Ag Tech Sunday - The age of digital Agriculture
- By: "Farm Tender" News
- Ag Company News
- Sep 15, 2018
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With news popping up almost daily about new applications, sensors, imaging platforms, even autonomous “robotic” equipment, the ag tech space can be confusing for even the most tech-savvy farmer, whether they’re farming 10,000 acres of corn in Iowa, or 2 hectares of tomatoes and onions in India
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Given all of these new technologies, it is important to clarify terms like “digital ag” and “precision ag.” Digital ag is the use of data and advanced
computational techniques to make more informed decisions about managing our crops and agronomic operations. It encompasses all the information in the ag ecosystem, including data about the crop itself, equipment data, environmental data, operational data, and even market and logistics data.
Precision ag is about executing our agricultural plan as precisely as possible and “farming by the seed.” It is often executed by specialized equipment, encompassing how we plant, manage, and harvest that seed, as well as how we manage the soil between plantings with processes like tillage, crop rotation, cover cropping, poly cropping, etc. This specialized equipment can often then provide the data we need in digital ag to do better analysis, such as a “seed firmer” device on a precision planter giving us a high resolution soil map of the field.
Digital and precision ag combined aren’t just about higher yields, but also about being as efficient as possible, producing more with less, and in a
sustainable and reliable fashion.
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