"What’s around the bend for precision agriculture? It’s difficult to predict precisely where precision ag will eventually flow, but without question, the current is phenomenally fast. A new information-packed report from the Context Network offers a look behind the veil and carries significant implications for growers, retailers, industry professionals, and ag companies. Looking beyond the hardware tools on ag machinery and monitoring equipment, the report details a turn toward data integration, which represents transformative shift from precision ag to decision ag. . . .
"Farming has entered a period when data convergence, collection and storage are headed toward synchronization. The computer processing power related to data enables extensive analytics and wider insights to push yields, not only on individual farms, but as an aggregate from operations with similar climates and soil types to offer benchmarking."
https://www.agweb.com/article/data-integration-leads-to-decision-ag-naa-chris-bennett/