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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, then we dug into life on the tech side as we spotlighted Ken...
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...
One Easy Way to Protect American Agriculture Workers From COVID-19
COVID-19 cases are currently surging in America’s heartland, putting the backbone of our agricultural industry in a perilous position. Though record numbers of people are inundating our hospitals, the work of America’s agricultural industry must press on. Crops still...
Big Savings! MyAgData Can Save Ag Almost $½ Billion
In previous blogs, we’ve discussed how MyAgData dramatically increases acreage reporting efficiency and accuracy for producers, resulting in savings in time and money. But producers aren’t the only ones who benefit. Results from two pilot studies, conducted in 2018...
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