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Following a decade with the introduction of societal shifters such as the smartphone and the adoption of robotic milkers, 2020 could be the starting block for the fastest technological race in farming history. The combination of big data with cutting-edge science, artificial intelligence and cloud-connected technology has the potential to revolutionize our industry. We asked three farm futurists to share 20 of their predictions for the next decade. Conservation Agriculture... Cover Crops. Cover crop plantings surged to 15.4 million acres in the U.S., according to the 2017 Census of Agriculture. That trend will likely continue due to their role in soil health, nutrient management and carbon sequestration. “Agriculture is the only industry that can prove it can sequester more carbon than what Mother Nature's already sequestering,” says Lowell Catlett, former economist at New Mexico State University. Carbon Farming. In the next decade, private companies or government prog...

Following a decade with the introduction of societal shifters like the smart phone and rapid expansion of social media, 2020 could be the starting block for the fastest technological race in agricultural history. Combining big data with cutting edge science, artificial intelligence and cloud connected technology has the potential revolutionize farming in ways only dreamed up in movies. We asked three farm futurists for their predictions for the next decade. More data, more insights and more technology is going to drive agronomic advancement forward in the next decade. New genetic discoveries, coupled with today’s computing power, stands to revolutionize the speed of innovation. We broke the mega trends down to these key categories. Here are the mega trends for advanced agronomics: CRISPR Gene Editing... The idea behind CRISPR-Cas9 was discovered 1987 but has but it’s been in the last five years that real advances in the gene editing technology have started to emerge. By exploiting th...