Highlighting the company’s focus on golf course technology solutions, John Deere has announced the acquisition of OnLink, an industry-leading golf course performance optimisation software platform based in the US. As a result, John Deere will acquire the OnLink platform and service agreements with all existing OnLink customers. OnLink is a…
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Now in its 28th year Tillage-Live returns to England this autumn, organised by the Agricultural Engineers Association (AEA), the event takes place on Wednesday 4th September2019 at Corby in Northamptonshire. The industry has once again drawn together to demonstrate soil preparation and crop establishment tackle including ploughs, cultivators, conventional, strip tillage and direct…
‘Lean farming’ has the power to make agricultural operations more effective and improve profit margins – but it requires a radical shift in thinking and is about more than ‘efficiency’. That’s the message from Conor Colgan, farmer and business consultant who has spent the last ten years pioneering lean farming…
“Farmers are working extremely long, and sometimes unsafe hours, and we predict that with the help of autonomous vehicles the not uncommon 100+ hour-working-week should become a thing of the past.” The Hands Free Hectare (HFHa) team has hosted an event to share their learnings from their connected autonomous vehicles…
New Holland Agriculture has launched a Grain Loss Calculator application for mobile devices to help farmers optimise the settings of their combine harvester to maximise its efficiency and productivity. The application has been developed to support farmers operating combines of all brands and models, testament to the brand’s ethos of…
A precision-engineered replica model of an analysis tool allowing farmers to test for possible contamination in food is helping a technology company attract investment which could maximise yields and cut the spread of disease. The Agrichem Residue Tester is a hand-held chemical and contaminant analysis tool developed by New Zealand based…
LH Agro, Topcon Agriculture’s preferred dealer for its precision farming systems in the UK, has appointed Jack Harris to the newly created role of agricultural electronics specialist. Based from his home in the Cambridgeshire Fens, Jack will provide UK-wide technical and software support and training to ensure LH Agro’s customers…
Farms of various sizes are looking to profit from adopting precision farming techniques. Kuhn has introduced a new 8in CCI 800 ISOBUS universal terminal targeted at those for whom the larger 12in CCI 1200 unit is too much of an investment but who still need more screen space and functionality…
EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System) is a free European satellite-based service developed with EU public funds to improve GPS positioning. EGNOS is used by farmers for machinery guidance. GEAR (eGnos dEmonstrator for AgRriculture) is a free interactive virtual application that allows farmers and any other user to discover in…
Sustainable agriculture and cutting-edge technology are key elements of the Kellogg’s Origins project and a new partnership with DroneAg aims to further push boundaries and assess if greater efficiency can be brought into crop analysis and inputs at the farm level using drone technology. A drone is being shared with…