Add another app to your Ag Apps folder on your smartphone. It’s free for both iPhone and Android users. The app, SoilWeb, combines online soil survey information with the GPS capabilities of smartphones. The SoilWeb app is a portable version of the UC Davis California Soil Resource Lab’s Web-based interface to digital soil survey data from USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation …
Cattle Industry Convention & NCBA Mobile App
The Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA announce their first-ever mobile app. Yep, cowboys do smart phones don’t you know? Here’s what Mike Deering, NCBA Communications, has to say about it. “Cattlemen may not be on the computer much but they have certainly embraced smart phones. The smart phone application was designed specifically for the annual convention. It will give participants …
Precision Laboratories Mix Tank App Honored by AgProfessional Magazine
Precision Laboratories Mix Tank app was honored by AgProfessional Magazine as one of 10 recipients of the Editors’ Choice New Product of the Year Award. These 10 products represent the best, newest, most innovative products introduced in 2011 for sale or use by the ag retailer market and consulting industry, according to the editors of AgProfessional. The free Mix Tank …
Mobile Technology Replacing Brochures At Trade Shows
Why pack cases of flyers or brochures to stack in your trade show booth when you can just bring along an iPad to display more information in a multi-media format? Pioneer Hi-Bred used to bring along more than 50 different product brochures to trade shows. Now they bring an iPad with a company-branded app. Pioneer, along with GROWMARK, worked with …
National Farm Machinery Show App
Going to the National Farm Machinery Show? We are and we’ll have the new NFMS App on our iPhones! The first-ever mobile app, called “NFMS ’12,” for the National Farm Machinery Show is now available for free on smartphones (iPhone, Android and Blackberry) and features an interactive exhibitor map and listings, seminars and speakers, Championship Tractor Pull schedules, and Louisville …
eCotton Launches MyModules App
At the Beltwide Cotton Conferences I met Joe Wyrick, President, EWR, Inc. His company has a division called eCotton which “is dedicated to supplying the information processing needs of the cotton industry.” One of the new ways they’re doing that is with a brand new smartphone app called MyModules. Cotton producers can register new cotton modules and have them transmitted …
Farm Podcaster Tool – TASCAM PCM Recorder
If TASCAM ever releases their iM2 Microphone for the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch you’ll be able to use it with their new PCM Recorder app. I just added it to my iPhone but haven’t used it yet. PCM Recorder is a free app from TASCAM that turns your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad into a portable stereo recorder. Use it with the …
New Farm Podcaster Tool
Farm podcasters just got another gadget to add to their bag of tools. The freedomMIC from Scosche looks promising. It’s a wireless lav style mic which solves some issues that come with recording video of something you can’t get close to. It’s currently out of stock but hopefully that will change soon. freedomMIC allows you to record with flawless audio …
AgWeb Launches Mobile App
Now there’s an app for AgWeb. Farm Journal Media just announced the launch of their mobile app. “Our online user base—the largest web audience in agriculture—repeatedly turns to AgWeb for current market information, agriculture news and online tools and databases. The new mobile app will help keep growers connected to AgWeb from their mobile phones or tablets, even when they …
Mobile Technology In Dairy Industry
Mobile app technology is growing fast in the ag industry. Even the dairy sector is seeing more and more of it. Take Select Sires which took their Select Detect activity monitoring system to a new level this year when they introduced the mobile optimized version at World Dairy Expo. I spoke with King Smith to learn more about it. In …