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Some of the newer farm equipment can actually apply different amounts of fertilizer (or whatever) to different parts of the same field, based on GPS and a grid
by Turing_Machine 4y ago
Some of the newer farm equipment can actually apply different amounts of fertilizer (or whatever) to different parts of the same field, based on GPS and a grid of soil samples.
- whalesalad 4y agoThis is precision ag and it’s been around for quite some time.
- hinkley 4y agoSomeone wa pitching a project for this when I was at NCSA (which was less than two miles from corn fields) in the 90’s, as Netscape was taking over browser development and they needed something else to do (NSF is not fond of competing with commercial interests.) That would have been an excellent match but I was barely interested and others were less enthusiastic. They started a collaborative software project instead. Which was cool but CRDT wouldn’t be invented for another five to ten years so I wonder what happened with that project.