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farm406 42 he College of Agriculture at Montana State University will host a weeklong boot camp highlighting the future of precision agriculture and its potential for use in the state. "Sustainable Opportunities in Precision Agriculture" will take place Monday, June 6, through Friday, June 10, at MSU's campus and its research fields. Each day will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. e event is open to the public, but priority registration will be given to MSU upperclassmen and recent College of Agriculture graduates. e boot camp will teach aendees about precision agriculture technologies for sustainable crop and livestock systems. Aendees are expected to leave with an increased understanding and aptitude for field characterization, field monitoring and mapping, decision-making processes, and more. Each day will include morning lectures in the CHS classroom in Linfield Hall on topics such as sensors, satellites, and drones; data science; remote sensing data acquisition and analysis; soil characterization, monitoring and mapping, and digital farming. e classroom lectures will be viewable through webinars for remote participants. In the aernoons, aendees will visit research sites to gain hands-on experience with precision ag equipment such as those for soil mapping and field variable rates and drones with multispectral cameras. In the classroom, aendees will create a map of the field and various aspects regarding yield, acidity, and more. Courses and field instruction demonstrations will be taught by MSU faculty members from the College of Agriculture. Faculty instructors include Sco Powell, environmental science spatial analysis; Frank Dougher, environmental science geospatial sciences; Shirin Ghatreh Samani, agricultural engineering precision agriculture; Gaurav Jha, soil science precision agriculture; Jasmine Neupane, plant science precision agriculture; Paul Nugent, electrical engineering precision agriculture; and Bruce Maxwell, forest ecology and weed science. By Meaghan MacDonald-Pool, MSU News Service Hands-On Look at the Future of Precision Agriculture Technologies for Sustainable Crop and Livestock Systems MSU Presents Agriculture Boot Camp T