To help growers monitor, adjust and learn from the performance of their planter or sprayer while it moves through the field, the company has introduced the new John Deere Connect Mobile App.

Kansas State University Extension discusses technology to consider that could help take some guesswork out of determining optimum nitrogen application rates for winter wheat.

In response to this need for continued education, BASF is expanding its On Target Application Academy (OTAA) stewardship program with an online training module.

LandPKS combines cloud computing, digital soil-mapping data and the Global Positioning System (GPS) to provide information about the sustainable potential of land under current and future climate, says the USDA.

The concept of real-time disease monitoring with nano biosensors that can communicate with your cell phone might sound futuristic, but the steps in the process have been proven to work in a lab setting, says the Alberta Canola Producers Commission.

Some suggest that precision progress has somewhat stalled among individual companies, and perhaps collaboration or acquisition can jumpstart — or at the very least — streamline innovation.

The Des Moines Register reports attorneys for Kinze filed motions asking a federal judge to stop John Deere from trying to access a wide variety of internal documents about the Williamsburg company's planting equipment business, including marketing strategies, sales data and research and development plans.