Ep. 213 - John Deere’s CTO Speaks on the Future of Farming
Agriculture Technology Podcast
RDO Equipment Co.
4.2 • 48 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Agriculture Technology Podcast, John Deere's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Jahmy Hindman, speaks live from the Grand Farm Innovation Campus.
Jahmy shares his vision for the future of farming, discussing groundbreaking technologies like See & Spray and autonomous tractors. He dives into the challenges of feeding a growing global population, the evolution of agricultural technology, the role of connectivity and AI in modern farming and more!
Join us for an engaging discussion with John Deere’s CTO on how technology is shaping the future of farming.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Tony Kramer, your host of the Agriculture Technology podcast, and I'm sitting down with |
| 0:06.7 | agriculture technology and equipment experts to help you enhance your operation for today, |
| 0:13.0 | tomorrow, and into the future. In this episode, we hear from John Deere's senior vice president |
| 0:19.5 | and chief technology officer officer Jamie Heinemann |
| 0:23.0 | live from the Grand Farm Innovation Campus. Jamie talks the future of farming new capabilities |
| 0:31.6 | from sea and spray to autonomy and gives us the 10,000 foot perspective where technology and agriculture is only |
| 0:40.2 | going to continue to increase. Please enjoy Jamie Heinemann live from the Grand Farm Innovation |
| 0:46.8 | Campus. I would start out by saying thank you to the growers, the farmers, very much appreciate |
| 0:55.7 | what you do and how you do it, not just for your business, but for what it means for all |
| 1:00.0 | of us. |
| 1:01.1 | It's a noble occupation. |
| 1:02.7 | We're really proud to be able to help in that and to serve in the ag industry. |
| 1:07.1 | I think we ought to answer why are we interested in autonomy? |
| 1:10.7 | And the answer is pretty simple. There's 8 billion souls on the planet today, and we're headed towards a number that it's quite a bit north of that, 10 billion by 2050. And sometimes I get challenged on this statistic. Are you sure it's going to be 10 billion by 2050? The answer is no. I don't know if it's going to be exactly 10 million by 2050, but I don't |
| 1:28.6 | think you can refute what's happening with respect to the world population when you look at it |
| 1:35.5 | historically. This is 1950 to 2023. And I would argue the trend since, you know, the 1970s, |
| 1:42.4 | 1975 has been pretty consistent. And it's pretty easy to sort of |
| 1:47.8 | predict kind of where that goes. So whether it's $9.5 billion or whether it's $10 billion, I don't |
| 1:52.6 | really know. The reality is it's a lot more than are on the planet today. Not only is it more people, |
| 1:59.1 | but our diets are changing. Quality of life fundamentally is |
| 2:02.0 | improving across the globe. Food has probably never been more abundant than it is today in the history of |
| 2:07.5 | humanity. And that's a good thing. People are generally living longer lifespans and their nutrition |
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