnering with educational institutions for many years, assisting with curriculum, software and hardware needs, and training for [...]

In one of Aaron’s more recent posts, he talked about the value of crop scouting. Scouting your crop will help you identity problem spots in your fields and help you decide if any action should or can be taken to address those areas.  Documenting information collected during scouting will help you after harvest to evaluate why [...]

Growers talk about their experience with Ag Leader’s dealer service and customer support and the importance of quality support.

Over the past few weeks, I have been creating several new hardware video tutorials. This past spring, we introduced our technical support video tutorials that demonstrated various features of the INTEGRA and EDGE displays. As the harvest season is rapidly approaching, we have added new videos explaining the yield monitoring functions of both the INTEGRA and EDGE displays.

This video shows some of the valuable tools available for crop scouting using SMS Mobile, including creating scouting zones, defining pests, geo-referencing photos and more.

This video explains the proper way to take a moisture sample and how to input the information into the display.

This video explains the proper way to perform a temperature calibration and the button presses to enter that calibration information into the display.

This video explains the proper way to perform a temperature calibration and the button presses to enter that calibration information into the display.

This video explains the proper way to take a moisture sample and how to input the information into the display.

This video outlines the button presses and explains the proper way to perform a distance calibration on the EDGE display.

This video outlines the button presses and explains the proper way to perform a distance calibration on the INTEGRA display.

This videos explains how to create combine and a header, as well as how to create a harvest configuration.

The videos explains how to create a combine and a header, as well as how to create a harvest configuration on the EDGE display.

This video explains the process of loading a harvest configuration as well as how the Automatic Variety Tracking feature works in the INTEGRA display. It also demonstrates how to import a reference file to perform variety tracking from data collected from a different source.

So often we talk about the “latest and greatest” in precision agriculture – and rightfully so. An exciting industry such as precision ag has a lot of “latest and greatest” to talk about! But sometimes, taking a moment to reflect on how things came about can provide an interesting perspective as well. This perspective will be the focus of Ag Leader’s presence at the 2011 Ag Media Summit held July 23-27 in New Orleans, LA.

Growers talk about their experience with Ag Leader’s yield monitoring and the benefits they’ve seen on their operation.

Growers talk about their experience with Ag Leader’s SMS Software and the benefits they’ve seen on their operation.

Growers talk about their experience with Ag Leader’s SeedCommand system and the benefits they’ve seen on their operation.

Growers talk about their experience with Ag Leader’s ParaDyme steering system and the benefits they’ve seen on their operation.