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3 Big Benefits of Electronic Acreage Reporting
Electronic acreage reporting? It's kind of a big deal. What are the benefits of filing electronically versus manually? It’s going to save you money: Leverage the data you are already collecting from the field to report the acres you actually planted and pay lower crop...
Is Electronic Acreage Reporting Right for Me?
Do you plant row crops? Do you certify your acreage at your USDA FSA Service Center? Would you like to make the process more efficient and cost effective? The 2014 Farm Bill mandated that the USDA ease the acreage reporting burden on farmers by giving them the option...
MyAgData and Topcon: Next-Level Knowledge for Next-Level Ag
MyAgData® and Topcon® Agriculture have collaborated to make field data collection easier for the producer. All you need is MyAgData connected to Topcon TAP™. With the data from your Digi-Star® GT 560 grain cart scale, you can get an accurate determination of your...
Make Your Ag Data Work as Hard as You Do
There’s no off season. From planting, to reporting, to harvest...and keeping everything else in order in between. We can’t make planting or equipment maintenance easier, but we can revolutionize acreage reporting for you. A producer with 1,500 acres recently showed...
Data-Driven Ag Lending Mitigates Risk
Data-driven ag lending gives access to early indicators of crop production issues during the lending and growing cycle. The data gathered ensures more certainty during the crop planning/loan distribution phase whenloan is most at risk. Using historical satellite data...
Carbon Credit Capture and Identity Preservation
Food processors want to validate the agronomic practices used to produce the commodity and monitoring of plant health during the growing season, and validate the production practices for carbon credit capture. The company knows where the plant is grown, how it is...
Identity Preservation for High-Value Commodities
Identity Preservation, or "IP", is the process of differentiating commodities, requiring that strict separation be maintained at all times. IP is often used to market commodities like food-grade corn and soybeans. For specific end-use markets that require certain...
ACRSI is Almost There! Why Not Finish It?
How a USDA Program on the Verge of Adoption Could Transform American Agriculture [Effingham, Illinois – May 31, 2022] The proposed task force called for by the newly introduced Strengthening the Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Act (H.R. 7675) will have several...
USDA RMA to Accept Electronic Load Records From Grain Carts
Great news for American farmers and claims adjusters! Newly adopted process automation updates to the USDA Risk Management Agency’s Loss Adjustment Manual are going to make everyone’s life much easier. Electronic load records from your grain carts can now be used as...
MyAgData Leader: Getting to Know German Mendoza
We launched our MyAgData leadership series in 2019 to spotlight the people behind our brand. Our series began with a look at women in agriculture as we introduced our COO and co-founder Deb Casurella. We dug into life on the tech side as we spotlighted Ken Ullsperger,...
A New Era For Agriculture Begins April 26th
Mark your calendars: in less than one hundred days, history is being made in the agriculture industry. In the recently signed FY 2021 Omnibus Appropriations Bill, Congress set a deadline of April 26th, 2021 for the USDA to implement Acreage Crop Reporting Streamlining...
Biden Ag Transition Team Can Protect Farmers Starting Day 1
The American agriculture industry has a problem. As COVID-19 surges through the country, setting devastating records, farmers are still being required to submit yearly acreage reports to the USDA, exposing a key component of our economy to a deadly virus. The solution...
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