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GPS Meets Agriculture for Precision Farming

Posted by Hemos on from the put-the-seed-at-31'-02-29-43 dept.

mskfisher writes "NASA Science News is reporting a story on a NASA project called Ag20/20, which involves farmers using GPS-aided crop and field analysis to improve accuracy and yields. Instead of blanketing the whole area with a set level of pesticide or fertilizer, they can now vary it via computer, based on IR and soil data gathered from aircraft, satellites, and tractor-mounted sensors."

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  1. What I wonder is... by FakePlasticDubya · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will this improve the quality of crop circles?

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  2. The man by DCram · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just another example of the man keeping the farmer down. First its GPS. Then its fences around the field. Next comes the little collars that were in that prison movie with Rutger Hauer that we can trigger to blow from space.

    While we are on that space theme i would like to say i would like to see a big laser make popcorn out of a whole field of corn almost like that real genious movie. Now that would be cool.

    WAIT!!

    Could that be why we are GPS'n the fields?

    Mmmmmmmm...popcorn.

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  3. Re:GPS Dog Collar? by SILIZIUMM · · Score: 2, Funny

    Satisfied, he'll glance around his burgeoning field. "But wait," he wonders, suddenly puzzled, "where did my dog go?" Fingers snap. "I must've forgot his GPS collar again!"

    GPS jewels could be useful for (say) your girlfriend. Imagine, you go with her to the shopping center and suddenly you realize that she's gone somewhere else while you were looking at (say) computer games. Hence, you fire up your GPS reciver and trace your girlfriend in the shopping center :)