Posts Tagged: 'precision ag'

Dry Spring Season: Slightly Deeper Planting Depth and FurrowForce™ Support Sugar Beet Emergence In Challenging Planting Periods

The Crop Tour trial plot for sugar beets on the Swiss Future Farm in 2020 was planted under challenging conditions, as we were experiencing a spring period with extraordinary low precipitation during the planting period for sugar beets between mid of March and mid of April.

Today’s Rising Data Analytics Talent Is Ready For Us, But Are Companies Ready For Them?

The challenge in hiring qualified data analytics professionals is less in finding the talent, and more in ensuring organizational readiness for these roles.

AGCO Connect Onboard and Online for Fendt NA Roadshow

Two of the all new Fendt 900 Gen6 series tractors toured North America this summer, each with AGCO’s new Connect telemetry solution activated for machine tracking and for educating roadshow attendees along the way.

AGCO Acceleration Center

It’s been two years since the AGCO Acceleration Center opened its doors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Since the beginning, the Acceleration Center has partnered with local companies, empowered interns, and is becoming a hub for innovation in the Research Park.

Science Fairs Are Not Just for Students

Science fairs have long been a place for students to think creatively and execute hypotheses they wanted to challenge. Many ideas stemmed from professors inspiring students to take risks, test their hypotheses, create solutions, and promote a new way of thinking that could solve problems. Having our own Data Science Fair at AGCO to better serve our customers spurred conversations, generated new ideas, and created a forum to discuss data in a way that any person whether, “tech-savvy” or not, could understand.

The Power of a Digital 3D Twin in Agriculture

Technology innovation can come from anywhere. With artificial intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR) becoming widely used in all industries around the globe, it’s no shock that agriculture would also adopt new, smart tools to help customers make better and more informed decisions based on their operation’s needs.

Smart Farming and Space Farming: The Next Frontier of Food Production

When it comes to advances in farming technology, the sky’s the limit—or is it? Some may think that space technology and smart farming have nothing in common. And yet both fields seek the same goal: to increase food production while reducing input costs and expenses. Smart farming and space technology are coming together to make space farming a reality.

Data: The Next Step to the Smart Farming Revolution

Data is revolutionizing the agriculture industry. As more solutions to collect and analyze data are created, the more opportunities for growers to maximize their profitability and optimize their operations with real-time decision making occur.

Building a Strong Smart Farming Foundation: AGCO’s Full Fleet Connectivity Approach

In the near future, all AGCO customers will be able to pull data off of their machines for monitoring, processing, or sharing, so they can make more informed decisions that improve yield, reduce input use, or reduce risk. This foundation of machine information, paired with agronomic insights, will pave the way for the future of farming.