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1. Agricultural Automation

   Fundamentals and Practices

   Edited by Qin Zhang, Francis J. Pierce

   Agricultural automation is the core technology for computer-aided agricultural production management and implementation. An integration of equipment, infotronics, and precision farming technologies, it creates viable solutions for challenges facing the food, fiber, feed, and fuel needs of the human...

   Published March 21st 2013 by CRC Press
2. GIS Applications in Agriculture

   Edited by Francis J. Pierce, David Clay

   Series: GIS Applications in Agriculture

   The increased efficiency and profitability that the proper application of technology can provide has made precision agriculture the hottest developing area within traditional agriculture. The first single-source volume to cover GIS applications in agronomy, GIS Applications in Agriculture examines...

   Published February 12th 2007 by CRC Press
3. Contemporary Statistical Models for the Plant and Soil Sciences

   By Oliver Schabenberger, Francis J. Pierce

   Despite its many origins in agronomic problems, statistics today is often unrecognizable in this context. Numerous recent methodological approaches and advances originated in other subject-matter areas and agronomists frequently find it difficult to see their immediate relation to questions that...

   Published November 12th 2001 by CRC Press
4. Advances in Soil and Water Conservation

   By Francis J. Pierce

   Advances in Soil and Water Conservation provides an in-depth, scholarly treatment of the most important developments and influences shaping soil and water conservation in the last 50 years. The book addresses the technological developments of erosion processes, methods for their control, policy and...

   Published January 31st 1998 by CRC Press