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(Outback Guidance video screengrab via YouTube)
Crops

CNH to buy Outback Guidance’s parent firm

Case IH, New Holland maker to pay US$175 million for Hemisphere

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CNH Industrial, parent of the Case IH. New Holland, Steyr and Flexi-Coil farm equipment brands, has signed a cash deal to buy satellite positioning tech firm Hemisphere GNSS, parent of the Outback Guidance aftermarket GPS, precision ag and autosteer business. CNH announced Thursday it will pay $175 million for Hemisphere, which has been owned since
Manitoba Agriculture staff run Ag Days attendees through the newly launched fertilizer efficiency calculator.
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VIDEO: Manitoba Agriculture launches fertilizer efficiency calculator

Field by field, how well are you optimizing fertilizer?

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Manitoba Agriculture says its new fertilizer efficiency tool will help farmers determine how much of a nutrient is doing its job and how much is wasted. Speaking at Ag Days in Brandon, Manitoba Agriculture Minister Derek Johnson said the digital tool will help producers identify places where fertilizer efficiency could be improved and money could
The province's new calculator is now available in an Excel format, with a web-based, "mobile-friendly" version to be made available "in the coming months," Ag Minister Derek Johnson said Jan. 17.
Crops

Fertilizer efficiency calculator launched

The virtual tool promises a farm-specific deep dive into actual fertilizer efficiency

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Manitoba Agriculture says its new fertilizer efficiency tool will help farmers hone in on exactly how much of the nutrient they’re applying is doing its job, and how much is wastage. The department launched the digital tool on Jan. 17 during Manitoba Ag Days. “Our government recognizes producers face historically high fertilizer prices, highly variable
Yield data is commonplace but fully leveraging it isn’t happening yet on most farms — but that will change rapidly, say some experts.
Crops, Equipment

The era of uniform application is ending as data drives change

The technology behind precision application isn’t the finished article yet, but it’s getting close

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Glacier FarmMedia – The days of applying fertilizer and other inputs in a blanket fashion across entire fields are coming to an end. With the advent of GPS integrated data loggers and yield maps, farmers no longer need to guess when it comes to applying expensive inputs, said precision agriculture expert Alex Melnitchouck. “Yield is
Cyberattacks against agricultural targets are not some far-off threat; they are already happening.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Rise of precision agriculture exposes food system to new threats

There are pressing reasons to adopt new technology, but real risks too

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Farmers are adopting precision agriculture, using data collected by GPS, satellite imagery, internet-connected sensors and other technologies to farm more efficiently. While these practices could help increase crop yields and reduce costs, the technology behind the practices is creating opportunities for extremists, terrorists and adversarial governments to attack farming machinery, with the aim of disrupting
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Crops

Agco buys Manitoba ag autonomy firm JCA

Massey, Fendt maker boosts precision ag capacity

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International farm equipment maker Agco is aiming to boost its bench strength in the precision agriculture and autonomous ag sectors by buying a Prairie software and hardware company known for both. Agco, the maker of machinery brands including Massey Ferguson, Fendt, Challenger and Valtra, said Monday it has bought Winnipeg-based JCA Technologies for an undisclosed
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Reward farmers for digitalization, says Farmers’ Edge CEO

Digital tracking of all aspects of farm production could bring economic opportunities for farms and governments alike

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Governments should incentivize farm digitalization like they incentivize environmental farm plans, Farmers’ Edge CEO Wade Barnes told participants in the Manitoba Protein Summit. “The opportunity that comes out of it is just enormous,” he said. Barnes took part in a panel discussion on digital innovation alongside other experts in farm technology during the virtual summit
A CNH manufacturing plant at Sorocaba, west of Sao Paulo in southeastern Brazil. (Photo courtesy CNH Industrial)
Crops, Markets

CNH sees revenues rising to 2024 on precision agriculture plans

Margin at agricultural unit seen at 14.5 to 15.5 per cent

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Milan | Reuters — Italian-American vehicle maker CNH Industrial on Tuesday gave guidance for a total revenue growth of up to 24 per cent through 2024 as it presented a new business plan after spinning off its truck, bus and engine units. In a bid to focus on its higher-margin agriculture and construction machine businesses,
Ag-tech start-up Easton Robotics founder believes the use of small robots in conjunction with existing equipment is more realistic than larger, autonomous vehicles.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Supplementing – not replacing – large tractors with autonomy

There are opportunities for small robots on small grain farms

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Glacier FarmMedia – There is ample opportunity for robots on small farms — if prices can fit with lower economies of scale. That philosophy is the driving force behind Maryland-based ag-tech startup Easton Robotics. According to founder and chief executive officer Jeff Chandler, however, the idea that small farmers will replace their big tractors with autonomous vehicles, or
A LiDAR image of the Red River in Minnesota, taken by the University of Minnesota. Manitoba is now adopting this technology more broadly.
Farmit Manitoba, News

Getting the lay of the land

Laser-based mapping technology is taking the measure of Manitoba’s topography in minute detail

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We know that life on an old glacial lake bed means periodic — and sometimes spectacular — spring flooding. In future we may also see greater amounts of summer rain as the climate warms and that could mean more frequent, locally destructive floods throughout the growing season. Building local climate resilience means managing more water

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