Ag Leader Creates Precision Agriculture Scholarship

Ag Leader Technology announced their commitment to support students interested in precision agriculture by establishing the Ag Leader Technology Precision Agriculture Scholarship within the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) at Iowa State University. Five Ag Leader scholarships will be awarded annually starting in the 2008/2009 school year.

Ag Leader Becomes Exclusive Distributor for Holland Scientific

Ag Leader Technology, a leading manufacturer of precision farming equipment, along with Holland Scientific, a leader in active light reflectance crop sensing technology, announced today that Ag Leader has become the exclusive distributor for Holland Scientific’s secondgeneration active light reflectance sensor products for use in production
agriculture.

Ag Leader Breaks Ground on Expansion Project

Ag Leader Technology, a leading manufacturer of precision farming equipment, recently broke ground on a building expansion at their facility in Ames, Iowa. The 96,000 square foot addition will more than double the size of the current facility and create approximately 58 new jobs in the Ames area.

Ag Leader Adds New Features to DirectCommand™

Ag Leader Technology, Inc., a leading manufacturer of precision ag equipment, announced today the addition of two new features to its popular application control system, DirectCommand.

Ag Leader Unveils Feature-Loaded, Economical Lightbar Guidance System

Today, Ag Leader Technology, Inc., a leading manufacturer of precision farming equipment, introduced the AgGPS® EZ-Guide® 250 lightbar guidance system. The EZ-Guide 250 is an entry-level guidance system, designed to meet the needs of growers.

Ag Leader Creates Precision Ag Lab at ISU

Ag Leader Technology, Inc. has donated the latest precision ag equipment to the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University for use in educating students on precision farming systems. The donation starts a new lab at ISU, complete with hardware and software.

Ag Leader Introduces Low-Cost High-Accuracy GPS Receiver

Today, Ag Leader Technology, Inc. introduced the GPS 1500, a low-cost high-accuracy GPS receiver, ideal for use in DirectCommand™, SeedCommand™ and harvesting operations using AutoSwath™. AutoSwath is used to automatically turn sprayer boom sections or planter sections on and off based on field maps or already applied/planted areas and to automatically adjust swath width of combines during harvest.

Ag Leader Adds Planter Monitoring to SeedCommand™

Ag Leader Technology, Inc. announced today that planter
monitoring functionality has been added to the planter control system, SeedCommand. SeedCommand now tracks and logs average population while monitoring seed spacing. A color bar graph and population display provide this information to operators in real-time. These capabilities allow growers using SeedCommand to eliminate planter monitors from their tractor cabs completely – monitoring and controlling necessary planting functions from the InSight™ display.

DirectCommand - Hardi Compatible

DirectCommand is now compatible with Hardi Commander, Navigator and Ranger series sprayers equipped with a Spray II Control Box. A tee connection at the 39-pin cable is used to connect the DirectCommand system to the flow control components of the sprayer. The sprayer kit is designed to utilize the existing Hardi boom switches and fence row nozzles. Optional switch functionality is also supported by the installation kit.

Changes to the WAAS Satellite Status (July 2007)

This document describes the changes to the WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) satellites.

The older WAAS satellites (PRN 122 and 134) were decommissioned in July 2007. Ag Leader Technology, Inc. recommends that you switch your GPS receiver or EZ-Lightbar to use the new WAAS satellites (PRN 135 and PRN 138) as a correction source.

Ag Leader and NORAC Partner in Precision Application

This morning, Ag Leader Technology, Inc., a leading manufacturer of precision farming equipment, and NORAC, Inc., a pioneer in ultrasonic boom height control for sprayers, announced the introduction of the InSight™ display interface to the UC5™ Spray Height Controller. This new technology will allow operators to control boom height and use the InSight functionality—all in one display.

Ag Leader introduces DirectCommand™ for Strip-Till Applicators

Ag Leader Technology, Inc. a leading manufacturer of
precision farming equipment has introduced DirectCommand™ for strip-till
applicators. The popular DirectCommand system now offers direct control for
granular and liquid products to meet all strip-till application needs.

New KINZE Vision Planter Control

The new KINZE VisionTM system is based on the Ag Leader InsightTM display with touch screen control (on a large color display) to manage compatible KINZE electronic seed monitoring and variable rate drive systems. It also includes factory-installed Tru Count air-actuated, single row clutches for manual or GPS auto-swath control to enable growers to engage and disengage individual planter sections at headlands, point rows, waterways or previously planted areas. In addition, growers will be able to easily track their planting operations by mapping and recording hybrids and varieties (including split planter confi gurations).

FIRMWARE UPDATES for EZ-Guide Plus and EZ-Boom are available for download.

EZ-GUIDE PLUSPRODUCT PAGE | EZ-BOOM PRODUCT PAGE

EZ-Guide® 500

The Ag Leader EZ-Guide 500 features a large, easy-to-read 7-inch color display and a built-in lightbar with 31 guidance LED’s that are highly visible even in bright light. The display provides users an “overhead” or “perspective” view of the operation while the map view provides a real-time, color coverage map. The unit supports multiple guidance patterns and also records data from field operations that can be transferred to a PC via a USB flash drive.