![]() If you get it right, precision agriculture means farmers can be way more efficient - they can get better crop yields with less work and lower costs.īut as Decoder listeners know by now, turning everything into computers means everything has computer problems now. The idea, Jahmy says, is to have each plant on a massive commercial farm tended with individual care - a process which requires collecting and analyzing a massive amount of data. But the entire business of farming is moving toward something called precision agriculture, which means farmers are closely tracking where seeds are planted, how well they’re growing, what those plants need, and how much they yield. Jahmy told me that John Deere employs more software engineers than mechanical engineers now, which completely surprised me. And I think our conversation will surprise you. ![]() ![]() My guest this week is Jahmy Hindman, chief technology officer at John Deere, the world’s biggest manufacturer of farming machinery. ![]() One of our themes on Decoder is that basically everything is a computer now, and farming equipment like tractors and combines are no different. ![]()
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