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Is Variable-Rate Seeding The Right Practice For You?

Investing in this technology can help no-tillers determine the optimum seeding populations for their fields and maximize yield potential.

By Jim Leverich posted on June 1, 2011 | Posted in Equipment, Precision Agriculture

Variable-rate seeding is a relatively new practice that is fairly easy to adopt with today’s precision farming technology.

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7 Steps To Making Precision Technology Work

Clay and Wade Mitchell took seven crucial steps to convert their Iowa farm into the world’s “highest tech” ag production system.

By Clay T. Mitchell posted on August 1, 2008 | Posted in Equipment, Precision Agriculture

In a recent entry on The Mitchell Farm Web site (www.mitchellfarm.com), I wrote that “effectiveness comes from getting the one piece of information necessary to make a decision and leaving the rest unseen.” I was referring to how easy it is to get smothered in GPS field-generated data, but often not knowing how to put it to work.

This Is An Opportune Time To Consider Farm Innovations

Many costs are on the rise, but increasing farm prices also provide revenue for implementing new technologies that can improve no-till operations, efficiency and profits.

March 1, 2007 | Posted in Equipment

It’s times like these when the sticker shock of rising costs combined with the opportunities presented by rising prices leads resourceful growers to take a new look at the way they run their operations. New and innovative technologies available today can help you reduce the use of materials and take fuller advantage of the assets you already have.

Dare to Compare

This farmer matches his conversation system to varying soil types

By Susan K. Davis posted on November 1, 2006 | Posted in Equipment, Soil Health

Tim Manchester was nonchalantly looking over yield maps when the clusters of dots representing yields glowed as brightly as a K-Mart blue light special.

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We Tied It All Together With Smooth Transition To Strip-Tilling

Multi-purpose equipment aids efficiency, and current practices could qualify for soil and water conservation payments.

By Randy Norby and Ron Ross posted on August 1, 2006 | Posted in Strip-Till Farming

Multi-purpose equipment aids efficiency, and current practices could qualify for soil and water conservation payments.

More Implement Steering Systems Coming

May 1, 2006 | Posted in Equipment, Precision Agriculture

Several St. Louis National No-Tillage Conference attendees who use GPS auto-steer systems raised the question of adding more GPS wizardry directly to drills, planters and sprayers for reducing costly side draft on steep slopes.

Forget The Tractor — Steer Your No-Till Planter

Moving to auto-steering with your planter, drill, sprayer or other no-till tools can lead to more accurate cropping.

May 1, 2006 | Posted in Equipment, Precision Agriculture

For more accurate seeding and spraying, a few no-tillers are already starting to believe that global positioning satellite systems should be placed in the ground — where it may count the most.

Choose Auto Steering Wisely

Avoid buyer’s remorse by keeping several factors in mind when considering an investment in this technology.

October 1, 2004 | Posted in Precision Agriculture

Avoid buyer’s remorse by keeping several factors in mind when considering an investment in this technology.

Hands Off the Wheel!

There is a lot to be gained by no-tillers willing to invest in a high-precision auto steering system and use it correctly.

June 1, 2004 | Posted in Precision Agriculture

If you've ever wondered if precision farming would fit in your operation, listen to Clay Mitchell. This farmer from Buckingham, Iowa, has been using automatic guidance systems in his no-till operation since 2000, and he has some thoughts on the subject.

Hands-Free No-Tilling!

With all the talk about auto-steering, here’s how to decide which system is best for your no-till operation.

By Katherine Meitner posted on March 1, 2004 | Posted in Precision Agriculture

With every new innovation that comes around to make our lives easier, there comes a price tag — usually a hefty one. And that rule of thumb is not set aside when it comes to auto-steering.

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Last-Minute Planter Prep for No-Tillers & Strip-Tillers

On this episode of Conservation Ag Update, brought to you by Martin-Till, precision specialist Chad Baker, co-owner of Baker Precision Planter Works in Orangeville, Ill., helps a first-generation no-tiller with planter setup, and later encounters a couple problems with a strip-tiller’s new 24-row planter. Plus, veteran agronomist Brad Forkner checks in with a couple tips for farmers to keep in mind before they take the field.

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