Precision agriculture (GPS yield monitors and autosteer)
Agricultura de precisión (GPS, monitores de rendimiento, guiado automático)
- Date
- 1994-2000 · confidence medium
- Place
- John Deere, Moline, Illinois, United States; Purdue University
- Credited to
- John Deere (GreenStar, 1997; autosteer, 2002); Ag Leader (yield monitor, 1992); Trimble
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
Tractors and combine harvesters guided by centimetre-precision GPS that record the yield of every metre and apply seed and fertiliser at variable rates. They turned farming into a data-driven activity.
What it led to
- Autonomous tractors and farm data as an asset
- Reduced input use and the digital mapping of every field
- The dispute over the right to repair machinery
Built on
Made possible
- autonomous tractors
- agricultural drones
- variable-rate input application