The precision agriculture benchmark: are we there yet?

Just as we know that no two pieces of land are the same, so too do we know that every person is unique and, therefore, not all producers have the type of personality that goes hand in hand with precision farming practices. Luckily, this does not mean that only perfectionists can be precision farmers, or that you cannot be successful if you lack this trait.

You either are, or you know of, the farmer I am about to describe. He or she has years of experience and can simply go into a field, touch the ground and look at the sky, and know exactly when the conditions will be perfect for planting.

Today, a world