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Ag Autonomy’s ‘State of the State’

"The old paradigm of software in ag equipment was that software was used to enable your machine. That paradigm is dead. The new paradigm is that your machine is the hardware that enables the intelligence of software," says Chris Hunsaker, who breaks down the forces, paths, challenges and opportunities surrounding autonomy in ag. 
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Precision Farming Dealer's Best of the Web: June 3, 2026

This Week's Lineup:

  • Autonomous Machine Plants Organic Corn Trials
  • Why AI Isn’t Showing Up On Your Bottom Line
  • More Universities Offering Precision Ag Degrees, But Enrollment Lagging
  • How to Launch, Fly and Map With New WingtraRAY Drone
  • Big Changes for Case IH and New Holland Machinery Dealers, Customers – and Rival Colors



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Hands-On Precision Ag Lessons Yield 'Aha' Moments for Iowa High Schoolers

Opening eyes was part of what Iowa State University’s Digital Ag Innovation Lab was aiming for in creating the Precision Ag Technology Curriculum for High Schools (PATCH) program, which debuted this school year in 22 high school agriculture classrooms in Iowa and will expand to another round of schools across the state this fall.
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[Podcast] AGCO, CNH & Kubota Leaders Discuss All Things Precision

On this episode of the Precision Farming Dealer podcast, brought to you by Ag Express, a trio of OEM leaders sit down for a panel discussion about all things precision ag.
On this episode of the Precision Farming Dealer podcast, brought to you by Ag Express, a trio of OEM leaders sit down for a panel discussion about all things precision ag.
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Why Nobody Can Agree What a Field Robot Should Look Like & Why the Argument Will Be Settled the Same Way It Always Has Been

Every farmer wrestling with a Windows-based FMIS, an iPhone, John Deere Operations Center and a contractor on Trimble needing a prescription map, already understands ecosystem economics better than most Silicon Valley founders. They live the cost of incompatibility every day. Yet autonomy startups keep arriving with a ‘superior’ product and a new interface, wondering why adoption stalls. This article is about why ecosystem beats technological perfection. Every time.

"Autonomous systems are coming. That is not in question. The question is which platforms reach the ecosystem density needed to become the foundation, and which ones follow the Fast Hitch into the history books regardless of their technical merit," says Graham Gleed.


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