Most no-tillers (70.5%) will use a tractor with GPS-guided auto-steer and capture their yield data with a yield monitor (61.4%). Over half of no-tillers will also use field mapping (56.1%) and auto-seed shutoff (51.6%). Adoption of all four technologies is up from 2024.

While precision farming sales and service revenue was down on average in 2024, most dealers are optimistic they’ll bounce back this year according to the 12th annual Precision Farming Dealer Benchmark Study.

Precision Farming Dealer editor Christine Book jotted down some highlights, quotable quotes and intel shared during the 2-day event — which brought attendees and speakers from across the U.S., not to mention friends from Canada, Germany’s Michael Horsch and team, and others.

“For a while, it was hard to actually get out of the office because we were processing so many orders,” Ryan Seger says. “But now, with the slowdown, we’re going to have to be more proactive with customers and working with them directly at their farms. We’ll be on the road a lot more.”

The system is designed to help farmers control water movement into, out of and within fields, promising impressive efficiency and crop yield benefits.

Capable of spraying up to a 40-foot swath width, with a liquid application rate of up to 50 or more acres an hour at 2 gallons per acre, the HYL-150 can treat hundreds of acres per day.