It’s hard to believe that only a year has passed since our editors assembled the first print edition of this publication. Reading through that inaugural issue again, one of the first things that came to mind was how much the precision farming industry has evolved in just a short time.

Idaho farmer Robert Blair’s precision farming journey began with a personal digital assistant (PDA) and an antenna that he fastened to his cap in 2003.

Having grown up in a generation fed an abundance of eye opening and eye rolling science fiction fodder, I’ve gotten a pretty diverse taste of what the future of the world was supposed to look like by now.