{"id":166656,"date":"2024-12-16T09:13:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T14:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/?p=166656"},"modified":"2024-12-16T09:13:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T14:13:21","slug":"the-high-tech-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2024\/12\/the-high-tech-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"The High Tech Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farming has come a long way in the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>We know, from the last <a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2024\/02\/three-takeaways-from-the-usda-census-of-agriculture\/\">census of agriculture<\/a>, that farm life is changing. The number of farms is dropping, while the size of the average farm is going up. That means fewer farmers are working more land.<\/p>\n<p>In order to be efficient, farmers have to turn to technology. Whether that means electric tractors or drone sprayers, to save manpower on the fields, or installing solar panels or virtual fencing to make the most out of the acreage they have, farmers are getting creative.<\/p>\n<p>Here we&#8217;ve collected some of our most popular stories exploring the biggest tech in use on farms today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farming has come a long way in the last few years. We know, from the last census of agriculture, that farm life is changing. The number of farms is dropping, while the size of the average farm is going up. That means fewer farmers are working more land. 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