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Precision agriculture and digital farming are on the march around the world. Technologies abound, each with a special claim of revolutionizing the way food crops are grown.

But how does one make sense of it all?

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Avatar for Kay Kay says:

Thank you for this op-ed. It does seem that the Ag media spends too much time talking about the miracles of AgTech and too little time talking about solving growers’ real needs. Here is my AgTech wish list based on what I think my clients need: 1) Cheap ($5.00-$10.00), disposable, irrigation water meters that can be used in-line; 2) In-field, instantaneous, soil-nitrate measuring devices (Note: today’s colorimetric Nitrate Quick Tests don’t qualify – they are not “quick”, easy to use, nor is the sampling result legally defensible); 3) mobile, hand-held, “instant read” soil-moisture probes (Note: lysimeters don’t qualify); and 4) <$500.00 solar-powered, in-line pumps that can meter and pump thick, emulsified polyacrylamide into high-pressure, sprinkler irrigation systems. My final wish? By law, state and federal agencies should be prohibited from collecting data if they don’t know how the data are going to be used by that agency.

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