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:

New Combine Technology in Farm Progress Show Spotlight

All the major OEMs placed a heavy emphasis on precision technology this year at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Ill. We had a good conversation with Leo Bose, harvesting segment lead for Case IH, about Case IH’s new combine tech. Here’s a clip!

New Tech Accomplishes Something for First Time in Ag History

Here’s one of the coolest things you’ll see at the show — InnerPlant’s CropVoice platform is powered by a network of soybean plots engineered to signal when it’s under attack from fungus, giving agronomists access to stress signals directly from the plants. InnerPlant’s Sean Yokomizo says they had the world’s first detection of an active fungal infection in real time this growing season.

New Study Quantifies Benefits of Precision Ag & Targeted Spray

Hot off the printer, here’s the 2025 Benefits of Precision Agriculture study. It’s an update and expansion of the 2020 study that focuses on the larger benefits of precision ag beyond the positive economic impact to farmers. The study features a consolidated look at the potential impact of emerging targeted spray technologies.

FBN Talks AI in Ag

Here’s another good read from Jennifer Marston at Ag Funder News. Farmers Business Network (FBN) CEO Diego Casanello discusses the company’s plan for more AI after raising $50 million in new capital a few weeks ago. “AI is the big opportunity — think about the fact that data in agriculture is very unstructured, very dispersed,” Casanello says. “FBN has been very focused in trying to bring order to that data chaos, and with AI, you can bring this to the next level and deliver it in a very natural way.

Farmer Explains Why He Won’t Use Automation in Fields

In his latest Upstream Ag Insights newsletter, Shane Thomas shared a link to this LinkedIn blog from Tim Wilson, an irrigation manager in the central valley of California. Wilson writes, “Precision irrigation. Ag tech. Automation. Buzz words. I’m going to tell you why I won’t use automated control on our fields.”

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