Precision Farming: An Introduction

Abstract

Traditional arable management practice has tended to manage fields uniformly and has tended to ignore the inherent spatial variability found on most farms. This has been exacerbated by the increase of field size due to pressures from mechanization. Precision farming is a management practice that has been made possible by the advent of suitable information technologies, and it provides a framework within which arable managers can more accurately understand and control what happens on their farms.