By Brian Maxted AgTech. Precision Ag. Farm tech. Call it what you want, but we need more of it if we’re going to meet the challenge of feeding nearly 10 billion people by 2050. Unfortunately, a new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service shows we still have a way to go in terms of precision-agriculture adoption on our farms. In its Farm Computer Usage and Ownership Report released last month, the USDA asked farmers about the utilization of precision-agriculture practices for the first time, finding that only 25 percent of U.S. farmers are using precision-Ag technologies to manage crops or livestock. For the report, the USDA in June 2021 polled farmers from more than 15,000 agricultural operations of all sizes, asking, “In the last 12 months, did this farm or ranch use precision-agriculture practices to manage crops or livestock?” The USDA defines “precision Ag” as …