Topcon Agriculture

Topcon
Agriculture is a wholly owned subsidiary of Topcon Positioning Systems and
Topcon Corporation. We are a manufacturer of Precision Agriculture tools and
technologies which include: GNSS positioning, guidance and auto steering
systems, rate control and variable rate application systems including “On the
Go” crop canopy sensors, software for developing variable rate prescriptions as
well as analyzing data with GIS for decision making. We also offer solutions
for communicating data collected or developed between the remote vehicle and
the office or other desired locations. Our customers include family and
corporate owned farms, agricultural contractors as well as agronomic service
providers and crop consultants. Our solution suite encompasses planning and
planting through harvest. We also provide many of these solutions and
technologies to original equipment manufacturers around the world enabling the
technologies to become standard factory equipment or options.

We believe that the message of the 4R’s
and the value proposition of Precision Agriculture are very much aligned. As
Topcon Precision Agriculture our mission statement is “Driving farm
profitability through technology made easy”. We believe that the message of the
4R’s and specifically the Right Rate, Right Place and Right Time are all very
relevant and also enabling or supporting of these ideals. The tools of
Precision Agriculture, specifically, Auto Steering, Rate Control and Variable
Rate Application create tremendous in field efficiencies. The messages that
these technologies support both environmental efficacy as well as help support
sustainability of agriculture as an industry are important messages for the
public to recognize.  Topcon as a global
corporation is working to enable sustainable productivity for our growing world
and we believe that alignment of our Agricultural market message with the 4R’s initiative
will support that global objective.