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The bill increases clarity, oversight, and transparency to strengthen cybersecurity and resilience in precision agriculture—helping farmers and rural communities access support and reduce hack risk—while creating compliance costs, potential market restrictions for ag‑tech exporters, disclosure risks, and modest agency resource burdens.
Farmers and rural communities gain clearer insight into cybersecurity risks and federal oversight will identify improvements to reduce the chance of disruptive hacks to precision-ag systems.
Farmers and agricultural researchers get clearer definitions of what counts as precision agriculture technology, reducing regulatory uncertainty and enabling better-targeted program eligibility and research/extension funding.
Farmers and rural communities could gain new or reallocated USDA/DHS resources identified by the review, potentially unlocking targeted cybersecurity support for agricultural technology.
Small farms and agritech vendors may face new compliance burdens and higher administrative costs as they must determine whether tools fall under the bill's precision-ag definitions and meet any resulting rules.
Public release of non-classified findings could expose vulnerabilities in widely used agricultural systems, giving malicious actors potential information to exploit before fixes are implemented.
Classifying certain countries as 'foreign countries of concern' could trigger export controls or grant restrictions that limit market access and international collaboration for U.S. ag‑tech firms and small exporters.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Directs USDA and DHS/CISA to assess cyber threats to precision agriculture and requires GAO to study federal coordination, with both reports due within one year.
Requires the Departments of Agriculture and Homeland Security (via CISA), working with industry-sector coordinating bodies, to produce a public report within one year that assesses cyber threats to precision agriculture technologies, including threats from specified foreign adversaries, gaps, remedies, and funding/staffing considerations; a classified annex may be provided to committees. It also directs the Government Accountability Office to study federal coordination on precision-agriculture cybersecurity and issue a public report with recommendations within the same one-year timeframe.
Official title: Require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit to Congress a report regarding cybersecurity in precision agriculture technologies, and for other purposes.
Introduced June 16, 2026 by Timothy Patrick Sheehy · Last progress June 16, 2026