Highland Precision Ag Featured In Fresh From Florida Magazine
Highland Precision Ag is very excited to share the 2016-2017 edition of Florida Magazine – your guide to Florida’s farms, forests food and exports. Florida Magazine is published in partnership with the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Highland Precision Ag Partners With Waypoint Analytical
Waypoint Analytical, Inc. (WP), in Memphis, TN and Highland Precision Ag, LLC, (HPA), in Mulberry, FL, are pleased to announce a strategic alliance in the Precision Ag industry that will enhance Highland’s laboratory testing services.
How Ag Education Has Changed in the Last Decade
As the agriculture industry changes to include new farming practices, such as precision agriculture, a new generation of farmers are beginning to adopt the responsibility of integrating these new practices into their operations.
Saving Our Citrus Crops: Battling Citrus Greening with Precision Ag
For the Florida citrus industry, time is not on our side.
Huanglongbing, commonly known among growers as citrus greening, has compromised millions of citrus trees all over the world and has only recently made its way to the western hemisphere.
Honing in on Your Pesticide Usage
Pesticides. Whenever the word is mentioned, it usually strikes a debate between those who think we should use them and those who think we shouldn’t use them for a variety of different reasons.
7 FAQS Consumers Have About Farming
When most people think of a farmer, they think of an idealistic pasture, dotted with cattle that are peacefully grazing as a humble family picks fresh fruits and vegetables from their fields.
With Farmers Markets Changing, Where can Growers Sell Their Produce?
Farmers markets were the first source of income for many of our grandparents and great-grandparents. After a long week of tending to fields, they’d pack up their pickup trucks and head down to the local market to sell their fresh fruits and vegetables.
New Regulations for Commercially Used Drones: What You Need to Know
On Monday, August 29, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) new rules for commercially used, small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) went into effect.
Colleges Across the U.S. are Adopting Precision Agriculture Programs
A quick Google search for “precision agriculture degrees” brings up nine colleges with curriculum focused on precision agriculture. With several technologies being introduced into agricultural processes, schools across the country are creating new agriculture programs or adapting their current agriculture curriculum to include new techniques and technologies.
How Consumers Can Contribute to Water Sustainability Efforts
Earth’s surface is approximately 71 percent water. Of that percentage, our oceans hold about 96.5 percent of it, while things like water vapor, rivers, lakes, ice caps, glaciers and aquifers make up the remaining 3.5 percent.