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,......
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Crop data gives drought-stricken farmers a leg up on getting by with less
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 6th, 2012
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