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Every year I write a story in my mind about the growing season we’re experiencing. Those stories stay with me like a highlight reel that I call on for making decisions in the future. While the 2021 growing season’s story still has much to be written, in Episode 32 of Precision Points, agronomist Doug Eickholt and I do a midseason recap on how this year is developing. He also shares some things he will be watching for and managing against for the remainder of the year. Doug, o

In many cases, the world of precision ag equipment can seem like the wild west, with no clear direction and lots of experimentation, successes, and failures guiding your path. Farmers can make better decisions about integrating precision ag into their current farming operations with a better understanding of the return on investment (ROI) of a precision ag purchase. John Larkin, Marketing Manager for 360 Yield Center in Morton, IL says that one place to start is to determine

Each year growers make many decisions on how to best manage their growing crop. Some of us have our management decisions almost on autopilot, while others make decisions independently each year. One decision that the majority of growers make annually is around plant health. Over the last decade, fungicide application treatments and timings have changed and evolved to meet the needs of today’s growers. In Episode 31 of Precision Points, Amanda Kohnen of Syngenta walks us throu

With the rise of precision agriculture solutions, the farming industry has become increasingly tech savvy. Many growers and producers have embraced GPS-enabled tractors, variable-rate fertilizer applications, and smart platforms that monitor everything from pest populations to yield performance. Now, the latest drone technologies are improving another common farming task: fungicide applications. Rantizo sells a turnkey system optimized for drone spraying and other application

Drones have been a hot topic in ag for over a decade. They came into the market, as most new technologies do, with a relatively high cost and some kinks that needed to be worked out. As the years have passed, many companies have written off drone technology as not useful enough or not scalable. However, in this episode of Precision Points, Craig Houin from Sunrise Cooperative in Ohio shares how they are digging deep into this technology in order to extract valuable and action