Site-specific farming is dependent on having large amounts of reliable data
. The gap between acquiring this information and using it effectively in ma
king agricultural management decisions has widened. Collecting only the dat
a that can be used effectively for management decisions is important. lit t
his paper we identify the data needed to make site-specific management deci
sions, describe traditional and non-traditional data collection methods, di
scuss how these data might be used in the decision making process, and iden
tify future needs.