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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Bold Autonomy Prediction at Precision Farming Dealer Summit

The sold-out 2024 Precision Farming Dealer Summit was jam-packed with general sessions, farmer-to-dealer panels, roundtables and breakout classrooms, including a presentation from Mark Vanderloop (Vanderloop Equipment) about retrofitting autonomy kits. “We believe in the next 5 years, autonomy will be larger than anything we’ve seen regarding crop production,” Vanderloop said.

Remembering the Pearts & Their Connection to Ag Machinery

This week was the 4th anniversary of the passing (1-7-20) of the iconic Neil Peart of Rush music fame. As a result this blog by editor/publisher Mike Lessiter has been recirculated this week. It examines Neil's early career in ag machinery, and also included dialog with his now-late father Glen, an IH dealer-principal who later was an dealer association executive.

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Top 10 Dealership New Year’s Resolutions

In this blog, Tim Brannon writes, "My Dad put it in simpler terms when he said, 'Get your gluteus maximus to work' in a tone that needed no interpretation. He was the bestest motivational speaker I ever listened to. Remembering a speech he gave about placing his #12 shoe somewhere, I seem now more motivated to travel into the future. Took me a while to get started, didn't it? So, here we go: our top 10 Dealership New Years Resolutions!"

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Deere VP of Precision Discusses Precision Ag Landscape at CES 2024

John Deere was at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and had several precision tech solutions on display. In this video, Deere VP, Production, Precision Ag Production Systems, Aaron Wetzel breaks down the precision landscape for 2024 in the CES C Space Studio.

Ag Tech Expected to Harvest $18 Billion in 2024 Revenues

Check out this deep dive from Deloitte on the state of ag tech for 2024. “The overall agricultural technology (AgTech) revenue opportunity will be $18 billion globally in 2024. … AgTech solutions can help improve crop yields, use equipment livestock efficiently, plan harvests better, and adopt sustainable agrifood-production methods.”

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