Sentences with phrase «of precision agriculture»

Better efficiencies have been achieved in multiple ways, ranging from the use of precision agriculture technology to optimally timed fertilizer additions and crop demand, to comparatively low - tech solutions such as the use of cover crops that reduce nutrient losses.

«The really clear thing is the importance of precision agriculture, in which agrochemicals are used as efficiently as possible, with as little runoff as possible.»

Not exact matches

While she hasn't had a chance to build one yet, she has designed systems for a wide variety of industries including aerospace, mining, and precision agriculture.

Proposal: Financing precision agriculture in Canada Members: Srijan Agrawal, Francois du Toit & Michael Szaura School: Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto

Low corn prices, challenges in valuing their biotech pipeline and the difficulty of quantifying upside from precision agriculture have caused Monsanto to sell for materially less than our estimate of its intrinsic business value.

Cassman, K. G. Ecological intensification of cereal production systems: Yield potential, soil quality, and precision agriculture.

He added: «New techniques such as precision agriculture (PA) offer the possibility of targeted applications of chemicals: for example, robots could give doses of herbicide at the level of individual plants.

And precision agriculture, a subdomain of agricultural engineering, which involves the use of satellites and artificial neural networks among others, is often employed to spot crop stress and make adjustments to irrigation and fertilization regimens.

However, the findings were encouraging, Sowers said, and the potential financial rewards should motivate researchers and crop producers to explore opportunities to apply precision agriculture techniques to the management of hand - picked and specialty crops.

In addition, Rovira explains that a collateral effect, but positive for Europe, is the attractiveness of the application of new technologies in the field - robotics, precision agriculture and information technologies - for young farmers, «as the high average age of farmers is a recurring matter of concern in industrialised countries.»

«Robotics and precision agriculture provide producers with powerful tools in order to improve the competitiveness of their farms.

Section 333 of P.L. 112 - 95 provides the FAA the authority to authorize commercial UAS operations, including real estate photography, precision agriculture, and infrastructure inspection, among others, without having to comply with all pre-existing rules that were developed principally for manned aviation operations.

Methods such as accurate water measurement and soil moisture monitoring, laser - leveling fields, using conservation tillage to retain soil moisture, switching to low energy precision application sprinklers, lining canals, and employing subsurface drip irrigation where possible could save upwards of 40 percent of agriculture's water use while improving crop yields and saving energy.

Delivering services in urban areas, collection of data for a wide range of industries, infrastructure inspections, precision agriculture, transportation and logistics are just some of the possible applications of this technology.

A recent forecast predicts that by 2020 the global drone market size will grow by 42 % in precision agriculture, 26 % in media and entertainment, by 36 % in inspection and monitoring of infrastructures, and by 30 % for leisure activities.

There is a lot of competition in areas such as real estate and videography, but not a great deal of competition in the more data - heavy applications like inspection, point - cloud mapping, high - precision mapping and agriculture, said Harris.