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New Precision Ag Digital Digest Released

New Precision Ag Digital Digest Released

Data, Autonomy, and Digital Agronomy

By Ryan Ridley
Managing Editor, Farms.com Precision Ag Digital Digest

The Summer 2024 issue of the Farms.com Precision Ag Digital Digest has been released.

View it here.

It has been an interesting start to 2024 regarding ag tech and precision ag developments.

In the Spring 2024 issue, we covered four main areas: sprayer developments, planting innovations, retrofitted upgrades, and baling technologies.

For the Summer 2024 issue, we decided to break away from categorization and focus on a variety of developments in the industry.

From farm data management and autonomous tractor offerings to digital agronomy applications and equipment connectivity via SATCOM, we've got you covered (...literally).

Let’s dive in.

For starters, New Holland recently released a new farm data management platform dubbed FieldOps. It brings real-time monitoring, remote display viewing and other features into one package for users.

Sabanto brought autonomy to the John Deere 5075E.

GROWMARK and Intelinair partner on a new digital agronomy app.

CNH Industrial is soon to offer farmers access to the internet via SATCOM.

AGCO gives us an inside perspective on its PTx venture.

John Deere chats precision ag upgrades for its sprayers.

The Bits & Bytes section has some quick reads, and the PAG Tech Clips section is full of video.

We hope you enjoy the Summer 2024 Farms.com Precision Ag Digital Digest — view it here.


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Dr. Peter James Facchini leads research into the metabolic biochemistry in opium poppy at the University of Calgary. For more than 30 years, his work has contributed to the increased availability of benzylisoquinoline alkaloid biosynthetic genes to assist in the creation of morphine for pharmaceutical use. Dr. Facchini completed his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at the University of Toronto before completing Postdoctoral Fellowships in Biochemistry at the University of Kentucky in 1992 & Université de Montréal in 1995.