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Just read “Planting Corn at Warp Speed Using High-Tech Tools/A Faster Way to Sow Crops Is Changing Farming” (subscription required)
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When I read this article, I was stunned!
“... growers invest in more-sophisticated machinery to rapidly sow crops in narrow windows of favorable weather.”
“[a farmer] spent $15,000 to retrofit his John Deere 8300 tractor with a Global Positioning System that uses satellites to steer automatically, monitor seed rates and gather and store planting data.”
“... one of the new high-tech tools that helped corn farmers sow 30% of this year's U.S. crop in a single week, covering an area roughly the size of New York, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”
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