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Drones watch for disease and collect real-time data on crop health and yields.

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around - we'll adapt to that. It's an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions.

As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.

We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.

Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.

All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunting and gathering cultures of 100,000 years ago. If businesses could find a way to invent 'agriculture,' we could put the world back together and all would prosper.

I believe that agriculture land - productive agricultural land with water on site - will be valuable in the future.