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The 2026 Farm Bill proposes 90% federal reimbursement for AI farm tools, but environmental researchers say the climate benefits of precision agriculture are largely unmeasured and unverified.
The 2026 State of the Farm Report finds just 14% of farmers use AI tools, concentrated in large operations deploying AI for financial analysis — not field management. The precision agriculture promise and the practice are still far apart.
A provision in the 2026 Farm Bill reimburses farmers up to 90% of the cost of AI tools through EQIP — but critics warn it subsidizes Big Tech data collection from American farmland without requiring farmers to own their own data.
Just 14% of U.S. farmers use AI in 2026—but farmers under 50 jumped from 28.8% to 38.4% of the farming population in one year, signaling a structural shift in who is making agriculture decisions.
GEODASH Aerosystems' AI drone platform removes the pre-mapping step that has blocked smallholder adoption of drone-based precision agriculture — arriving as only 14% of North American farmers use AI at all.
Polybee is scaling a fleet of self-recharging AI drones to continuously monitor specialty crops and generate harvest timing forecasts — one of the rare AgTech deployments that has achieved immediately measurable financial returns.
The USDA's new National Proving Grounds Network for AgTech will independently evaluate AI-powered farm tools — precision drones, autonomous equipment, yield models — under real farming conditions before commercial release.