{"id":34864,"date":"2017-02-25T02:24:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T10:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/precision-agriculture-makes-farming-more-sustainable-profitable"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:11:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:11:40","slug":"precision-agriculture-makes-farming-more-sustainable-profitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/precision-agriculture-makes-farming-more-sustainable-profitable","title":{"rendered":"Precision Agriculture Makes Farming More Sustainable, Profitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/precision-agriculture-makes-farming-more-sustainable-profitable.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Farmers have numerous sources of technology and data available to use in their operations, but many producers struggle with what kind and how much technology they need, <a href=\"http:\/\/ianrnews.unl.edu\/precision-ag-makes-farming-more-sustainable-profitable\" target=\"_blank\">according to an article on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\u2019s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding which technologies and data sets are important and how to best use them is the focus of Joe Luck\u2019s work as Nebraska Extension precision agriculture engineer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, precision ag has become a catchall term, but basically it refers to hardware and software systems that improve knowledge and decision support to make farming more manageable, sustainable and profitable,\u201d said Luck, who also is an assistant professor of biological systems engineering.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.precisionag.com\/professionals\/precision-agriculture-makes-farming-more-sustainable-profitable\/\">http:\/\/www.precisionag.com\/professionals\/precision-agricultu...rofitable\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers have numerous sources of technology and data available to use in their operations, but many producers struggle with what kind and how much technology they need, according to an article on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\u2019s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources website. Understanding which technologies and data sets are important and how to best [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34864"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58600,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34864\/revisions\/58600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}