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Something shocking just happened and barely anyone is talking about it.
Tucked within the 2026 Farm Bill is an alarming provision. Farmers who adopt AI and precision agriculture technologies will be reimbursed for it—90% of the total cost. And the standards governing this tech won’t be set by the USDA, but by the tech industry itself.
An article from Fortune titled ‘The 2026 farm bill quietly hands big tech control over American farmland. Here’s the fine print’ reads:
Tucked inside the 2026 Farm Bill is a provision that would reimburse farmers 90% of the cost of adopting AI and precision agriculture technologies—15 percentage points above the normal EQIP cap.
The private sector standards governing those technologies would be set not by the USDA, but by the tech industry itself.
This could be a Trojan horse of sorts for something called “precision agriculture” and artificial intelligence (AI), which big tech firms will be able take advantage of farmers and further wrest control over the food system from them.
The article goes on to describe precision agriculture, saying:
Not only is precision agriculture defined, but it is complemented by a list of what are deemed appropriate technologies, including GPS, yield monitors, data management software, and the particularly strange sounding, “Internet of Things and telematics technologies.”
That last bizarre phrase, which most would probably consider a typo, is actually a concept that abounds in tech company circles. One definition from an industry leader notes that the “Internet of Things,” or IoT, is the “network of physical objects — “things” — that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems.”
Source: The Vigilant Fox
