Kerry Knuth
Knuth Farms
Mead, NE

Knuth is a third generation farmer, graduate of The Executive Program for Agricultural Producers (TEPAP) and a member of Association of Agricultural Production Executives (AAPEX). Kerry has spoken at conferences on the topics of implementing managerial accounting software into his farming operation and the need for standardization of data across agricultural sectors and their multiple software platforms. Kerry’s use of precision technology in agriculture encompass the progression of GPS from WAAS guided light bars to sub inch RTK. Passive to active machine control and desktop agricultural software to cloud based platforms. Kerry has experienced the growth in the use of cellular connectivity in agriculture beginning on Knuth Farms in 1996 for remote control of center pivot irrigation to today’s technology of real-time streaming of Data to monitor: pivots and Variable rate control prescriptions (VRI), soil moisture probe data, weather data, file transfer from machine display to cloud and machine telematics for real time fleet management and field application recording.