Farmers don’t want to replace people; they want them more productive. Autonomy allows them to reassign labor to higher-value tasks while autonomous systems handle the repetitive, time-consuming, mundane ones.
“Tackling herbicide resistance is a major challenge across all crops, but it’s especially tough with cotton,” Dudley Pohnert says. “We use the most effective tank mixes available, but they’re still not providing the results we need. In reality, we should be spraying our fields twice as often as we do, but the high cost of chemicals makes that unfeasible.”
"Partner with others. I’m not my own barber. I don’t do my own dental work. I don’t do my own legal work. So, why wouldn’t you find people that you trust, and you partner with in approaching the customer?"
Recent conversations and sightings of drones in rural areas have producers raising questions, such as “what can I do about suspicious drone activity” and “can I shoot down a drone over my property?”
With the theme “The Role of AI in Autonomous Agricultural Systems and Socioeconomic Effects,” the conference emphasizes the transformative power of AI in addressing critical issues like food security, conservation strategies and the socioeconomic impacts of autonomous systems.
Dozens of precision ag software engineers from different companies will gather under one roof to test compatibility and correct communication of their ISOBUS products.
Today, there are more than 400,000 spray drone operators globally, and an even greater network of partners has emerged to train, service, and sell products to these operators.
Most no-tillers (70.5%) will use a tractor with GPS-guided auto-steer and capture their yield data with a yield monitor (61.4%). Over half of no-tillers will also use field mapping (56.1%) and auto-seed shutoff (51.6%). Adoption of all four technologies is up from 2024.
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