Guardian: The device keeping disaster away from Glenn Cox's farm in this summer's devastating drought could well be the laptop on his kitchen counter. A few keystrokes and eventually his painfully slow dial-up connection pulls up graphs tracking temperature and moisture levels from his corn and peanut fields. The real-time feed gives Cox an advantage over farmers across a vast swathe of the mid-west who are preparing to give up on their crops. It's taken away the guess work. He knows where to water,...
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/06/data-drought-stricken-farming
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