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Farming by the Inch |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: Chris J. Johannsen |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,993 Words, 20,924 Characters |
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Just as surely as the early twentieth century saw the tractor displace the horse that pulled the plow, the early twenty-first century is likely to see advanced electronic technologies displace the human who drives the tractor.vbcrlf While the human tractor driver is not yet dispensable, his judgment functions are quickly being taken over by electronic machines. To suggest that computers will soon be driving tractors is much too simple and loses sight of the disparate yet highly synergistic technologies that are converging in the farmer's field.vbcrlf The new technologies, which open the way for customizing the treatment accorded each square yard of land in the field, are giving birth to a new mode...
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.... Entire fields become test plots!vbcrlf Precision farming will make a strong impact on the way farmers manage their farm operations in the future. We will see a steady growth of the remote-sensing, GIS, and GPS technologies as a result of this method of "farming by the inch." The future of the farm will be driven by many of these technologies. vbcrlf
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