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weed control and integrated pest management. His project, backed by#166,563 of funding from the EU's Marie Curie Actions fellowship programme,
pollution and promote sustainable agriculture. While these negative effects are known, the impact of this trend in Asia is undocumented still largely,
#Precision agriculture moves farmers into the high tech age The U s. has seen record-setting drought in recent years.
The key is precision farming: the convergence of digital technology that allows farmers to apply just the right amount of fertilizer and water on their fields.
In Idaho, the nonprofit is collaborating with Millercoors to support farmers who upgrade their irrigation systems to new precision agriculture systems.
Yet the promise of precision agriculture is to find the right mix of profit and environmental protection. e are also seeing a changing of the guard,
#Prescriptive planting technology is set to disrupt the farming industry The word innovation usually brings to mind small startups doing clever things with cutting-edge technology.
so it is no surprise that they are nervous about a new idea called prescriptive planting,
Monsanto prescriptive planting system, Fieldscripts, had its first trials last year and is now on sale in four American states.
Prescriptive planting is catching on fast. Last November another seed producer, Du pont Pioneer, linked up with a farm machinery maker, John Deere,
But the story of prescriptive planting is also a cautionary tale about the conflicts that arise when data entrepreneurs meet old-fashioned businessfolk.
the prescriptive planting firms might even use the data to buy underperforming farms and run them in competition with the farmers;
For the time being, though, the biggest companies will dominate prescriptive planting. They collect the most comprehensive data and make better use of them than anyone else.
Prescriptive planting could boost yields everywhere, just as mass, anonymised patient records could improve health care. But its success depends on service providers persuading users (farmers
Precision agriculture: Farming management based on observing (and responding to) intra-field variations. With satellite imagery and advanced sensors, farmers can optimize returns on inputs while preserving resources at ever larger scales.
An expert on sustainable agriculture and the potential environmental risks of biotechnology Mellon holds a doctorate in molecular biology and a law degree.
The North Central Sustainable agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and the Conservation Technology Information center conducted the survey of more than 759 commercial farmers from winter 2012 through spring 2013.
#Precision farming Gains Global Foothold (Op-Ed) Lloyd Treinish leads the environmental science team in the Industry Solutions Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research center.
A co-developer of IBM's Deep Thunder precision agriculture system he contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
Fueling better farming is a practice known as precision agriculture which uses extensive data from a farmer's field
Precision agriculture can help farmers from Brunei to Brazil pinpoint the best time for harvesting to mitigate crop damage and loss;
Precision agriculture helps address that problem by improving weather forecasting and modeling and localizing it even within a particular farm.
At IBM we developed a precision agriculture weather-modeling service using Deep Thunder our Big data analytics technology for local customized high-resolution and rapid weather predictions.
a partnership to promote sustainable agriculture in Africa. The mapping project, called the African Soil Information Service,
Precision agriculture will allow us to optimize resources so that it should be possible to deliver 70 percent more food on the land we have today.
Saturas'precision agriculture sensing system comprises of miniature implanted sensors wireless transponders and delivery of information to the farmer's Internet device:
precision agriculture is a welcome tool: We stand for sustainable agriculture, so we try to make the most of technology in each case,
while of course ensuring that it doesn't infringe human rights or have long-term environmental effects like GMOS,
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