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Download PDF Crop monitors and drones are aiding precision farming across the globe. CPM takes a look at some of the latest and greatest tech on the market. As farm sizes increase and labour units per ha decline, the risk of losing crops because a problem has not been identified quickly enough will increase. By Charlotte Cunningham Most of us will have an old phone sitting in a drawer somewhere. No camera, certainly no mobile data connection, and if you’ve had it for a really long time, it may be of similar size to your face, with a pull-out aerial intact. So it’s perhaps rather mind-boggling to think that these are still around at a time where we now have tiny little devices flying through the sky, telling us everything we need to know about our crops. Precision farming is now standard practice on many farms, with growers able to measure exactly what’s happening in a field at any given moment thanks to the rapid development and accessibility of crop monitors and drones. This, combined with expert support from agronomists, is widely accepted to be driving better decision making and more efficient and cost-effective input decisions. But in a fast-moving…
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