With reported agricultural labour shortages all over the world and demographics showing the average age of farmers steadily climbing, complacency about the security of our food production isn’t an option, the delegates to the European Robotics Forum 2012 were told. In tandem with this future uncertainty, in the Developed World at least, there are growing concerns about product quality and safety, as well as the environmental impact of agriculture.

The past four years of reef rescue grants has most certainly changed farming practices across North Queensland. Of all the technologies adopted, none has been better received or utilized than the implementation of GPS on farm tractors, planters and harvesting operations.

Baker College of Owosso officials announce the addition of a new agriculture technology associate degree program to its fall curriculum. In addition to general education and core agriculture classes, the program will include a precision agriculture track.

Louis Wischmeier oversees 5,300 acres of farmland near Columbus, Ind., and spends much of the winter trying to find the perfect “prescriptions,” as he puts it, for his fields.

Clint Cowden, ag science and technology instructor for West Hills Community College in Coalinga, Calif., talks about how the attitudes of incoming students of precision farming have changed in the ten years he has been at the school.

The National Centre for Precision Farming (NCPF) which is expected to give agriculture a boost in engineering was launched at the House of Commons this week.

Telematics will soon be changing the way farmers produce and harvest hay, and in a good way.

Clint Cowden, ag science and technology instructor for West Hills Community College in Coalinga, Calif., talks about the challenges the modern farmer faces as he encounters a growing amount of data collected in various formats by various machines.

Slingshot has announced the launch of a new software application called OnSite from AgIntegrated that will utilize the Slingshot API. The Slingshot API, or Application Programming Interface, is a software-to-software interface that is invisible to the end-user providing a way for one software system to communicate with another.

After 11 years as a precision ag specialist at Kunau Implement in DeWitt, Iowa, Rodney Bratthauer has watched precision ag evolve from “hocus pocus” to a set of necessary management tools in the minds of area farmers.