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06-10-2008 |
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.
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05-01-2008 |
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.
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04-30-2008 |
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.
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02-20-2008 |
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.
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12-07-07 |
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.
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11-20-07 |
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.
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11-20-07 |
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.
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8-16-07 |
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.
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7-10-07 |
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.
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6-01-07 |
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.
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4-05-07 |
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).
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1-23-07 |
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.
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11-28-06 |
SeedCommand
SeedCommand implements the popular AutoSwath™ feature on planters allowing you to automatically turn individual planter sections on-and-off, saving you money on seed costs and making planting easier. SeedCommand also allows growers to map variety/hybrid locations and record split-planter operations for better record keeping and decision making.
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11-21-06 |
SMS Mobile
Ag Leader is pleased to announce an exciting new product called SMS Mobile. SMS Mobile allows in-field documentation that will help record information about the details of your crop. You will then be able to use this data before, during and after the growing season to make better decisions.
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8-29-06 |
EZ-Boom™
New from Ag Leader Technology, the EZ-Boom automated boom switching and liquid rate controller makes liquid application simple and easy.
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7-11-06 |
Booklet Printing Module
The Booklet Printing option allows you to build, save and print booklets that contain a title page, table of contents, reports, charts and analysis results. It is ideal for service providers who want to provide clients a professional-looking booklet for their operation.
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1-24-05 |
DirectCommand
Ag Leader adds liquid application capability and auto swath control to the expanding capabilities of the INSIGHT display.
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10-07-02 |
PFadvantage
Introducing the PFadvantage monitor/controller
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9-13-02 |
SMS 3.0
SMS Basic 3.0: Precision Farming Software
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11-13-01 |
SMS 2.0
SMS Basic 2.0: Precision Farming Software
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2-22-01 |
GPS 1000
Low-cost, Reliable GPS for Yield Mapping and General Purpose Logging
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