Electronic sensors that monitor crop, soil, and equipment characteristics and precision agricultural products, namely near-infrared crop analyzers, spectrometric crop analyzers, electronic crop analyzers, electronic soil analyzers, and global positioning sensor-based soil condition and crop monitoring systems consisting of global positioning sensing transceivers mounted to farm equipment, in situ sample soil analyzers, near-infrared crop analyzers placed in harvesting equipment that monitor the quality of the harvested crop, crop data communications systems, consisting of transceivers placed in the field which monitor the quality of a growing crop and forward that information to a monitoring station, soil data communication systems consisting of in situ soil data monitoring apparatus and transceivers capable of forwarding soil information to a monitoring station, agricultural equipment location systems consisting of global positioning sensing transceivers located on farm equipment capable of forwarding location information to a base station, and crop marketing systems consisting of near-infrared crop analyzers placed on harvesting equipment which monitor the quality of the crop and forward that information to a base station which is in turn is in contact with brokers for selling the recently harvested crop and associated software that analyzes the crop market and determines whether the crop should be sold or stored; and crop characteristic data verification systems consisting of sensors placed in storage facilities to verify the quality of the harvested crop