This article examines how drones are revolutionizing cover crop sowing at Snåttsta Farm in Sweden, showcasing their role in enhancing soil health, crop rotation efficiency, and sustainable agriculture. It highlights farmer Emil Jansson's experiences and NordLuft’s innovations, exploring the benefits, challenges, and global potential of this technology.

It comes as no surprise that food brands & food-sector companies have large environmental and emissions footprints. Food and agricultural production—the growing, processing and distribution of various crops, animal products and commodities—has a huge emissions intensity and represents the largest land use in the world; half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture. Feeding a booming population in a globalised and competitive world is no easy feat; and efficiencies have historically been found in intensification, scale and increased use of inputs—linked of course with downward pressure on margins. Sadly, since agricultural production is directly influenced by local weather patterns, agricultural production stands to be a major victim of, not just a contributor to, forecasted climate change.

What should you know about agricultural drones; what is their advantages, disadvantages and what have we witnessed while using them?

Is regenerative agriculture profitable? Agronomic consultant Ed Brown believes so. At Northern Roots Forum, we had the opportunity to ask him about his experiences with regen ag.

eAgronom started as a digitized field diary, but we have grown over the years and will continue to grow. We succeed because we listen to our farmers and if we can help, we will. The reason we are adding telematics data to eAgronom is also that we listen.

Changing practices to be more sustainable has to be profitable for farmers, too. eAgronom works to help farmers build long-term partnerships with nature.

If we were asked to describe farming, then predictable and stable would be the last words to use, rather volatile would be the adjective.

The most popular remote sensing measure used in agriculture is the NDVI index. NDVI stands for Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, which simply describes the plant’s development based on how a plant reflects different light waves.