Business intelligence is not just for big-city businesses anymore. B.I. has come to agribusiness, with farmers and cattle ranchers using many of the same tools found in numerous corporate cubicles. Thanks to everything from sophisticated tractor instruments to automated milking machines, farmers can collect all sorts of operational data in order to improve efficiency and keep production levels high.

You can read the full story over at Slashdot here of several examples of what is going on down on the farm.