I recently asked Chat GPT: “Draft a lease for 80 acres of farmland in Marion County, Indiana at $250/acre for 1 year.” Chat GPT responded with 12 paragraph Farm Lease Agreement, which I have included below.
"If you’re going to bill somebody for your time, it needs to be immediate, so they remember the service you provided. They remember how much you help them, and it’s not 2-3 months later when it’s out of sight, out of mind, and they’re wondering why they’re getting this bill."
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.
Another National Farm Machinery Show is in the books, and as always, it was quite the spectacle with over 300,000 people packing the Kentucky Exposition Center.
Farmers can now retrofit legacy John Deere equipment and mixed fleets with the necessary technology to accomplish gains in productivity from insights into their operation.
“These next 3 years will be an important period for learning about autonomy and how it can be used in our area to show ROI to our customers," one dealer said.
Dealers participating in the 12th annual Precision Farming Dealer Benchmark Study revealed the biggest challenges facing their precision business in the next 12 months and how they plan to address them.
“The sales strategy with precision agriculture moved from just being able to provide an ROI on paper to more of a consultive sales style," says Jake Ridenour of PTx Trimble. "You’re going to a farm and looking at their entire operation to provide a more holistic solution instead of focusing on an individual product.”
The new JDLink Boost option supports the partnership between John Deere and Starlink by SpaceX network, providing farmers who face rural connectivity challenges with the opportunity to fully leverage precision agriculture technologies.
I tagged along with the precision crew at John Deere dealer Riesterer and Schnell in eastern Wisconsin last week. Among the several takeaways from the visit, they told me there’s one precision tool in particular that’s really paying off for farmers right now.
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