If you spend any time scrolling social media for agricultural content, you’ll see lots of posts advertising “Smart Farming” tools that can help you “Make smarter decisions with the help of data…” It all sounds so… magical! Unfortunately, farming is not magic. Farm management is a complex business and farmers are often told that technology […]
Read MoreBlack Squirrel Farms and Yates County Farm Bureau had a clear problem. Farm families across New York held valuable genetic material in their native nut trees, walnut, hickory, and pecan, standing in yards and field edges. Seed buyers needed regionally-adapted genetic stock. But no marketplace connected them. The barrier wasn’t just awareness. It was the […]
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Taking the Next Steps, Can SoilStack Help Producers and Agronomists? Dan TerAvest on February 28, 2025 10,000! That’s how many “smart” soil sampling plans have been generated by SoilStack since it was launched in 2021. We’ve reached that number because SoilStack makes it really easy to apply a template for a design-based soil sample planning to tens […]
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Organizing and Advancing Soil Data Interoperability with AgGateway’s Modus Soil Nomenclature Modern agriculture is inherently data-driven, with farmers, researchers and industry professionals constantly being asked to collect information on everything from soil conditions to equipment usage. Surprisingly, despite the emphasis on data collection, there is a lack of emphasis on data interoperability. So while this […]
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Two years ago, I sent a semi-panicked email to friends in the GOAT (Gathering for Open Ag Tech) community saying “AI is coming and it’ll change everything!!!“. The response was muted, and life moved on. As time moved on a great deal of over-hyping happened, but real use cases in agriculture also emerged. Digital Green […]
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I recently returned from Zambia, where Our Sci is supporting research efforts by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) into the delivery of extension services to smallholder farmers. Specifically, CIMMYT wants to know if using technology to deliver site-specific extension advice changes farmer adoption of good agronomic practices and soil health building activities […]
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Survey Stack Staging Updates 2
Here’s the progress for June 17 – July 29! ✨ What’s new Much of the work has been ensuring the upcoming release will go smoothly. Dan and Adie have been updating documentation, deleting old surveys and groups, and generally cleaning house! In addition, here’s other new stuff: Features Fixes We also scoped out work for […]
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SurveyStack is going through some major updates over the next 2 months, funded through OpenTEAM over the last 8 months (thanks OpenTEAM!!!). We’ll have a blog post each week or two showing what’s new and what’s next, and this is the first one. NOTE — You won’t see these changes on surveystack.io yet! They are […]
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Dan TerAvest recently joined Ashley Hammac and Rita Abi-Ghanem for a webinar dedicated to exploring the vital topic of soil health and the power of soil health data!
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Over the past 18 months we have gathered feedback from many SurveyStack users (special thanks to OpenTEAM for their detailed feedback and continued support). Now we are beginning a major overhaul of the SurveyStack user interface (UI) and privacy settings in response to that feedback. In the first phase, which we hope to release in […]
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