Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files=== Precision Farming === Precision agriculture is a method of production in which an area of land is not uniformly, but site specifically cultivated. Pest-control, crop-protection, soil-treatment and fertilizing are done time-and-place specific and on the basis of detailed records of previous years. This is made possible by **Soil Scanners**,**Remote Sensing** and **Global Positioning Systems**. Land can be treated with centimeter precision. This method can greatly reduce the use of pesticides (25%) and fertilizer. Geo-referenced soil maps are built up over the years. By overlapping these charts the farmer gets a new picture of his lands and with harvest data systems a new picture of his yields. {{:geomap.jpg|}} from: soilcompany.nl * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_agriculture|Wikipedia page]] * [[http://agriconenergy.blogspot.com/2007/08/precision-farming.html| blog post]] == Problems == Intense farming is associated with high efficiency, these extreme monocultures are now associated with the scarcity of bees. These insects depend upon wildflowers for most of their food. In Precision agriculture there are no patches of wildflowers along the edges of fields. The lack of wildflowers is thought to be one of the contributing factors to colony collapse disorder. See [[bee_keeping]]Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International precision_farming.1220629399.txt.gz Last modified: 2008-09-05 15:43by 87.210.198.207