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ISU researchers building cyber-physical system to monitor crops, boost yields

After decades of growing corn and soybean yields across the Midwest’s Corn Belt, per-acre yields are approaching their theoretical limits. But there’s still a need for more grain to feed people and livestock.

Where can that grain come from? How can farmers and fields produce even more? Is there a new, sustainable way to boost productivity?

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