2022 Spring Farm Outlook

Page 28 Spring 2022 Logan County Farm Outlook LINCOLN DAILY NEWS March / April 2022 Spring 2022 Logan County Farm Outlook LINCOLN DAILY NEWS March / April 2022 Page 29 griculture has historically been viewed as a mature industry, but we are now seeing significant technology-led innovation across the sector,” says Jed Lynch, Head of Americas, Sustainable & Impact Investment Banking at Barclays. “As a result, we’re seeing a noticeable increase in high-growth startups, venture funding, M&A activity and public-market interest in this space.” Agriculture represents a nearly $8 trillion industry globally, according to the World Bank, so the application of advanced technology in this sector has potentially profound implications: for the planet, for people and for investors. “Enabling technologies, such as smart sensors, predictive analytics, automation and CRISPR gene editing, are becoming cheaper and better, and most importantly, are affecting not just one area, but virtually every stage of crop production,” says Lynch.*1” Here are ten of the newest game changing technologies that are rocking the world of agriculture: 1. Powerful sensors on planes detect crop nitrogen with high accuracy Predicting the amount of nitrogen needed by a particular crop in a particular year is tricky. The first step is understanding crop nitrogen status in real time, but it’s neither realistic Continue 8 The Top 10 newest Ag technologies “A [Editor’s note: You may notice some sentences have an * followed by a number. The numbers reference sources listed below the article.]