Precision farming is a form of multidisciplinary and technologically advanced agriculture, which recourses to machines equipped with "intelligent systems," able to dose the productive factors (fertilizers, pesticides, etc.) according to the real needs of the homogeneous areas constituent to the plot (Verhagen and Bouma, Modeling soil variability. In: Pierce FJ, Sadler EJ (eds) The state of site specific management for agriculture. ASA Publications, 1997)
