Unlike conventional spraying tractors and ground robots, drones minimise collateral damage.
, R-N.D., Rep. Nikki Budzinski, D-Ill., and others have been pressing Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Jacobs-Young and other officials on funding and progress on precision agriculture efforts.
Precision agriculture also is being deployed in greenhouse settings to tailor plants to consumer tastes, said Saharah Moon Chapotin, executive director of the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research, a nonprofit that promotes public-private partnerships for research. The group is working with a researcher at Kansas State University to develop models using machine learning to determine the risk for cattle that can develop bovine respiratory disease, Chapotin said in an interview.
Michael Langemeier, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University, said the precision technologies based on internet connectivity can work in remote, rural areas only if farmers and ranchers have high-speed broadband, similar to what Americans in big cities expect for entertainment and shopping.
The US agriculture sector is a pioneer in the use of technology, but McKinsey said only one-quarter of farms use connected devices to access data. Jacobs-Young said broadband access can potentially attract people to rural areas, an outcome that could dovetail with at least one lobbying effort on the farm bill.
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