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AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT CONSIDERS DATA-DRIVEN NUTRITION ASSISTANCE
The proposed database would help the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and its state-level partners make smarter decisions about where to invest time and money,
A New Kind Of Agriculture Replaces Intuition With Precision
The key is precision farming: the convergence of digital technology that allows farmers to apply just the right amount of fertilizer and water on their fields. Humans have practiced a rather crude form of agriculture for millennia: we douse fields to give them as much water and fertilizer as we think they need. Yet field conditions may differ drastically within a few feet.