Month: October 2015

Precision farming Precision farming – also called precision agriculture, smart farming or smart agriculture – has been around since the late 90s and stems from a simple observation: over the past few decades, in order to cope with ever expanding demand on productivity, farmers have been dealing with fields that grew larger and larger. Most of the time however, the latter are treated as single uniform areas, without taking into consideration potential local variations of different factors such as soil types, availability of nutrient, temperature, etc. This often results in non-optimized use of resources such as water, fertilizers, or...