Precision agriculture

Published 2014-04

Products and services using Precision agriculture are generally available around 2023

Verdict

hitTwo blind graders agree (D7, rule D37). The auditor agent confirmed it (D11).

Grader A: hit
Grader B: hit
agrees with A, without seeing its verdict
Audit: confirmed
in the fixed audit sample (D11)
Published: hit

Grader A: hit

USDA ERS reports GPS guidance on 45-55% of US corn, rice and peanut acres and variable-rate technology on about 20% in 2010-2013, i.e. commercially sold before the poster.

Test: D37 Horizons: precision-agriculture products buyable by ordinary farms by 2025 (earlier counts).

Precision Agriculture Technologies and Factors Affecting Their Adoption (USDA ERS Amber Waves) (2016-12): GPS guidance on about half of planted acres and VRT on about 20% for major crops in 2010-2013.

Grader B: hit

GPS guidance, yield mapping and variable-rate application were widely sold from the late 1990s.

Test: Farmers could buy precision-ag products/services by 2025 (earlier counts).

Precision agriculture (2023): GPS guidance, yield mapping and variable-rate application commercially used since the 1990s-2000s.

In our research

All captured fields

id: hz-2014-038
category: Agricultural technologies
kind: technology
target year: 2023
placed year: 2023
milestones: {"scientifically_viable":2019,"mainstream":2023,"financially_viable":2023}
confidence: high
note: Numbered dot (mainstream point) at 2023.0, on the 2023 line (read as 2023). Bar from 2019.3 to 2023.4: scientifically viable ~2019, financially viable ~2023. Sub-area: Automation.