Precision Agriculture
From Guesswork to Gigabytes: How Smart Soil Sensors Are Rewriting the Rules of Irrigation
A new generation of IoT-connected soil sensors, paired with machine learning algorithms, is enabling US farmers to make irrigation decisions with a level of precision that was unimaginable a decade ago. Across the corn and wheat belts, mid-sized operations are reporting water savings of up to 40 percent — and agronomists say the technology has finally matured enough to deliver on promises that once seemed premature. This is the story of how data is displacing instinct on the American farm.