precision agriculture Concepts

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker · 13 Feb 2018 · 1,034pp · 241,773 words

ingenuity.21 Though water is one resource that people will never pivot away from, farmers could save massive amounts if they switched to Israeli-style precision farming. And if the world develops abundant carbon-free energy sources (a topic we will explore later), it could get what it needs by desalinating seawater

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Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Our World

by Greg Milner · 4 May 2016 · 385pp · 103,561 words

corn, hay, and beans. In the mid-1990s, when Troy was studying agronomy at Kansas State University, he learned about the burgeoning field of precision agriculture. Practitioners of precision agriculture squeeze every last bit of efficiency out of the process, maximizing yield while minimizing cost—in money and time—and the use of resources

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such as water, fertilizer, and pesticides. Troy became a convert, and convinced his dad that investing in precision agriculture would quickly pay for itself. Troy wanted to convert most of the farm to a farming practice called strip till. The process of harvesting a

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exactly a straight line, a challenge even for experienced farmers, especially on fields with no landmarks with which to orient yourself. One of the earliest precision agriculture products was a strip of lights placed on the dashboard. A GPS receiver would determine the headings. The driver aimed to keep the strip lit

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a goatee and mirrored shades hanging on his collar, revealing the permanent squint of someone who spends a lot of time outdoors, Troy spoke of precision agriculture with a computer geek’s enthusiasm. Map software allows him to analyze crop yields around the farm, overlaid with a soil analysis map, and then

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at the end of a row, and it snaps back into position. Troy often uses the time to check the commodities markets on his phone. Precision agriculture is especially helpful in growing the notoriously finicky sugar beet, especially at harvest time, when the system knows the location of every beet. “When you

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’em you can’t dig ’em, because they just break. They’re gone.” It is in pursuit of this sub-inch accuracy that Seaworth Farms’ precision agriculture system includes dual-channel GPS receivers that receive constant real-time broadcasted correction from a stationary receiver nearby. This is the legacy of the experiments

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small correctives, tiny adjustments to their directional heading, so that they delicately lift beets from the soil. Between 2006 and 2012, usage of GPS-based precision agriculture tactics worldwide tripled; the 2.5 million farms in the U.S. and Canada accounted for more than half of overall usage. In the U

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. Just 22 percent of farms in the U.K. are using navigation satellites to increase accuracy, though that figure is slowly increasing. A survey of precision agriculture practices across the continent commissioned by the European Parliament noted a widespread skepticism of these methods among farmers in England, concluding that “there is a

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long way to go before the majority is convinced.” By 2020, the precision agriculture market (including tools that do not use GPS) will be worth $4.5 billion, and nearly 50 percent of the world’s tractors will use

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GPS. The fastest-growing market for GPS-based precision agriculture is Asia and the Pacific, where the adoption rate has been almost viral, from nearly nobody in 2006 to 17 percent of the world’s

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installed GPS precision agriculture systems in 2015, and growing at nearly twice the global rate. Evidence suggests that precision agriculture may be just as helpful for tiny farms (one or two acres) in developing nations as it is

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analyzers, rather than the expensive multi-satellite real-time corrective systems like Seaworth’s. Even on the smallest level, GPS is becoming part of a precision agriculture approach. In Uttar Pradesh, India, farmers level their fields by dragging a wooden plank behind an ox. The result is uneven, leading to an uneven

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looking. Even before it could land planes—when the system was up and running, but was not yet certified for aviation—beet farmers and other precision agriculture practitioners added WAAS to their arsenal of satellite positioning tools. When Congress held hearings to determine if the project should receive continued funding, they showed

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billion in output. 104 “there is a long way to go”: “Precision Agriculture: An Opportunity for EU Farmers,” European Parliament, Directorate-General For Internal Policies, Policy Department B, Structural And Cohesion Policies, Agriculture and Rural Development, 2014, 35–6. 104 By 2020: “Precision Farming Market by Technology (GPS/GNSS, GIS, Remote Sensing & VRT), Components

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the intricacies of Mars landings. Carol Snyder and Wade Stewart at Trimble’s agriculture division went above and beyond in giving me an introduction to precision agriculture, as did Troy Seaworth and Seaworth Farms. Thank you to Silvia McLachlan for helping me make the connections. Keith Davio arranged for me to tag

The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa

by Calestous Juma · 27 May 2017

world in terms of yield-enhancing practices and techniques, even compared to other developing regions. These practices include mechanization, use of agro-chemicals, improved seed, precision farming techniques, and increased use of irrigation.43 Mechanization is very low, with approximately 13 tractors per 100 square kilometers of arable land, versus 200 tractors

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help in more appropriate applications (e.g., split application) of organic and nonorganic fertilizer, resulting in healthier soils. It is also a key component of precision agriculture such as direct seeding, which helps to limit tillage and carbon dioxide emissions. Finally, countries such as Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia are realizing the benefits

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main objective is to implement modern practices and technologies to improve production capabilities by developing a reliable and costeffective method to monitor agriculture and introduce precision farming in Rwanda. Currently the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources is focusing on how UAVs can be used to modernize the sector. Specifically, it is

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data is for land monitoring, which includes land management practices that can help reduce degradation and soil erosion. Second, it can be used to enhance precision agriculture, which can help farmers vary the rate of input use in order to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Third, one of the most important applications

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. I. Mas, “The Economics of Branchless Banking,” Journal of Monetary Economics 4, no. 2 (2009): 57–76. 28. M. L. Rilwani and I. A. Ikhuoria, “Precision Farming with Geoinformatics: A New Paradigm for Agricultural Production in a Developing Country,” Transactions in GIS 10, no. 2 (2006): 177–197. 29. P. M. B

Investing to Save the Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference

by Alice Ross · 19 Nov 2020 · 197pp · 53,831 words

had disrupted transport and Netflix had disrupted media, agriculture was ‘the last of the large industries to really adopt new technologies and business models’. Enter precision agriculture, or precision farming methods. These use technology including drones, satellites, robots and mass-scale data collection to help farmers make sure that each plant gets the right

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson · 26 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 117,093 words

, rather than laying down a uniform amount. Drone data helps make the most of this capability, enabling farmers to move deeper into the era of precision agriculture. It’s likely that drones will soon also be used by insurance companies to assess how badly a roof was damaged after a tornado, to

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/Milking-automation-is-gaining-popularity-1568767W. 101 Ninety percent of all crop spraying: Alltech, “Drones and the Potential for Precision Agriculture,” accessed January 30, 2017, http://ag.alltech.com/en/blog/drones-and-potential-precision-agriculture. 101 “radically simplify[ing] the environment”: David H. Autor, “Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History

The Industries of the Future

by Alec Ross · 2 Feb 2016 · 364pp · 99,897 words

of freshwater used globally goes toward agriculture). The best hope for feeding our more populated world comes from the combination of big data and agriculture—precision agriculture. For thousands of years, farmers have worked using a combination of experience and instinct. For most of human history, the phases of the moon were

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for changing weather and climate conditions or the changing little details in each field; farming as an extension of the industrial age. The promise of precision agriculture is that it will gather and evaluate a wealth of real-time data on factors including weather, water and nitrogen levels, air quality, and disease

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field with a fixed amount of phosphorous or nitrogen, it will parse out the amount at the precise level needed. The early investment to make precision agriculture take root at a global scale is coming from the largest agribusinesses, including Monsanto, DuPont, and John Deere. Monsanto quickly arrived at a strong conviction

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being born specifically for the personal computer market. Monsanto, DuPont, and John Deere will have to continue to acquire the most promising start-ups, the precision-agriculture natives, if they are going to stay ahead in what will be a fast-changing field. I also think that small farmers are likely to

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derive as much benefit from precision agriculture as larger farmers with thousands of acres. Precision agriculture is not based on huge enterprise software systems that take up half the barn. That expensive software is in the cloud

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the hardware side, including the sensors, will continue to decline, and the real costs will come from subscriptions to the software as a service—the precision agriculture content. This is the business model the big agribusinesses are already pushing, and it will spread from the highest-tech farmers working huge fields to

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number one cause of death. As the population continues to grow rapidly, the task of producing enough rice, wheat, and other staples grows more difficult. Precision agriculture will not end hunger in India or turn its subsistence-level farmers into serious agribusinesses, but in an environment of scarcity, it can take those

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, the Americas, and Europe do. The budgetary resources in India are spread too thin. When precision agriculture mainstreams, it could play the role of these national networks of agronomists. The best hope for India is that precision agriculture provides a leapfrog opportunity, helping its subsistence-level farmers achieve a level of performance that is

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for feeding the hundreds of millions of people in India who don’t have enough to eat today. Precision agriculture will take farming from being an industrial age industry to a digital age industry. Precision agriculture also offers the promise of a major reduction in pollution. My adopted home state of Maryland provides an

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for farm-based nitrous oxide in any meaningful way because of the worry that regulating fertilizers would reduce the food supply and contribute to hunger. Precision agriculture offers an alternate solution. Instead of blanketing a field with a fixed amount of fertilizer, pesticide, and herbicide, new data will allow us to significantly

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that ends up in water, air, and food. By using local sensor inputs to determine just the right amount of water and fertilizer to use, precision agriculture holds the promise of growing more food while polluting less, all with the help of big data. FINTECH: THE FINANCIAL DATA SYSTEM Wall Street has

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app’s creator to sell that information. This is an area of conflict that pervades big data in almost every sector, even the field of precision agriculture. Most large agribusinesses require license agreements that allow them to own the farmer’s data and use the information in whatever way serves their purposes

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Roman Empire.” It is also the case that while the powers that be in Silicon Valley might not be the earliest movers in fields like precision agriculture, once success is achieved elsewhere, they don’t just sit back as passive bystanders and watch it grow. Google chairman Eric Schmidt recruited an Israeli

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a home to apricot and plum orchards is long past, and if it does establish itself as the source of winning investment or innovation for precision agriculture, it will contradict the idea that domain expertise will drive the industries of the future. Instead, it would suggest, as futurist Jaron Lanier has argued

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home to twice as many dairy cattle as human beings. The Kiwis know cows. While there, I learned about the impact of Pasture Meter, a precision-agriculture technology developed in Palmerston, a community of 82,000 people in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand’s North Island, more than 10,000

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, http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats. This comes in the midst of: Ulisses Mello and Lloyd Treinish, “Precision Agriculture: Using Predictive Weather Analytics to Feed Future Generations,” IBM Research, http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/precision_agriculture.shtml. It figured out that analytics: Rob Thomas and Patrick McSharry, Big Data Revolution: What Farmers, Doctors

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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford · 4 May 2015 · 484pp · 104,873 words

further demonstrated in 2013, when the company purchased eight robotics start-up companies over a six-month period. Among the companies acquired was Industrial Perception. * Precision agriculture—or the ability to keep track of and manage individual plants or even fruits—is part of the “big data” phenomenon, a subject that we

The Ages of Globalization

by Jeffrey D. Sachs · 2 Jun 2020

opportunity is improved building designs, which can greatly reduce the need for heating and cooling and thereby the demand for energy. A fourth opportunity is precision agriculture, meaning more precise applications of water and fertilizers—for example, through drip irrigation and fertigation (direct injection of the fertilizers via the irrigation system). The

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in the US, China, and elsewhere. All is not lost—not by a longshot. Humanity has the low-impact technologies (such as renewable energy and precision agriculture) and the policy knowhow needed to head off the environmental crises. We also have the benefit of global experience, if we choose to use it

50 Future Ideas You Really Need to Know

by Richard Watson · 5 Nov 2013 · 219pp · 63,495 words

02 Digital democracy 03 Cyber & drone warfare 04 Water wars 05 Wane of the West ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT 06 Resource depletion 07 Beyond fossil fuels 08 Precision agriculture 09 Population change 10 Geo-engineering THE URBAN LANDSCAPE 11 Megacities 12 Local energy networks 13 Smart cities 14 Next-generation transport 15 Extra-legal

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energy demand up by 50 percent over 2008 levels 2045 Clean energy islands built off the coast of China 2050 First commercial thorium reactor 08 Precision agriculture Global population growth (more precisely, global income growth) will challenge the ability of agriculture to deliver maximum productivity in the future, especially if climate change

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affects agricultural yields. Until quite recently farmers used experience mixed with trial and error to produce crops, but things are changing down on the farm. “Precision agriculture” is a term used to describe the use of hyperspecific GPS (global positioning systems) and digital mapping to control precisely the application of seeds, pesticides

Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

by Xiaowei Wang · 12 Oct 2020 · 196pp · 61,981 words

advantageous for XAG to be out here. There are few buildings around—it’s mainly mountains and construction sites. XAG has ambitious plans for new precision agriculture plots and vegetable beds outside its headquarters, for testing out new features on its drones. Its biggest competitor is DJI, a “unicorn” company valued at

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will tell their neighbors all about it,” the farm service company owner says. As of 2018, 5 percent of farming in China was done using precision agriculture. XAG drones are typically used by farms around three hectares in size, because of hardware constraints. Since 98 percent of farm households own small pieces

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the lobby. Next to our table is a quiet Japanese journalist who casually mentions that he is going to Xinjiang next week to report on precision agriculture in the region, a tumultuous part of the country that is responsible for 84 percent of China’s cotton production—no small feat given China