‘Precision agriculture is making farming more dependent on technology’
Today artificial intelligence (AI) is almost on everyone’s lips and the farming sector cannot avoid it. Even though farming is seen as a more conservative domain, the truth is that precision agriculture is making farming more dependent on technology.
To start with the important thing – if you are planning to use software with AI in order to make better decisions on your farm, you should consider that in order for AI to take good decisions with you, it needs either a lot of data or a high quality data in order to work fine. Ideally both.
And now, let me better explain what I just said.
As my experience is mostly in south-east Europe, my arguments are mainly valid in this part of the world, although I am quite sure that at least a big part of it is valid for the rest of the world also.
Farmers have a tendency to focus a lot on the hardware side of things – from tractors and implements to more tech advanced machines such as drones. The software side hasn’t played an important role for them and most of the historical data of their farm activity is logged from accounting point of view or literally on notebooks. And it should be clear for all of us that AI (which isn’t that ready for agriculture today, from a general point of view) will need a large set of data, very localized, to make the best decision together with or for you.
Gather data
This is why I am advising all farmers to start to use software for farm management (or FMS). It will be very important to start to gather data and good quality data – see this moment as seeding and you will be able to harvest later in a few years, when AI will be very well integrated.
To finish my advice, being more detailed, I suggest to start using or looking for FMS applications which are capable of:
A good set of data
Please think about artificial intelligence as a very advanced computer algorithm (or program if you like) not as a human-like computer program. Because AI won’t be able to make decisions or make recommendations without a set of data and if that data is not good, the results will be the same as bad.
Start now to use a farm management software. if you don’t use or if you do so, check how many things it integrates.
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