Trimble Agriculture

JULY 19, 2023

How AI in Agriculture Has Already Changed Us Even before self-driving cars hit the consumer market, farmers were plowing fields with GPS-guided tractors. In the mid-1990s, John Deere began using GPS technology for precision agriculture, combining GPS location data with sensor readings to determine crop yield.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 19, 2024

In case of agriculture machines such as tractors, electrification presents some unique challenges. Energy consumption The first challenge is that the use case of tractors is incredibly energy-intensive. For the most part, the purpose of a tractor is to drag machinery through a field.

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Caff

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

While ag tech might conjure images of robots and satellite-driven tractors plowing vast acreages, some innovators are focusing their ingenuity on the needs of smaller-scale farmers.

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Trimble Agriculture

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Meanwhile, farming has changed drastically, with the advent of smart technology and the aftershock of the 1980s Farm Crisis. Technology Is Changing Farming While Farm Lending Lags Behind New farm technology like AI has already irreversibly changed agriculture.

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Modern Farmer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

With more resources at her disposal than Pinto da Costa and Rabari, Hemmes is focused on how to ensure solo-farming operations like hers have access to the technology they need to overcome heat spells and never have to seriously consider an overnight harvest schedule. Photography via Shutterstock.

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Farmbrite

JUNE 1, 2023

These days, farming is a lot more than just plowing the field and planting seeds. Farming also includes marketing your goods, managing finances and employees, keeping up with technology —and that's just the beginning. These loans have a 15-year repayment period with fixed interest rates ranging from 1% - 3%.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MARCH 1, 2025

Diesel-powered tractors replaced horse-powered plows, and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers replaced their manure. Department of Agriculture programs encouraged their adoption with financial assistance that enabled big purchases like tractors as well as smaller annual purchases of newly improved hybrid corn seeds. Will it work?

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