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Locust swarms can wipe out crops across entire regions, threatening food supplies and livelihoods. Now, scientists working with farmers in Senegal have shown that improving soil health can ...

BYU Field of the Future. Produced by BYU Video. A wheat field near Elberta, Utah, just became the most technically sophisticated wheat field on earth, thanks to a talented team of BYU professors and ...

Calibrate your sensor for your specific soil type. Record sensor values for “dry” and “fully wet” conditions and adjust thresholds in code. Optionally, use the map() function to create a more accurate ...

Over the last decade, the open-source movement has not only transformed the world of software, but also catalyzed a sweeping revolution in hardware tinkering. At the heart of this shift lies a ...

Soil health and moisture availability are critical for sustainable agricultural productivity, especially in the face of increasing climate variability and land degradation. This Coordinated Research ...

This article is part of "Build IT: Connectivity," a series about tech powering better business. Stakes are high for farmers. Surveys have found they're eager to save time, cut costs, and use resources ...

Earth has lost enough soil moisture in the last 40 years to change the planet’s spin and shift the location of the North Pole, according to a new study published today in Science that tracks how human ...