R2R is a controversial topic we felt needed extensive coverage and a subject that the general ag media doesn’t appear to have the courage to report on due to worries about picking sides with the big equipment makers and their advertising budgets.
While driving to St. Louis in early January for the Precision Farming Dealer Summit (dealers) and National No-Tillage Conference (growers), the news broke that Deere and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on right to repair (R2R).
The Precision Agriculture Connectivity Act of 2018 (S. 2343) would create a task force to bring together public and private stakeholders to evaluate current programs affecting broadband internet access on cropland and ranchland.
A cooperative of growers and an agricultural data non-profit have agreed to combine their technology platforms and create a vital resource for data-driven agriculture – a neutral, secure and private data storage repository controlled by growers. The combined platforms will be known as AgXchange and will be an independent data repository commercially available through the Growers Ag Data Cooperative (GADC) where producers can control, store, view and share their farm data assets.
Mary Kay Thatcher, Senior Director with American Farm Bureau Federation and Jeremy Wilson with Crop IMS offer different perspectives on the value for both farmers and dealers of the newly formed Ag Data Coalition (ADC).
A new organization, the Agricultural Data Coalition (ADC), has been announced with the goal of building a data repository where farmers can securely store and oversee the information collected by their equipment.
A coalition of major farm organizations and agriculture technology providers (ATPs) today announced an agreement on data privacy and security principles that will encourage the use and development of a full range of innovative, technology-driven tools and services to boost the productivity, efficiency and profitability of American agriculture.
Thanks to a membership value program partnership between Case IH, the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) and American Farm Bureau, Inc. (AFBI), Farm Bureau members can now take advantage of farm equipment discounts.
Built on 90 years of expertise, Yetter Farm Equipment leads the agriculture industry in designing effective and innovative equipment for residue management, seedbed preparation, precision fertilizer placement, harvest attachments, strip-tillage, and more.
Montag is the industry’s innovative leader for precise, accurate metering of fertilizer, seed and other nutrients. The Montag system has become the standard for deep banding of fertilizer. Montag is also pioneering the technology for cover crop seed application. The new Cover Crop+ is able to meter the smallest seed, and can be mounted to tillage implements, combines, plus Hagie sprayers and detasselers.
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