For precision agriculture, two driving forces are the emerging advances in technology and the evolution of society’s expectations of the food and ag system. These forces mainly are outside the control of farmers and agriculture.

With the ultimate objective of developing an unmanned ground vehicle capable of independently assessing soil health, a team of scientists is using spectroscopic technology that measures the interaction of different wavelengths, or colors, with chemical compounds found in soil.

Verizon Business and Monarch Tractor announce a partnership with the use of Monarch autonomous tractors connected via Verizon’s network.

New Holland and Bluewhite announced a partnership to collaborate on distribution, manufacturing and integration of Bluewhite’s autonomous solutions for New Holland tractors in North America.