S 507 · 119th Congress · Agriculture and Food

Promoting Precision Agriculture Act of 2025

Introduced 2025-02-11· Sponsored by Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]· Senate

Bill Progress

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Enacted
Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S861-862)(2025-02-11)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Promoting Precision Agriculture Act of 2025 This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to develop voluntary standards for precision agriculture (i.e., managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality). USDA, in consultation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), must develop voluntary, consensus-based, private sector-led interconnectivity standards, guidelines, and best practices for precision agriculture to promote economies of scale and ease the burden of adoption. USDA must (1) coordinate with relevant public and trusted private sector stakeholders and relevant industry organizations, and (2) consult with sector-specific agencies and state and local governments. Further, in developing the standards, USDA must, in consultation with NIST and the FCC, consider the connectivity needs of precision agriculture equipment, cybersecurity challenges facing precision agriculture, and impact …

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