6Precision Agriculture:Mobile Use Trends To Watch

摘要

PERHAPS no segment of farming is benefitting more from the ubiquitous power of mobile technology than precision agriculture. Just think about it — complete mobility to be able to monitor, store and share information at anytime, anywhere in the worldvia a smartphone or tablet has taken precision agriculture to another level.In fact, the mobile device was ranked the No. 1 technology to watch in the Fall 2013 PrecisionAg Special Report (PASR), ahead of other top trends like variable-rate seeding and unmanned aerial systems. "I do feel smart devices will continue to be adaptedby agriculture," said Tim Norris, manager of Ag Info Tech, in the PASR article. "It's technology that people seem to have already, so telemetry and data transfer with those devices makes sense to me."