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AgrotechChris Hunsaker of Acuitus Ag told a farm equipment convention that AI is reaching farm machines four ways: makers' own systems, maker and startup partnerships, retrofit kits and purpose-built robots.
AgribusinessJohn Deere will move windrower and round baler production from Ottumwa to Des Moines and Hagie sprayer production from Clarion to Louisiana, then close both Iowa factories, while sugar cane harvesters move to Brazil.
AgrotechOf 459 cover crop users in the 2026 National Cover Crop Survey, 2.8 percent seeded with their own drones and 13.5 percent hired a pilot; 75 percent named timing as the main benefit and 47 percent poor stands as the main challenge.
AgrotechA Farm Bureau analysis counts 5,500 registered agricultural spray drones in 2025 and says drones fill gaps where wet, steep or irregular fields keep ground rigs and planes out.
At its Tech Day near Chicago, AGCO is demonstrating retrofit autonomy for mixed fleets, AI-enabled spot spraying and Aurora, an AI assistant that answers farmers' questions by voice or text.
OpinionIn the third part of his series on the economics of farm autonomy, adviser Graham Gleed argues that the dealer channel is how driverless technology reaches farmers, citing U.S. Sugar's deployment and Monarch Tractor's collapse.
AgribusinessThe US Department of Labor has approved national standards for the AED Foundation's Registered Apprenticeship Program, a training route for the technicians that farm and construction equipment dealers say they cannot find.
AgrotechNASA's Space for Ag tour stopped at the Flickner Innovation Farm in Moundridge, where the farmer uses the OpenET satellite tool to track how much water his crops use.
AgrotechElement Gen 2 X4 uses edge AI to steer four arms to weeds in and between rows and records weed density on every pass; Aigen has built more than 100 robots.
AgrotechCNH will start rolling out engine software in the fourth quarter of 2026, in line with updated US EPA guidance, so that operators get more time to fix emissions-system faults before an engine derate is triggered.
AgrotechUniversity of Missouri engineers built an AI framework that lets each agricultural drone choose whether to analyse images onboard, on a nearby edge server or in the cloud.
AgrotechA new whitepaper from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers sorts the artificial intelligence in tractors, sprayers and other farm machines into assist, advise and act levels, and sets out what responsible deployment requires.
AgrotechThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln has set up a hub linking its 40-plus digital-agriculture programmes, Extension, producers and industry after growers said there are too many tools that do not talk to each other.
