New Precision Ag Report Shows Big Benefits for Ag

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers has released a new report highlighting the significant benefits of precision agriculture in the US. Austin Gellings, Senior Director of Agriculture Services at AEM, shares more about the findings and the goals behind the report.

“Yeah, the goal was really to bring the ag community together to help quantify and tell the story about the role that precision agriculture and precision agricultural technologies can play, both in on farm conservation, and tell the story about the role that technology plays in that, but also then tie that to, you know, through the increased efficiency that we see from these technologies, the ROI that can bring a farmer as well. And kind of pair those two together, how efficiency and conservation kind of go hand in hand.”

Gellings says precision agriculture continues to deliver results with productivity climbing six to 7% allowing farmers to grow more food on less land.

We found a whole bunch of numbers like that through, you know, increased efficiency and use of herbicides. You know, by needing to use 54 million pounds less of herbicides as a result of these technologies. And same goes for fertilizers.”

He said this study was also intended to see how far we could go as a country if we had full adoption of precision agriculture.