Farming apps: Virtual fields | The Economist
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Virtual fields
Apr 30th 2013, 9:11 by C.S.-W.
DESPITE the stereotype of slack-jawed farmers bumbling around fields, farming is and always has been rooted in careful analysis of data. From deducing the best conditions to achieve bumper crop yields to keeping track of the bounty from their hectares of arable land, farmers have to deal with as much information as some City traders.