Even for widely used options like variable-rate fertilizer, GPS auto-steer, auto seed shutoff and yield monitoring data analysis, more than 15% of no-tillers indicated they would likely purchase the technology in the next 5 years.

Cory Buchs, senior product director for Trimble, gives a rundown on the company’s automatic stream switching, which allows farmers to access the best means of receiving RTX corrections via cellular or satellite.

“I’m happy with what I’ve seen so far,” Tyler Troiola says. “The herbicide savings were as advertised on corn. Soybeans were a little trickier, though.”

Precision ag startup Sentera launched an Early Access Program to preview its Aerial WeedScout product. The company says the program will provide valuable feedback and build momentum for the 2025 commercial release of Aerial WeedScout.

The RootWave system uses electricity to boil weeds and their roots. The new agreement will see the two manufacturers co-develop new weeding technology and products.

I caught up with the precision ag team at single store John Deere dealer Eis Implement in Two Rivers, Wis. With busy season winding down a bit, precision ag manager EricHagenow and precision specialist Phil Davister reflected on how much business has grown over the last several years, and the type of precision equipment they’re dealing with the most.

Nick Guetterman, a farmer from Bucyrus, Kan., who farms 16,000 acres, and John Fulton, a professor at Ohio State Univ. and president of the International Society of Precision Agriculture, discuss the opportunities & challenges farmers face with adopting autonomous technology.

The See & Spray unit set to be demoed out of the Vincennes Alliance Tractor store will operate on a "credit" system for 2024, raising the question of how farmers truly feel about paying subscriptions for technology they don't "own" in the traditional sense.