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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by danans on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @01:52PM (#21205841)
Much more precise usage of water/fertilizer to optimize yield/input can be enabled by computation and data.
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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by kevan on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:09PM (#21206065)
Precision Agriculture[1] is the term for anyone looking to learn more. Even small farms now track all inputs/outputs on every acre they farm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_agriculture

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Re:Americans Are Using Less Steel, Paper, Fertilizer, and En... by kube-system on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:30PM (#21206337)
The Land O Lakes CEO was showing this off on 60 minutes just this past week.

Check out 5:22 in the video here:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/land-olakes-ceo-beth-ford-and-t...

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