Agricultural Equipment Technician 20, 30
AGET29
Module 29: Emerging Agricultural Technology (Core)
Outcome
Investigate the use of technology in agricultural equipment.
Indicators
(a) | Investigate how a need in agriculture drives the development of new technologies. |
(b) | Identify the current uses of technology (e.g., GPS, sensors and self-driving) in agricultural equipment. |
(c) | Research and describe the use of emerging technologies designed to improve agricultural equipment. |
(d) | Describe the environmental impact of emerging technologies. |
(e) | Analyze the benefits, disadvantages and cost of self-driving, autonomous and robotic vehicles in agricultural operations. |
(f) | Explore the development and use of new fuels to power agricultural equipment. |
(g) | Explain the benefits of using telematics and hyper precision to monitor and regulate movement (e.g., turn compensation) of agricultural equipment. |
(h) | Examine technology such as electric drives and header height control. |
(i) | Investigate the development of automation to increase the production and efficiency of specialized agricultural industries. |
(j) | Research a recent development in agricultural equipment technology. |
(k) | Describe tasks that would benefit from technological advancement. |
(l) | Predict future trends in technologies used in agricultural equipment. |
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