Ag Leader Technology Blog

In recent years, many growers have started utilizing their precision ag displays to log hybrids in the field.  Quite often, these displays are controlling clutches to prevent overlaps, changing population on the go and even monitoring seed tubes and population. (How far we have come since those little, dim blinking lights.)
So what benefits do you [...]

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.

Now that we’ve explained GNSS and differential correction, we want to talk about ways that you can utilize these technologies for precision farming. GNSS is the basis of many precision ag technologies; it allows you to map and track in-field actions within those field maps. This process is known as georeferencing.
In precision farming, georeferencing refers [...]

In my last post I talked about getting your sprayer ready for another season and some of the common settings used to fine tune your DirectCommand system. This week I will be discussing some additional features to use to get the best possible performance out of your sprayer.
Minimum Flow – This setting is used to [...]

If you are a farmer in North America there is no doubt you wear a lot of different hats during the day. I am not referring to a Pioneer or Dekalb hat, but the hat of grain marketer, accountant, agronomist, machine operator, etc.  You are heavily involved in all aspects of your operation.  This is [...]

This is a fun time of year.  A time when we watch the crops grow from a seed to a mature plant. Perhaps only a farmer would call watching a plant grow a fun time!  The growing season is the best time to continue to learn how the complex environment of weather, soil and plants [...]

Coming soon, Ag Leader will release of our latest versions of desktop and mobile software:  SMS™ Basic and SMS™ Advanced Version 10.0 (v10.0) and SMS™ Mobile Version 4.0 (v4.0).  I’m sure you are asking yourself, what’s in it for me?  Why should I upgrade from the version I’m running?  Well, I’m confident there are a [...]

Precision ag tools can improve efficiency in the field.  These tools also provide information from the field to be viewed with computer software.  With so much technology and ways to improve your operation, the difficulty is deciding which solutions are right for you.  I’ve heard it said, “there are a lot of rabbits to chase [...]