How are computers used in agriculture?

Question

I have to do a seminar in this topic and I cant find info anywhere. It would be helpful to get some websites which give information. Wikipedia does not give info on how computers are used in agriculture. I want information that I can use in a seminar please not reports of how computers were used in agriculture in each country.....

extra information: Land management

Lifestock

Milk production

Use of satellite imagery to decide on crops

I also need pictures of these topics to make a powerpoint

Answer 1

computers are used in much the same way in ag. as for other business.  One place you might not expect to find them though is on a tractor. Some farms now have tractors equiped with gps that are able to drive themselves. No I'm not talking about turning it on, and letting it plow while the farmer sets in the shade, it still needs a driver, but the gps unit is able to keep the rows straight (within inches), and when spraying, theres no missed spots, and little waist of the chemical because the ends of the spray do not overlap.

Answer 2

Hydroponic systems can be set up to monitor ph levels and adjust the ph in your reserve tank, and it can also send a text alert via email or to your phone if one of the preset "alarms" are triggered (such as low solution level in tank, voltage loss, or smoke detector activation)

Answer 3

It doesn't matter what profession you claim, if once you relied on paper and a pen to keep track of what you do and what you did you now do it on a computer. The modern farmer is not the old dirt farmer with uneducated family and barefoot/ pregnant wife. They are college educated and computer reliant. Spread sheets keep track of the day to day information of expenses, harvests (per any portion of the acreage), sales, anything and everything. That is a real chore in the old legal sized "books". For information retrieval, crop issues, equipment issues, bill payments, any form of needed information can be seconds away, not a drive to the country store in town with hope of meeting good ol' Harlan at the "coffee and grain". The management ability afforded all businesses by computer is surely not lost on the farm(er). Add to that the satellite link in the high end equipment that monitors the use and maintenance of the massive harvesters as well as the land use and land navigation that tracks harvest information, field work (material application of fertilizer/ agri. chems.) and the computer become a very powerful tool. Computers and electronics go way beyond all this, see a couple basic links below.

Answer 4

I know that Food Network's Unwrapped shows much things like that. People use computers to test the food to see the quality and if it's safe, and the amount of one thing in a product. They also use it to calculate math that needs to be done, like land area and the mass of something, and using computers to help in the production of food, like using it to control a machine. That's all I know for the time being.

Answer 5

In the US, many milking machines are set on computerized systems that will put on and take off the milkers without human assistance.  Also, PDA's are used to track animals and store data. Computers are also used to keep records, make calculations, etc. Animals have been implanted with RFID chips, and they have to be scanned when transported across state lines (to reduce the spread of Mad cow disease).

Answer 6

try this link.  i use this computer software every day.

you could even call the company and ask them some questions.

http://www.feedsupervisor.com/