HR 1985 ยท Promoting Precision Agriculture Act
Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.
- Introduced
- Mar 10, 2025
- Latest action
- Mar 28, 2025
- Sponsor
- Rep. Donald G. Davis [D-NC-1]
- Policy area
- Agriculture and Food
- Cosponsors
- 2
Summary
Promoting Precision Agriculture Act 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.
Recent actions
- Mar 28, 2025 Referred to the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development.
- Mar 10, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
- Mar 10, 2025 Introduced in House
- Mar 10, 2025 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1045)
- Mar 10, 2025 Introduced in House
Votes
No recorded votes are available for this bill.