Driver-less tractors, unmanned aerial vehicles and daily satellite images of crops and livestock are all part of the future of North American agriculture, according to Paul Gunderson, director of the Dakota Precision Ag Center at Lake Region State College in Devils Lake, N.D.
Former Ag Leader product specialist and Newton, Iowa, farmer Will Cannon discusses the potential of newer precision technology including wireless data transfer and ISOBUS, along with the value of data management in strip-till.
Shane Maller, vice president of operations for the Daugherty Companies, introduces upgrades made to the Vanguard seed monitoring system at the 2014 National Farm Machinery Show.
Ron Peterson, who farms 2,400 acres of corn and soybeans near Gilbert, Iowa, started using precision farming equipment in the 1990s with a yield monitor and hasn’t looked back. However, he remains skeptical about adopting new kid-on-the-block technology until he’s convinced it can pay its way.
What revenue potential do you see for sales of ag drones at your dealership and what are the greatest obstacles to turning a profit with the technology?
Here in the Technology Corner today, we’re talking about the PTx OutRun autonomous platform — a retrofit kit that enables autonomous grain cart, and now more recently, tillage operations.
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