Jason Jenks serves as a precision ag specialist for Pro-Ag Farmers Cooperative in Minnesota. He recently began a blog to explain to consumers how precision ag is helping agriculturalists to produce more food efficiently. Click here to learn more. What is precision ag? Why is it important to know what it is and what it does? How does it affect the food we buy at the grocery store? What part does it play in our food security?

Schaefer Ventilation of Sauk Rapids, Minnesota, is introducing a family of 54-inch belt drive galvanized panel fans for animal cooling. Schaefer’s 54-inch panel fan is available with 3- or 5-wing galvanized blades and 1, 1.5 and 2 HP single-or 3-phase motors. All but the 2 HP single-phase fan operates at both 60 Hz and 50 Hz.

Kustom Cooling, LLC has released the 60 GPM Hydraulic Reversing Fan System, intended for applications that utilize a hydraulic motor to cool the radiator. The system eliminates the need to stop work in order to manually clean the cooling cores of equipment. The reversing fan system has been available in a 25 GPM system and successfully operating in various agricultural, forestry, refuse and construction applications for the past few years. The system is ideal for applications that have issues related to clogged radiators as a result of high amounts of airborne debris.

Texas beef producers attending the 58th Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course in College Station looked intently at several maps depicting future weather patterns across the Lone Star State.