Ep. 226 - 2025 Ag Tech Recap: Autonomous Tractors, See & Spray™ and Drone Tech
Agriculture Technology Podcast
RDO Equipment Co.
4.4 • 49 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
2025 was a breakthrough year for agriculture technology, and we’re closing it out with a look at the biggest innovations shaping the industry. In the final Agriculture Technology Podcast episode of the year, host Tony Kramer sits down with Daryl Shelton, RDO’s EVP of Agriculture, to reflect on the top advancements of 2025 and share what’s ahead for 2026. Key highlights from their conversation: • John Deere + Sentera imagery: This acquisition is improving the full imagery workflow, from UAV capture to prescriptions and in-season decisions • See & Spray ROI: Real-world results include major input cost reductions and accelerated adoption • Monosem + SeedStar™ 2: Bringing Deere tech to specialty-crop planters for the visibility growers have been asking for • Autonomous Tillage Insights: What 2025 trials revealed and how customers are preparing for the next step in 2026 The future of farming is here. Listen now to see what it looks like and how precision agriculture is evolving.
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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, |
| 0:12.2 | tomorrow, and into the future. In this episode, I sit down with Daryl Shelton as we discuss |
| 0:18.1 | some of the things we've seen in 2025 and where we're headed into |
| 0:22.4 | 2006. With that, Darrell, I would love to welcome you to the show. Thank you for taking the time |
| 0:28.5 | to sit down and discuss some of the technologies and equipment that we've seen here this year with |
| 0:34.1 | RDO and in 2025 and where we might be headed in 2006. Before we get started, |
| 0:41.3 | why don't you tell us a little bit about who you are, where you come from, what your background is, |
| 0:46.6 | and how you got to where you are today. Well, first, it's sure great to be with you and great to be |
| 0:51.6 | on the podcast. So, yeah yeah background um i've been with |
| 0:56.0 | audio equipment company for 15 years but i've been in the industry for for 30 years um i uh started my |
| 1:03.6 | career early on uh with john deer actually started in a parts warehouse as a as a college student so |
| 1:10.4 | uh uh fun times to kind of grow up in the business. |
| 1:14.0 | But spent a good number of years with deer and then another dealer group. And like I said, 15 years ago, |
| 1:19.9 | I jumped over into the construction equipment side. So left the ag side and operated our business in Irving and Fort Worth, Texas on the |
| 1:31.1 | construction equipment. And later on, climbed up in the organization on the construction side of the |
| 1:38.1 | business. About five years ago, I was asked to jump over back into the agriculture side. |
| 1:45.3 | My education is agriculture. |
| 1:47.3 | So I'm an agriculture economist by education. |
| 1:51.5 | And like I said, pretty much my whole career has been tied to the equipment business and the heavy equipment business. |
| 1:59.7 | Yeah. |
| 2:00.3 | And you bring kind of a unique perspective. |
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