"We're in business to make money, not just break even. We record everything we do so we can manage better," says this Emerado, North Dakota, farmer.

Shop time spent repairing planter wear and making adjustments can boost corn yields significantly.

Data will be the disruptor of business models through all the years of the 2020s. It will sow for those who tame it real-time solutions and undiscovered opportunities.

The immediate focus for many of agriculture's major manufacturers isn't full autonomy. That day's a lot more likely to come as a slowly rising tide than a landscape-altering tsunami.

Managing subtle factors in the seed trench sets the course for a successful crop.

Call them perennial optimists -- farmers who are using Kura clover perennial legume living mulch to farm smarter.

Lori Culler, DTN/Progressive Farmer's columnist of "Ag's HR Coach", provides some practical tips for finding employees in this tough labor market.