Sports of all kinds offer a ready analogy to consider when preparing your team and your customers for a great season of precision agriculture.

On the eve of our 4th annual National Strip-Tillage Conference last week in Omaha, Neb., I had the opportunity to assemble a group of farmers for a dinner roundtable discussion on some of the precision farming practices and tools they’ve implemented on their farming operation.

Precision farming is a bit of a dichotomy between theory and practice for Alexander Young, who farms 4,000 acres of corn, wheat and double cropped soybeans with his father, John, near Herndon, Ky.