Don’t Miss These Popular Smart Farming Week Stories

Smart Farming Week - Powered by Farm Journal - took place March 11-16, 2024 across our brand portfolio of agriculture-focused websites.
Smart Farming Week - Powered by Farm Journal - took place March 11-16, 2024 across our brand portfolio of agriculture-focused websites.
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Farm Journal’s Smart Farming Week is an annual week-long emphasis on innovation in agriculture. The goal is to encourage you to explore and prioritize the technology, tools and practices that will help you farm smarter. Innovation today ensures an efficient, productive and sustainable tomorrow.


As you read these words, our first Smart Farming Week (powered by Farm Journal) is drawing close to wrapping up (we’ll have more content rolling out on AgWeb.com and elsewhere on Saturday), and Saint Patrick’s Day and the promise of another spring planting season lie precariously around the bend. 

From the sales team to our AgDay TV broadcast crew to the entire editorial team (spanning our full breadth of Farm Journal brands), as well as to all of the folks that work in the background (Audience Development, Marketing, Administration – apologies if I have forgotten anyone!), it has truly been a concerted all hands-on-deck team effort these last five days to focus on sharing impactful stories about technology and the evolution of what we now refer to as Smart Farming.

As Farm Journal’s technology and machinery editor, I think I can speak for the greater team here and offer our sincere collective hope that you’ve enjoyed this first iteration of Smart Farming Week. We intend to make this content push a regular service to you, the reader, and as such we’ll meet soon as a team to go over what worked, what didn’t, and where we see this project going in the near term. Just as farmers are always evaluating and adjusting and striving to do better, we do our best to siphon some of that determined spirit into our own huddles and weekly Zoom meetings. 

We also have another focused Farm Journal content push in the works and coming soon, our Next Gen Spotlight Series Week. And, of course we think you should stick with us all year as we’ll continue to cover Smart Farming news and stories in perpetuity.

Below is a quick recap of some of the most viewed pieces of Smart Farming Week content thus far in case you missed something and would like to catch up. And if you have any ideas for future Smart Farming stories, be it in print, digital, or even for the broadcast crew, please reach out via email to Mgrassi@farmjournal.com and share those with me. 

Hoping you all have a restful and fun weekend! 

-Matthew J. Grassi 

Popular Smart Farming Stories (3.11 – 3.13) 

Next-Gen Spotlight: Technology Is This Illinois Farmer's Forte

6 Tech Tools and Trends To Watch In 2024

Autonomy In Ag Is Firing On All Cylinders Right Now, And It Looks Different Depending On Where You Live

Robotic Technology is a Long-Term Investment, But Potentially a Great One

Space Weather: Start Planning Today for Tomorrow’s GPS Outage

More of The Latest Smart Farming Content

There's a New Way to Cash in on Your CI Score on the Farm, Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act

Technical Debt: Self Scout to Avoid Tech Pitfalls

Smart Seed Selection Tool Pledges to Close Yield Gap

 

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Gulke Group president Jerry Gulke explains why he made the last-minute decision to switch 200 acres of corn to soybeans.

Wheat Outlook 5-30-90 Days (4.26.24))
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Recap of the week's price action, advice and outlook broken down into the next 5, 30 and 90 day segments.

Grains Close Higher for the Week:  Does the Market Need to Rally and Add More Risk Premium or Not?
Grains Close Higher for the Week: Does the Market Need to Rally and Add More Risk Premium or Not?

Grains end mixed Friday but higher for the week led by wheat.  Cattle make new highs for the move helped by stronger cash.  Can the markets continue to move higher?  Darren Frye, Water Street Solutions, has the answers.

APHIS To Require Electronic Animal ID for Certain Cattle and Bison
APHIS To Require Electronic Animal ID for Certain Cattle and Bison

APHIS issued its final rule on animal ID that has been in place since 2013, switching from solely visual tags to tags that are both electronically and visually readable for certain classes of cattle moving interstate.

A Margin Squeeze is Setting in Across Row-Crop Farms, and 80% of Ag Economists Are Now Concerned It'll Accelerate Consolidation
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There's an immense amount of pressure riding on this year’s crop production picture, and with a margin squeeze setting in across farms, economists think it could accelerate consolidation in the row-crop industry. 

How Do Wind, Solar, Renewable Energy Effect Land Values?
How Do Wind, Solar, Renewable Energy Effect Land Values?

“If we step back and look at what that means for farmland, we're taking our energy production system from highly centralized production facilities and we have to distribute it,” says David Muth.