ABSTRACT
Activities of interest are farm management itself, crop management, machinery management, and labor management. Four major electronic developments changed agricultural mechanization: Tractors, Planters, Sprayers, and Combine harvesters. During 1980s, two other major developments took place on farms: On-farm data processing, and Implement control. Data transfer to the farm management system and mapping software is part of the yield monitoring system. Owing to the fact that agricultural irrigation accounts for the largest part of water consumption worldwide, different attempts have been made to increase water efficiency. From a farmer's business point of view, beet should grow as long as there is no frost, but from the sugar mill point of view, the request is to start as early as possible with processing to arrive at a long processing time with lowest costs per sugar unit.
