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Issue Position: Optimal Use of New Farming Technologies

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2015
Issues: Technology and Communication Agriculture and Food

Exploration of emerging technologies in agriculture to help farmers increase productivity and meet the demand for increasing manual labor with implementation of:

* Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to monitor real-time crop health and improve swath control of large fields
* Farm automation including agricultural robots, precision agriculture, and equipment telematics for harvesting, fruit picking, plowing, soil maintenance, planting, irrigation, etc.


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