FarmBits
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 034: Granular Guidance for Nitrogen Management
27 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Bob Gunzenhauser, manager of Agronomy Science at Granular. Bob has spent a career in agriculture and was a product manager at...
Episode 033: Making of a Model
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Models are one class of predictive tool for nitrogen management. They offer many advantages, but also carry inherent risks associated with attempti...
Episode 032: Nitrogen Roots
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fertilizer is one of the most significant input costs that many farmers incur. Certain row crops, such as corn, cotton, and potatoes, require signi...
Episode 031: Taking a Stand (Count)
06 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
UAVs have been becoming more popular in agriculture in recent years, though largely as exciting new tools that offer a bird's eye view of fields r...
Episode 030: Biological Basics
29 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Biologicals have recently emerged as a potentially revolutionary solution for complex problems in agriculture, such as nitrogen management. David B...
Episode 029: Planting with Precision
22 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Advancements in planting equipment and data acquisition systems have driven significant improvements in how precisely farmers can plant their acres...
Episode 028: Enabling Insights with FieldView
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Variable rate seeding prescriptions are one precision ag practice that has become commonplace in modern agriculture. The Climate Corporation is one...
Episode 027: Multi-Dimensional Management for Planting
01 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Planting technologies have evolved tremendously in recent decades. A range of innovations including row shut-off, mutli-hybrid capabilities, high-s...
Episode 026: Planting - Farmer Focus
25 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Planting is by most accounts the most important operation to execute successfully in order to harvest a good crop. No one knows this better than th...
Episode 025: Building Your Digital Presence
18 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Establishing a digital presence is important for growth and sustained success for organizations operating in the modern world. This is no less true...
Episode 024: Experimentation for Optimization
11 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The purpose of this episode is to dive into the dos and don'ts of conducting research trials on your own farm whether that is for hybrid selection,...
Episode 023: The Connected Realm
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Another private sector organization seeking to enable connectivity on the farm is RealmFive, a growing startup company based in Lincoln, NE. Austin...
Episode 022: A New Beat in Ag Tech
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If rural connectivity challenges are going to be solved, private sector investment and innovation will be necessary. Dr. Ranveer Chandra, the Chief...
Episode 021: Quantifying Connectivity Challenges
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's widely known that rural connectivity is a major problem for rural residents and for the progression of digital agriculture technologies. But h...
Episode 020: The Case for Connectivity
11 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. John Fulton re-joins the FarmBits podcast to talk about a critical topic in agriculture right now: connectivity. This episode marks the beginni...
Mini-Episode 001: Farmer Driven Data Management
10 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the first mini-episode of the FarmBits podcast, Dr. John Fulton of the Ohio State University shares about the Ag Data Coalition, a non-profit co...
Episode 019: Evaluating Equipment Efficiency
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In modern agriculture, managing your farm means selecting and managing your machinery well. But how do you make effective decisions about what mach...
Episode 018: Driving the Grain Economy Forward
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The agricultural supply chain, including the grain industry, is an incredibly complex system that - as COVID-19 exposed to many individuals for the...
Episode 017: Digital Delegation
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
During the digital agriculture revolution, digital technologies have become available for making better input decisions for crops, mapping crop pro...
Episode 016: Taking the Data Lead
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Agricultural data availability at the farm level has increased substantially over the last 20 years, but determining how to store, organize, and us...
Episode 015: Fine-Tuning Fertilizer
07 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Quantifying soil spatial variability doesn't do a farmer any good unless they are able to respond to that variability. Dr. John Fulton, Professor i...
Episode 014: Hindsight is 2020
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
2020 has been quite an eventful year in many ways, and the agriculture industry has not been an exception. Between the challenges posed by COVID-19...
Episode 013: Flyin' Around the Christmas Trees
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Holidays! Have you ever thought about where your Christmas tree comes from, all the work that went into that Christmas tree, or the technolog...
Episode 012: Transcending Management Zones
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"You say management zones, you have to also say manage what. If you don't say manage what, then it's just a concept that doesn't have any direction...
Episode 011: Soil Based Solutions
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the quantifying and responding to soil spatial variability series, we've discussed with Mike Manning the topics of data-driven variability manag...
Episode 010: From Measurements to Maps
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone who has any experience around precision agriculture is familiar with colorful maps that distinguish variability in a field. These maps may e...
Episode 009: Happy Thanksgiving
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! In celebration of Thanksgiving, this is a special edition episode featuring only your hosts Samantha Teten and...
Episode 008: On-The-Go Soil Mapping
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Soil sampling, specifically grid-based soil sampling, has long been a foundational practice in site-specific crop management, and rightfully so. So...
Episode 007: Data-Driven Variability Management
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Managing crop production systems in accordance with spatial variability is the primary goal of site-specific crop management, which is closely link...
Episode 006: Leveraging Yield Data
05 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Yield maps have been around for several decades and are becoming ubiquitous. But what should you do to capitalize on your yield data? Data can be i...
Episode 005: Smart Storage Systems
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Grain is at its highest quality at the instant it comes out of the field, and if that grain is stored it is at risk of significant degradation in q...
Episode 004: Farmer Focus - Harvest Edition
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Farmer focus podcasts are designed to do exactly what the name implies - focus on the perspectives of farmers. In this episode, four farmers from t...
Episode 003: Making Your Yield Data Count
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Yield monitors and yield mapping technology have been available for several decades, but the practice of leveraging the data gathered from these to...
Episode 002: Automation and Strategic Harvest Technologies
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Farmers everywhere understand the importance of harvest logistics and measuring productivity. In colder climates, efficient harvest operations are ...
Episode 001: The Status of Digital Ag
01 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To lay the foundation for future episodes of the FarmBits podcast, Dr. Joe Luck and Laura Thompson join us for a conversation that covers the curre...
Welcome to FarmBits
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to FarmBits! In this episode, podcast hosts Samantha Teten and Jackson Stansell tell a little bit of their stories and provide an overview ...