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:

Answering the Deere Precision Ag Questions Others Won’t

In another entertaining episode of The FarmCast, the 21st Century Equipment dream team of Mike Wemhoff and Troy Randall answer the tough questions about Deere precision technology. Quite a few of the questions revolve around autonomy like this one — What happens if something gets hung in the equipment or a hydraulic hose would bust or anything else a human operator will be able to catch?

Exploring the Latest Planter Technology Innovations

The Precision Planting Winter Conference was jam-packed with agronomic insights and new technology as always. In this grand finale replay, PTx research agronomist Cory Muhlbauer explores how farmers can unlock higher yield potential by improving singulation, spacing, depth, emergence, canopy development and more.

Rethinking Livestock with Virtual Management

Virtual fencing was a hot topic at the National No-Tillage Conference earlier this winter in St. Louis. Here’s a rundown and video of how the Nofence technology works from worldtradepro.com on LinkedIn.

19-Year-Old Develops Autonomous Drone Company

Continuing with the livestock theme, here’s an Instagram post about GrazeMate, the brainchild of 19-year-old robotics enthusiast Sam Rogers, who grew up on a cattle station in Australia. Grazemate recently secured $1.2 million in pre-seed funding for its autonomous drones that are used to muster livestock. “The hair on fire problem we’re looking to immediately address is that skilled labor is really difficult to find and often very expensive,” Rogers said in an interview with Ag Funder News. “And then we’re looking at what’s possible with monitoring and analytics.”

Understanding How AI Functions in the Field

Here’s a deep dive from Global Agriculture into how AI is being used on farms across the world. “The core lesson is that early detection is not just a technical challenge. It’s a design challenge. When AI is treated as a decision support infrastructure that helps people focus attention and act earlier, it becomes genuinely useful.”

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