Precision Farming Dealer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week:

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7 Hiring Challenges Ahead for Businesses in Agriculture

Farming is hard work, and it’s harder than ever to attract new talent to the agriculture industry. It takes 20% longer to fill leadership roles at agribusinesses, with 30% higher compensation required, according to an executive search firm focused on food and agribusiness. In this Forbes editorial, AgriTech Capital president Aidan Connolly outlines 7 key challenges agribusinesses need to know and overcome related to hiring.

smiling agriculture worker in the field

 

Making OEM Solutions Work for Customers Who Don’t Grow Corn & Soybeans

Layne Richins, precision ag manager at 25-store Stotz Equipment, joins Spudnik Equipment Company for this Culture of Agriculture video to talk about how Stotz implements best practices across its wide geographical territory and how the dealership figures out how to apply technology designed for corn and soybeans to the crops grown by its customers in the western U.S. “Stotz tries to figure out the problems in the ag space and how to use technology to solve that problem,” Richins says.

Why Hawaii Could Become the World’s AgTech Hub

The organizers of the Tropical AgTech Conference envision Hawaii as a world agricultural technology hub because the state’s farmers are producing food in the same way as many growers around the world — on small farms while dealing with changing weather patterns, invasive species, limited land and high costs. Right now, the average farm size worldwide is less than 2.5 acres, meaning “the lion’s share of the world’s agriculture is technologically underserved, despite feeding so many people,” according to this article from the Honolulu Civil Beat.

Drones are often flown over orchards or farms to assess damage, water resources and pests, among other things.

Designer Envisions Autonomous ATV for Planting, Harvesting & Other Farm Jobs

Although it’s just a design at this point, the all-terrain CAKE Kibb autonomous ATV caught our eye this week. The Kibb, designed by Fanny Jonsson in collaboration with Swedish electric motorbike manufacturer CAKE, is designed for all kinds of farm chores, including planting and harvesting crops, according to this article from Yanko Design. The electric Kibb is positioned as a “holistic approach” with regenerative agriculture in mind, as it’s electric, has tires made of dandelions, a body made of locally available plastics and is “highly recyclable.”

CAKE Kibb ATV for farming

Robot of the Week: Autonomous Flying Fruit-Picking Robots

Tevel Aerobotics Technologies’ flying robots use artificial intelligence to identify and pick ripe fruit. The grower uses an app to determine how many robots are needed for the harvest and request delivery of the robots to the orchard. Watch the flying robots at work in this video.

 

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