Going into their fifth year of precision farming data collection, Joseph Brightly says the family farm is getting ready to leverage the information they’ve collected in the previous 4 years.

The path to leveraging precision farming information is a rocky one for Charles Augello at CY Farms near Elba, N.Y. Farming 5,500 acres of strip-tilled corn and soybeans as well as conventionally sown wheat, peas, cabbage and turf, CY Farms finds its fields, which average less that 25 acres in size, an obstacle to leveraging precision farming equipment and data.

Jorgensen Land & Cattle is a fourth generation family farm that also operates 11,000 acres of no-tilled cropland and 7,000 acres of native prairie pasture. They are also the nation’s largest producer of Angus bulls that are leased and sold to cattlemen.

Chad Godsey works both sides of the precision agriculture fence. He helps his father, Don, and brother, Ryan, on their 3,000-acre Godsey Farm & Ranch near Wray, Colo. He also offers agronomic services, specializing in variable-rate seed and fertility mapping and farm-based yield trials through Godsey Precision Ag.

The Hunnicutts are no strangers to precision farming. For more than 10 years, they have been pushing the envelope, using first their own RTK base station and now a signal subscription to precisely strip-till, then plant, spray and harvest their 2,600 acres of corn, seed corn, popcorn and soybeans.

It's one thing to have issues with your own precision farming equipment, but when you're a custom applicator serving a 60-mile radius of farmers who operate more than 20,000 acres, precision equipment uptime takes on a new meaning.

Dave Myers farms about 2,000 acres with his father, Don, near Leaf River, Ill., and finds his best success with precision farming stems from equipment that's simple and straightforward.

Ordway Boriack’s venture into precision farming is quite a bit different than most farmers.