Precision Farming Dealer editors encounter a variety of articles, social media posts, podcasts and videos that offer a unique look at various aspects of our great agricultural industry. Here is our favorite content from the past week:

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Hacker Jailbreaks Deere Tractor Live in Front of Cheering Crowd

After hackers briefly took a break from hating on John Deere, they’re back at it again — this time jailbreaking a Deere tractor’s control unit live at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas over the weekend. “(T)he company itself is a dumpster-fire of information security worst practices, whose unpatched, badly configured, out-of-date tractors are a bonanza of vulnerabilities and unforced errors,” Cory Doctorow tweeted as part of this thread explaining how hackers are exploiting potential security weaknesses to break into Deere’s machines.

Cummins Partners with Elevāt to Provide Real-Time Engine Health Data

Cummins is integrating its Cummins Connected Diagnostics application with the Elevāt Machine Connect IoT platform, making real-time engine health, maintenance, uptime and use data available on millions of off-highway engines. The new partnership also improves communication among the OEM, dealer and customer, says Elevāt founder Adam Livesay in an interview with OEM Off-Highway. “It's really enhancing the relationship between the OEM, their dealer network and the end customer.”

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Agriculture Robotics Is Difficult AF

The title of this article by Rhishi Pethe expresses the frustration of needing to develop various iterations of hardware and software for agricultural robots to properly perform tasks, particularly specialty crop harvesting. Pethe lays out the robot tech stack and OEMs’ relationships with agtech companies to create functioning farm robots.

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FieldIn COO: ‘You Cannot Automate Everything in 1 Year’

FieldIn COO and co-founder Iftach Birger is pretty realistic in his assessment of the path to autonomy in this short interview with Ag Information Network. While FieldIn has been laying the groundwork for farm automation for years, Birger says autonomy isn’t going to happen overnight. “We will live in the near future in a mixed fleet world. Not all your fleet will be autonomous. No matter what,” Birger says.

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Robot of the Week: FarmWise Autonomous Mechanical Weeder

This tweet from FarmWise shows a video of the company’s Titan autonomous mechanical weeder slicing through weeds growing next to row crops. Titan could be coming to a customer near you as the company recently announced $45 million in Series B funding to expand its autonomous weeders to more farms and more crops.

 

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