Mats Söderström, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Anna Rydberg, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE)   The 2013 May issue of the ISPA Newsletter contained a country report of precision agriculture (PA) in Sweden at that time. This text focuses on new developments of PA in Sweden during the last six years. In this time, PA has become a more generally accepted concept, and it is now regarded as an important part of the solution to many of the challenges that we are facing concerning e.g. need for increased and sustainable food production. In the National Food Strategy for Sweden by 2017 (Government bill 2016/17:104), it is for example stressed that knowledge and innovation are keys for a more productive and efficient agriculture, while at the same time striving for relevant national environmental targets. The increased accessibility of useful digital data, and the current rapid digital transformation of the society at large, including the agricultural sector, are also beneficial for the development of digital tools and in turn increased adoption of PA. Now, more or less all farmers in Sweden have access to free and easy-to-use decision support tools for various applications of PA. This is one aspect that we think has been important for the spread of PA recently. Since its launch in 2014, the satellite image based system CropSAT (the first of its kind in Scandinavia, mainly used for variable-rate application (VRA) of nitrogen in grain crops), has become a very widespread tool for advisors and farmers, both for visual inspection of the fields by “near-real time” Sentinel-2 data, but also for wireless transmittance of VRA files to the machinery. That system has also opened the market for a number of other satellite-based systems now available to the Swedish farmers. CropSAT was first a system ...more