Farming decisions made field by field, sometimes meter by meter, using GPS guidance, sensors and yield mapping to put seed, water and fertilizer only where and when each patch of ground needs them, instead of applying one uniform rate across a whole field. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Practice ClassPrecision and data-driven farming 1 OriginEnabled by GPS becoming available for civilian use from the 1980s and 1990s and by the spread of yield-monitoring combines and variable-rate applicators through the 1990s; still expanding with drone and satellite imagery and machine-learning-guided decisions. 1 Connections
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Weather and sensor data together drive precision agriculture's field-level decisions
Source Agrometeorology (Wikipedia)
Yield-mapping combines were among the first machines to put precision agriculture data collection into ordinary farm use.
Source Wikipedia: Precision agriculture
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1. Wikipedia: Precision agriculture
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- Associated With: Combine Harvester
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