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Field reports from our deployments and our perspective on where AgriTech is going.

Why federal compliance is becoming a competitive moat in AgriTech.

For two decades, AgriTech was a software industry. In 2026, it's becoming a procurement-policy industry — and that changes which vendors can win which deals.

Apr 15, 20269 min read

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PERSPECTIVE

The case for a sovereign farm data fabric.

The default AgriTech architecture asks farmers to put their most valuable data in a vendor's cloud. That trade was acceptable when AgriTech was experimental. It's not acceptable anymore.

Apr 8, 20268 min read

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GUIDE

Drone-as-a-service ROI math for a 5,000-acre operation.

We get this question every week: 'Should we buy drones or contract them?' Here's the math we use to answer it.

Apr 1, 202611 min read

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EXPLAINER

What is precision agriculture? A practical 2026 explainer.

Precision agriculture, smart farming, digital agriculture, ag-tech — the terms overlap. Here's how a 20-year practitioner actually distinguishes them.

Mar 25, 20267 min read

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EXPLAINER

NDVI, NDRE, EVI: which vegetation index actually matters?

Every drone vendor sells NDVI. Most growers shouldn't use it as their primary index. Here's what to use instead, and when.

Mar 18, 20268 min read

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ANALYSIS

AI in agriculture: 12 real use cases with quantified outcomes.

An evidence-based survey of where AI is delivering measurable returns in agriculture today — and where the hype still outruns the deployment.

Mar 11, 202612 min read

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