Corn has the potential to yield 500 bushels per acre. But according to the USDA, the average corn yield lands short at 158. With an estimated 27% global population growth by 2050, the increasing demand will not be met.

Staying on top of new products and the support required to keep a dealership's suite of products running smoothly are difficult tasks. Lance Larsen, precision ag specialist with South Dakota Wheat Growers, talks about the importance of training, especially as it relates the the OEMs.

The tour, which focuses on NDSU’s UAS Applications to Agriculture Project, will be held July 15.

This week, Volt Aerial Robotics has announced the release of the Venture family of small unmanned aerial systems.

Some of the best and brightest from the worlds of agriculture and technology gathered Wednesday in Monterey to discuss the ways in which their worlds intersect, but the piece of news causing the most buzz out of the event was an announcement by Forbes Media representatives that they plan to convene one of their “Reinventing America” events next year in Monterey County — possibly even Salinas.

InterSeeder Technologies, a new company affiliated with Penn State University, has launched commercial sales of InterSeeder, a multipurpose machine that simultaneously plants three rows of cover crops while spraying post-emergent herbicide and nitrogen fertilizer in single passes between four or six rows of knee-high corn.

Over the weekend, the city of Sioux Falls, S.D., was showcased for it's economic and financially stability on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS." Raven Industries has its corporate headquarters in Sioux Falls.

It is almost time for the 12th International Conference on Precision Agriculture (ICPA) again, being held this year at the Hyatt Regency in Sacramento, Calif., from July 20-23. As in years past, the conference promises to be a global event with 400 precision farming experts from over 40 countries expected to attend.

In 2014, the FAA investigated New York City realtors using drones to document properties and issued guidelines saying the use of drones by farmers was unlawful.

Precision agriculture is evolving from the hardware side to data management.