S. 507 — Promoting Precision Agriculture Act of 2025

This section establishes definitions for terms used in the Act, including (1) advanced wireless communications technology (i.e., advanced technology for 5G or beyond networks, next-generation Wi-Fi, or other future networks); (2) artificial intelligence (as defined in section 238(g) of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019); (3) foreign adversary (i.e., any foreign government or nongovernment person engaged in conduct significantly adverse to U.S. national security or the security and safety of U.S. persons); (4) precision agriculture (i.e., managing crop or livestock production inputs at heightened spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality); (5) precision agriculture equipment (i.e., equipment or technology reducing or improving efficiency of such production inputs, such as GPS-based mapping, sensors, IoT, data analytics, variable rate technology, etc.); (6) Secretary (i.e., Secretary of Agriculture); (7) trusted (i.e., a communications provider or supplier not owned by, controlled by, or subject to the influence of a foreign adversary, as determined by the Secretary); and (8) voluntary consensus standards development organization (i.e., an organization developing standards per OMB Circular A-119).

This section states the purposes of the Act as (1) enhancing participation in precision agriculture in the United States and (2) promoting U.S. leadership in voluntary consensus standards development organizations that set standards for precision agriculture.

This section directs the Secretary of Agriculture, not later than two years after the date of enactment and in consultation with the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Federal Communications Commission, to develop voluntary, consensus-based, private sector-led interconnectivity standards, guidelines, and best practices for precision agriculture (i.e., technology-enabled farming practices such as GPS-guided equipment and data analytics) to promote economies of scale and ease adoption burdens. In doing so, the Secretary must coordinate with public and private stakeholders—including voluntary consensus standards development organizations—and consider evolving demands, connectivity needs of equipment, cybersecurity challenges for producers and supply chains, and impacts of advanced wireless communications technology and artificial intelligence.

This section directs the Comptroller General of the United States to assess standards developed under section 4—not later than one year after their development and every two years thereafter for the following eight years—including whether the standards are voluntary, were developed in coordination with relevant industry organizations (including voluntary consensus standards development organizations), and have encouraged adoption of precision agriculture. The Comptroller General must submit a report summarizing each study's findings to the Senate Committees on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and the House Committees on Science, Space, and Technology and Agriculture.