Netizen: Farm

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Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Robotic Farming

This robot blends in. It looks like a small tractor.

A Nimble-Wheeled Farm Robot Goes to Work in Minnesota

Corn is planted on 100 million acres in the United States, and nitrogen fertilizer runoff is a major pollution problem. .... GPS-guided tractors routinely apply seed and fertilizer across large areas, and new airborne drones are providing farmers with high-resolution sensing ability ..... the ability to apply fertilizer at precise times and locations is “very critical.” ..... The next step is to deploy multiple Rowbots on industrial-scale farms, and to add more sensing capacity to the machines. The company is also testing using them for planting seed on cornfields for fall crops, called cover crops, while the mature corn is still standing.

Agricultural Drones

the vanguard of farmers who are using what was once military aviation technology to grow better grapes using pictures from the air, part of a broader trend of using sensors and robotics to bring big data to precision agriculture.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Ingress: Four Grant's Tombs In Jackson Heights

When I hit L8, Grant's Tomb up there by Columbia was the top farm for L8 farming. It was small and compact. There were 16 portals to harvest. I did many many train rides to attend L8 farm events there. And now there are four similar compact farms on my home territory of Jackson Heights on stretches that were practically portal-free at the time.

Saturday, July 13, 2013

Ingress: I Will Be Back

I will be back to fight the evil forces on both sides.

Friday, July 12, 2013

Ingress: Temporarily Banned

Request to Niantic: Please please please introduce a Block User feature on the COMM so it is easier for me to get the miscreants out of my Ingress universe. Until then I am going to try and avoid the COMM, but it is hard to not use the COMM when you are trying to build a team, which is what my next big push is. Some idiots of timtomhuze have actively been interfering by engaging in harassment, demonization and the like in the past when I have tried to talk to my local agents. I hope they also got your emails.