
Dr. Robert Paarlberg: Resetting the Table
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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Is Agriculture Going Forward?
The robotic revolution in agriculture has actually gone quite aways already, into the harvesting of delicate, perishable products like strawberries. We also need to help farmers with solutions to very complicated management problems. I was astounded in writing my book, i paid a visit to a corn and soibean farm eastern indiana. They had an ar t k base station on their farm, which sent correction signals to the incoming g p s signals. This allowed their equipment in the field to know their precise location with sub inch accuracy. It'sa that kind of precision is is something that no one d dream of 20 years ago. But for large, highly capitalized farms, it's becoming, its
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