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A Cheap Soil Sensor Saved My Fragile Houseplants. Here's How ...

Plant diseases limit the output of agricultural workers and cause hundreds of billions of dollars in global crop production loss each year. When plants get wet they are at risk of contracting diseases ...

Increasingly limited land and water resources have inspired the development of precision agriculture, which is the use of remote sensing technology to monitor air and soil environmental data in real ...

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Smart irrigation has evolved well beyond programmable hose timers. Today's systems can monitor soil moisture, detect rainfall ...