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Why Satellites Are The New God For Farmers

Michael Zhao June 18, 2011 11:20 AM

Farmers have been using GPS-tracking to better organise their fields for a while but now they have a new god who watches them from space: Satellites that tell them exactly what they need to make perfect crops.

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