Precision Circle Cropping

Mount a rail on the legs of a center pivot with provision to power a crop tending robot. This automated tender would sweep back and forth across the field like a printer head planting weeding, controlling pests and fungi and monitoring the crop throughout the field. Equipped with optical sensors and a manipulator arm this field bot would perform precise maintenance over giant fields allowing the production of crops that could formerly only be tended by hand labor. Precise application of water and chemical and mechanical control of weeds and pests reduces environmental impact while allowing production of cash crops in a field setting. Harvest could be achieved in the usual manner but now aided by a precise map of ripeness. Some assembly required.