Precision Agriculture
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The model year 2013 machines incorporate multiple aspects for operator safety.
Among the features of the new precision ag product are module-based software, and a lighter hardware package, a senior product manager says.
As a corn and soybean producer, Jerome Tschetter says, it has benefited operation to embrace the latest products technology has to offer.
Advanced sprayer technology, folding corn head and tools to make your data work harder highlight new enhancements.
From boom priming and a nozzle control system to multiple camera functions, the six new sprayer products will be further field-tested this year.
As marketing manager Ryan Jardon explains, this lineup features improved efficiencies with more horsepower and hydraulic capabilities.
For the past year and a half, AEM has helped spearhead a study to quantify how technology used in agriculture improves environmental stewardship including reduction in carbon, water quality, and more.
What’s around the bend for precision agriculture? A new information-packed report from the Context Network carries significant implications for growers, retailers, industry professionals, and ag companies.
The first four-year precision agriculture degree program in the United States is set to kick off at South Dakota State University in September 2016.
The promise of precision agriculture to find the sweet spot between hardware and agronomics, under the banner of simplicity, hasn’t arrived.
Guesswork is a bedfellow of loss.
A web-based nitrogen fertilizer calculator for small grains has been updated and is available. Developed by Montana State University Extension, the tool works with winter wheat, spring wheat and barley produced after fallow. Available since 2009, the calculator was enhanced in 2015.
WM-Form, launched by Trimble, combines field surveys, topography analysis, design creation, cost estimation, land forming and verification.
New report looks beyond hardware tools and details a turn toward data integration.
It’s a weather package delivered right to a grower’s doorstep.
What’s around the bend for precision agriculture? A new information-packed report from the Context Network carries significant implications for growers, retailers, industry professionals, and ag companies.
Granular, a software and analytics company that provides a farm management platform for farmers, is one company leading the charge to offer producers new software tools.
In a huge expansion of their precision agriculture presence, Topcon has scooped up Digi-Star, a leading ag company related to weight sensors and control systems for equipment manufacturers.
Peter Blezard believes the most significant technological leap in agriculture for 100 years is waiting on the cusp of farmland -- nitrogen fixation. If he’s correct, agriculture may have an opportunity to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use by 50% in all major global food crops within a decade.
Management zones are the foundation of a good soil fertility program. Uniform fields are a rarity, and growers need to manage land according to soil variability.
Watch a video ride-and-drives featuring both machines.
A line-of-sight propane tank monitor called Tank Q is the invention of Ohio man, Chris Clabaugh.
All those late nights and countless hours spent in the cab may be a thing of the past sooner than you think.
The foundation of success with high populations is hybrid selection, says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie.
The value of zone management goes beyond cutting input costs; it also allows farmers to effectively focus inputs and attention. If you don’t have background information on a field, then grid-based management does the job, says Brad Beutke, who helps with the Farm Journal Test Plots and farms near Clinton, Ill. “But if you have yield history, calibrated yields maps, soil surveys, elevation maps or aerial imagery, for example, then it’s worth the effort to take advantage of the data.” Instead of trying to randomize out variability with a super-imposed grid, zone management uses historical data and experience to pave a path. Regardless of where you are on the technology adoption curve, zone management is beneficial.
Historical data and experience divide fields based on natural variability, characteristics
The Farm Journal Test Plot team makes it a priority to take the latest technology tools to the field for first-hand experience.
Precision agriculture certainly holds strong promise for farmers. The problem is that the experience of using it often turns out to be something less than idyllic.
Improperly calibrated yield monitors can essentially generate difficult to interpret or useless data.