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S 507 119th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food

Promoting Precision Agriculture Act of 2025

Introduced: February 11, 2025 Introduced by: Thune, John Republican · South Dakota See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S861-862)
Feb 11, 2025
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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 of artificial intelligence on this area.

The Government Accountability Office must periodically assess and report to Congress on the standards.

What's happening now February 11, 2025

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

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 1985 Related bill Promoting Precision Agriculture Act
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Warnock, Raphael G.
Georgia · Feb 11, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 507: Promoting Precision Agriculture Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-507/
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