TerrAvion, the largest agricultural aerial imagery provider in North America, has announced it’s 2019 flight schedules! Make sure to take advantage of this cost-effective and best value means of evaluating your fields with your 2019 farm planning and plan execution. For Nebraska and Kansas, simply click on the hyperlink below to see the schedule. To […]
TERRAVION PUBLISHES 2019 FLIGHT DATES Read More »
Have you ever imagined paying less than $2.00 USD per gallon at the pump again? Have you ever imagined seeing a field full of prickly pear cactus? Not only is the prickly pear cactus (nopalito) often an edible part of your favorite Mexican cuisine, but could be finding its way to your fuel tank while
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As a farm owner / operator, we have learned to expect the unexpected. At times, it may seem that all the planning that can be done is still not enough to prepare for the unexpected changes in the weather and in markets. Planning and preparation may seem to be a daunting and formidable task. However,
PLANNING FOR THE UNEXPECTED – ENVISIONING THE FUTURE Read More »
Due to the recent catastrophic storms and flooding, Nebraska homeowners, renters and business owners in Boone, Buffalo, Butler, Cass, Colfax, Custer, Dodge, Douglas, Knox, Nemaha, Richardson, Sarpy, Saunders, Thurston and Washington Counties and the Santee Sioux Nation may apply for assistance for uninsured and underinsured damage and losses resulting from recent flooding, straight-line winds and
FEMA AND YOU – DO YOU QUALIFY FOR DISASTER ASSISTANCE? Read More »
As a result of the catastrophic flooding that hit eastern Nebraska during March 2019, many farmers face the task of deciding what to do about areas of their fields which have been compromised due to flooding or saturation. The following articles provide farmers with remediation recommendations towards protecting and re-establishing soil structure within areas of
MITIGATING FLOODED FIELDS WITH COVER CROPS Read More »
For the 2019 season, TerrAvion is offering a new line of imagery products to our customers. We will be introducing two new image layers to all customers, as well as ultra-high resolution imagery products to customers in select regions. Beginning May of 2019, TerrAvion will begin providing a new Pansharpened Thermal map layer along with
NEW: PANSHARPENED THERMAL AND SYNTHETIC COLOR IMAGERY FROM TERRAVION Read More »
TERRAVION VS. SATELLITE: IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT Satellite imagery has been widely used in agriculture for years. It’s cheap and readily available, but what is the real value it provides to growers? For growers who are running precision ag programs, the answer is very little. One thing growers use TerrAvion aerial imagery for is to manage
IMPROVING IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT AND YIELDS WITH AERIAL IMAGERY Read More »
In a recent podcase, published by the Genetic Literacy Project, Steve Savage discusses a few modern day pest control tools that may surprise you. From stinkbugs to giant vacuums to pheremone traps and predatory mights, the future of pest control may include equipment, mulch and insects that you may not have thought of protecting our
7 MODERN PEST CONTROL TOOLS PROTECTING OUR FOOD FROM HUNGRY BUGS Read More »
The 2019 March floods compromised approximately 850 grain storage structures across Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri, resulting in the loss of approximately $35 million to $40 million to farmers who were saving this grain to fund living, planting and operational expenses for the 2019 crop year. As much of this grain was uninsured and with no
FLOODED GRAIN STORAGE – WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW Read More »
In an article published by AgWeb on April 15, 2019, Jackson Takach presents his outlook on the prospects of farm profitability for the 2019 growing season. According to Takach, while the USDA is predicting farm profits to increase by 10% in 2019 and net cash profits will increase by approximately 4.7%, farm debt-to-asset ratios have
2019 AG ECONOMY – NOT A SLAM DUNK BUT BETTER THAN 2018 Read More »
