Agriculture marches to its own version of Moore’s Law, with crop productivity steadily increasing for decades. While past improvements were the result of better plant hybrids, fertilization and production equipment, information technology will be the key to sustaining and perhaps accelerating agricultural productivity. Precision agriculture, a collection of data collection, analysis and prediction technologies that looks like something out of Google, not John Deere, describes a group of technologies designed to collect and analyze detailed information about growing and crop conditions that feed complex models designed to provide actionable recommendations to improve yields and reduce costs. A complex problem that combines sensor technology, data collection, crop modeling and predictive analytics, the computational elements of precision agriculture are ideal for cloud deployment.

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