What will Elon Musk's impact be on agriculture? This is what I kept thinking after reading his biography by Ashlee Vance (Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future) and, although the only part about agriculture was a brief period in Musk’s life working on a family farm in Canada, I think there is a lot agriculture can learn from entrepreneurs like Musk.
With a week to digest the global buffet of equipment, technology and agricultural trends on display at the SIMA Agribusiness Show in Paris, France, I particularly enjoyed visiting with some of the young innovators showcasing progressive products.
Greetings from the SIMA show in Paris. One of the highlights of the event thus far has been an international dealer session, where retailers and distribution coordinators shared the state of their country’s equipment distribution model.
Returning from last week’s National Farm Machinery Show, many of the precision product suppliers I spoke with shared a generally optimistic view on the next 10 months of 2017.
It’s no secret that as the precision hardware market continues to mature, profit margins are shrinking for many dealers who are selling into a saturated and increasingly competitive market.
A number of poultry growers have filed suit against Tyson Foods, Perdue Farms, and other poultry integrators alleging that growers’ production data was shared among integrators to depress grower payments. This is the first case where farmers’ ag data is the center of the lawsuit.
I can vividly remember walking through the aisles of ag shows a couple years ago and seemingly stopping every few booths to grab a business card and a brief conversation with an ambitious entrepreneur looking to stake a claim in the ag tech industry.
A couple of columns ago, I shared an anecdote about how a farm equipment dealership’s owner recently dealt with a tricky precision employment situation. Dealers would prefer to add and retain qualified specialists rather than lose them.
The clouds that house America’s agricultural data are going to see a lot shifting in 2017. The ag data platform space has been on a constant growth trend for the last few years. But all good things must come to an end, and I think 2017 will be the year when farmers demand results to part with their ag data.
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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