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 [...]

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 [...]

Exciting news! We will be releasing the latest version of SMS Basic, SMS Advanced and SMS Mobile soon.  As you may have already read, the SMS Mobile release will include the added ability to install SMS Mobile on devices with a desktop operating system such as tablets, netbooks or ruggedized laptops.  (For more info, click [...]

SMS Software offers a great way to organize and manage all of your precision farming data. However, with all of the capabilities and functions offered by SMS Software, you may have some questions about what you can do with your software and how to do it. That’s why Ag Leader offers SMS Trainings – to [...]

We’re excited to announce SMS Mobile PC – set for fall 2010 release. SMS Mobile PC is the same great application we’ve been selling for several years for Windows Mobile devices but now made to install on laptops, netbooks, and tablet PCs running Windows XP, VISTA, or 7 operating systems. We know many of you [...]

When we were developing SMS Mobile several years ago, we had three main goals in mind.
Ÿ         Make it useful.

Ÿ         Make it easy.
Ÿ         Make it take a few strokes off my golf game.
Well, two of the three goals were implemented more during the development stages than the later, but since the product has been released, we [...]

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 [...]

Today, we officially released Version 10.0 of SMS Basic and SMS Advanced software and Version 4.0 of SMS Mobile.  Here are a couple sources for complete details of this release.
Blog Post – provides an overview of what’s new, includes a couple of screenshots.
Release Notes – detailed information of items included in the release.
Video – offers [...]

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 [...]