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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Horsch’s Autonomous Seed Drill Starts Planting in Brazil

Autonomous planting is underway in Bahia, Brazil. Philipp Horsch, CEO of Horsch, tweeted this video this week of RO24G, the company’s 24-meter autonomous seed drill, planting a field. Earlier this year, Horsch said the autonomous unit would be undergoing “intensive testing” in Brazil.

Fennig Equipment Upgrades 30-Year-Old Sprayer with Raven Controller

In this YouTube video, Adam Fennig of Fennig Equipment, a 2-store dealer in Ohio, explains how he helped a small-acreage farmer upgrade an old pull-type sprayer to operate more accurately using a Raven 450 rate controller. Fenning says a lot of what the dealership does is take old equipment with some worn-out components and make it work like new. 

Agriculture Needs an OS as Good as Your Smartphone’s

Although many of your customers are collecting an abundance of data, one study found 86% of agtech platforms fail to share and analyze the obtained data effectively. That’s why agriculture needs a single, integrated and intuitive interface, argues Semios CEO Michael Gilbert in this Forbes article. He envisions a farm operating system (OS) built by an independent agtech company to facilitate neutrality and cutting-edge analysis.

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4 Lanes to Navigate on the Roadway to Hands-Free Farming

In his keynote presentation at the Digital Agrifood Summit 2022, Food Agility CRC chief scientist David Lamb identifies 4 lanes agriculture will have to navigate on the road to farm automation: Technology, regulatory, robotics-ready farming and social. He outlines the drivers in each lane and ranks which will provide the most roadblocks ahead. You may remember Lamb from this episode of the Precision Farming Dealer podcast, where he talked about connectivity's role in autonomous agriculture.

How Synthetic Data Could Accelerate Ag Innovation

When it comes to developing new crop protection products, it typically takes more than 11 years from the first synthesis of a new active ingredient to the first sale of the product. Synthetic data — data generated by a model using the same parameters of real-world data sets — could be the alternative. In this article, Agmatix CEO Ron Baruchi explains how agtech companies can leverage synthetic data for product development, as John Deere is doing for its AI.

Driving Innovation in Agriculture with Synthetic Data

 

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