2024 top 5: Most read expert opinions
In 2024, the voices of agricultural experts sparked insightful discussions and inspired innovation across the industry. From tackling challenges like sustainability and labour shortages to exploring the potential of emerging technologies, their opinions offered valuable perspectives to Future Farming readers.
This week, coming up to the end of 2024 and the first week of 2025, we look back at the content we have shared over the year. This article highlights the 5 most-read expert opinions of the year, providing a glimpse into the ideas and solutions that resonated most with the farming community.
1. ‘Agricultural machinery breaks records with prices exceeding one million dollars each’
The agricultural sector finds itself grappling with a monumental challenge as prices for farm machinery and tractors soar, coinciding with governments intensifying their push for investments in climate and environmentally friendly technologies.
‘Agricultural machinery breaks records with prices exceeding one million dollars each’
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2. ‘Autonomy: The key to reducing horsepower — It’s not just smart, it’s the law’
Craig Rupp, CEO of Sabanto and a pioneer in autonomous farming, shares his perspective on the practical realities of autonomy in agriculture. As one of the first to operate a fleet of autonomous tractors, Rupp offers unique insights into why a standard autonomous tractor may often be more effective than a dedicated field robot. In this series of bi-weekly opinion pieces, he explores the reality of autonomous farming and what it could mean for farmers today.
‘Autonomy: The key to reducing horsepower — It’s not just smart, it’s the law’
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3. ‘Overlooked logistics: Navigating the future of autonomous farming’
In his previous article, Craig Rupp discussed one of the most overlooked challenges of autonomy: logistics. At the time, I focused simply on the issue of moving autonomous vehicles from one location to another, but there’s more to the logistical challenges I believe industry is overlooking – the size of the fields, the sheer size of the machinery, and the often remote or dispersed locations of those fields.
‘Overlooked logistics: Navigating the future of autonomous farming’
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4. ‘The Rise of AI in Agriculture: A data heist threatening farmers?’
The agricultural sector stands at a crossroads of technological advancement with the emergence of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) specifically targeting crop data. This comes on the heels of the rapid introduction of AI platforms like ChatGPT, which amazed the world with its impressive intelligence.
‘The Rise of AI in Agriculture: A data heist threatening farmers?’
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5. Precision farming insights – Part 1: First step in Variable Rate Technology
Every year farmers are asking me for advice on what should be the first step in variable rate technology. Every time my advice goes to Nitrogen fertilizer VRA as one of the most crucial, albeit expensive, tasks for a farmer in the application of nitrogen-based fertilizers. The following lines will help you gain a better understanding of the best methods to achieve this using VRA (Variable Rate of Application) technology and it will summarize my advice for them
Precision farming insights – Part 1: First step in Variable Rate Technology
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