Free, Online Data and Tools for the Agricultural Community

Interested in making better use of free, online data tools? Take a peek at the new factsheet with a list of some sources and how they might be used

Today’s agricultural community relies on data and tools to help support decision making at the field level. Data-driven insights help agronomists and farmers to predict what is coming, and decide how to act upon this information more effectively, which can improve on-farm decision making and execution. By integrating a farmer’s experience with data collected via cutting-edge technologies, such as drones, satellites, GPS, and high-tech sensors, decisions can be more focused (i.e., field-specific), quicker, smarter and simpler. Data and tools can help locate areas of a field suffering from stress earlier than the human eye, and can provide recommendations to boost crop yields while minimizing environmental footprints. Hence, comprehensive databases that are easily accessible are essential to the agricultural community (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Data and tools for sustainable agricultural practices.

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