For generations, deciding when to water a field came down to habit. Farmers followed the calendar, watched the crop, squeezed ...

Agriculture drinks roughly seventy percent of the world’s freshwater, and every drop counts. As water scarcity tightens its ...

Proposed sensing system. a) Overview of the proposed sensing system with degradable sensor devices. b) When power is wirelessly supplied to the degradable sensor devices placed on the soil, the device ...

A multi-institutional study led by University of Illinois and Agroecosystem Sustainability Center (ASC) scientists concluded that, although soil moisture varies significantly both within a single ...