Learn how NOAA’s 2026 GPS update will impact precision agriculture and what farmers, dealers, and OEMs need to do to prepare, in this expert-led session from the experts behind NovAtel.
The initial phase of this partnership will focus on integrating Agtonomy's capabilities starting with Kubota's popular M5N diesel tractor, widely utilized among grape, orchard, and similar operations.
"Interest in the program is strong. Many students in the college of ag and life sciences come from farming backgrounds and they've seen first-hand how technology has become ubiquitous in their work," Ann Marie VanDerZanden says.
Chris Hunsaker grew up on an 8,000-acre sugarbeet and wheat farm in southern Idaho. After 18 years as CEO of Double L — a potato equipment manufacturing company — Hunsaker left the machinery industry when he grew frustrated with the way things were going.
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.
“It’s a way to bring customers onto our service team and teach them what we know. They won’t grasp everything, but they’ll take some knowledge back to their own operation and it will give them confidence in what they’re doing.”
While precision farming sales and service revenue was down on average in 2024, most dealers are optimistic they’ll bounce back this year according to the 12th annual Precision Farming Dealer Benchmark Study.
Precision Farming Dealer editor Christine Book jotted down some highlights, quotable quotes and intel shared during the 2-day event — which brought attendees and speakers from across the U.S., not to mention friends from Canada, Germany’s Michael Horsch and team, and others.
The T1 Technology Corporation, formerly AGvisorPRO, has announced that AgWorld Equipment, an AGCO dealer with operations in Kinistino and Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada, as the latest dealership to adopt the visorPRO solution.
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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