Smart agriculture is set to transform farming, allowing greater crop yields and mitigating the issues responsible for causing losses such as disease or adverse weather conditions. This will be key to the long-term welfare of society, enabling supply to keep pace with burgeoning demand.

In a new post Engineers’ Insight, Paul Jones looks at how the latest technological advances will help to make the global agriculture sector function more efficiently - and what the implications will be on connector selection in the next wave of agricultural machinery.