Faced with climate change, a demographic crisis and a growing population, farmers are investing in precision technologies to keep agriculture alive — and they’re attracting a fresh generation of talent in the process.

Sustainable Opportunities in Precision Agriculture runs June 6-10 at Montana State University's campus and its research fields. The event is free and open to the public, but priority will be given to MSU upperclassmen and recent College of Agriculture graduates.

Alessandro Matese is working at Mississippi State University’s Geosystems Research Institute to expand his work with remote sensing in precision agriculture using unmanned aerial systems, especially in processing of hyperspectral imagery using high-performance computing infrastructure.

Godsey Precision Ag's field agronomist says Meristem will fill a gap in their current services and help farmers take advantage of biological products. 

University of Minnesota researchers have developed a new method that allows stakeholders to know where corn and soybean crops are grown as early as July, with similar accuracy to the USDA crop data layer, and without ground surveys.

Topcon says the partnership means data from Topcon’s Smart Cart solution for scale-equipped grain carts can now be utilized for stand-alone records, simplifying harvest reporting and crop insurance claims processing for U.S. producers and agents.