With these systems available farmers can check soil for nutrients and nitrogen, monitor and manage crops, create fields and drainage ways all with the advancement of technology. Technologies can help fine-tune farm input, make farms bigger, increase leisure time and makes it possisble for farmers to hire less people. Conservation for Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education. Computers in Farming. Callaway, Brett M., Charles A. Francis.
Biotechnology ranges over every area of lievestock.
Biotechnology is helping to alter muscle development, increase growth hormone, increase the number of genes, resistance to viral infection, and produce higher protein milk. In sustainable agriuclture the uses of biotchnology can be seen almost everywhere. We are seeing a slow increase in the amount of biotchnology currently being used in agriculture. The use of artifical insemination is a widley used process in livestock production. The ablitiy of the rancher or farmer to inseminate the female with sperm from a male that is thousand of miles away greatly increases the chance of having better animals.