Many agricultural fields possess a high degree of spatial variability in soil test phosphorus (STP) that can affect crop yield, according to Steve Phillips, Director, International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) North America Program. Spatial variability of nutrients in the field results from changes in soil type, topography, previous cropping history, and many other factors. Common practices like composite soil […]

  Brownfield’s Meghan Grebner interviews Purdue University’s Bruce Erickson. An agronomist says in today’s agriculture environment it’s even more important for growers to know which management practices work and which ones don’t on their farm. Purdue University’s agronomy education distance and outreach director Bruce Erickson says precision tools don’t just allow producers to shave input […]

Modern farming combines a range of new technologies and innovative systems developed specifically for agriculture such as yield monitoring, with preexisting tools adopted from other industries, for example, satellite imagery and various, non-orbital remote sensing systems. Precision agriculture is heavily based on data collection, computation, and data analyses to enable improved, data-driven and local, agronomic […]

So that headline sounds somewhat dark and ominous, doesn’t it? The thing about it is that it’s actually been happening for some time now. When you look at all the data that has been somewhat carelessly created by the various machines and controllers out there, it made me think that most of it is wasted […]

Development of modern agriculture is occurring at a time of massive adoption of information technologies. To increase the efficiency of resource utilization and environmental savings, the merging of information technologies and intensive crop production systems has resulted in the concept of precision agriculture. Ranging from automatic navigation systems to remote sensing, some elements of precision […]

Soil fertility and proper nutrient management are key to both profitable and sustainable food production in today’s agricultural systems. The use of soil testing is the foundation for proper nutrient management. Proper sample collection coupled with quality chemical analysis provides the farmers the information they need to make fertilizer application decisions. Ward Laboratories uses standard […]

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Sourse: www.jamestownsun.com Raj Khosla, professor of precision agriculture at Colorado State University, challenged farmers to think about how far the technology of agriculture has come in the past 40 years to gauge what farming will look like in 2057. He showed a picture of a Global Positioning System receiver from 1976 to farmers and ag […]