Practices

Precision Agriculture

Also Known As Precision farming; site-specific crop management

Citation Formats

General Reference

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. "Precision Agriculture." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/practices/precision-agriculture.

APA Style

Agriculture and Farming Atlas. (n.d.). Precision Agriculture. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/practices/precision-agriculture

BibTeX

@misc{agricultureandfarmingatlas-precision-agriculture,
  author = {Agriculture and Farming Atlas},
  title = {Precision Agriculture},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-agriculture.interactiveatlas.org/practices/precision-agriculture},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Farming decisions made field by field, sometimes meter by meter, using GPS guidance, sensors and yield mapping to put seed, water and fertilizer only where and when each patch of ground needs them, instead of applying one uniform rate across a whole field.

Facts

Practice Class

Precision and data-driven farming 1

Origin

Enabled by GPS becoming available for civilian use from the 1980s and 1990s and by the spread of yield-monitoring combines and variable-rate applicators through the 1990s; still expanding with drone and satellite imagery and machine-learning-guided decisions. 1

Cross-Tradition Connections