soil nutrient Articles
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Is less more? Understanding the Law of Minimum to optimize your fertilizer strategy
Identify and correct crop nutrient deficiencies in your soil to increase yield and profit Achieving prosperity in Canadian agriculture is a balancing act. While new technologies increasingly grow your potential to overcome limiting factors and boost yields, oftentimes revisiting the basics will further support your efforts to reach an optimum balance in soil nutrients. A great place to start is ...
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Simulating yield response of quinoa to water availability with aquacrop
The modeling of yield response to water is expected to play an increasingly important role in the optimization of crop water productivity (WP) in agriculture. During 3 yr (2004–2007), field experiments were conducted to assess the crop response to water stress of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) in the Bolivian Altiplano (4000 masl) under different watering conditions (from rain fed, RF, to ...
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3 Great Ways to Use Your Farm Drone During the Off-Season
You may have finished up your 2016 harvest, or perhaps getting a jump start on planning for the 2017 growing season, but think twice before putting away your farm drone for the winter. Just because you’re not actively working in the field does not mean your quad-copter shouldn’t play an active role in your off-season operations. Here are some great ways you can use your farm drone to ...
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Drones: 4 Ways Drone Technology is Revolutionizing Farm Management
If you’ve ever flown a model airplane, you can fly a drone. If you haven’t flown a model airplane… you can still fly a drone. Because of how technology has evolved, it’s now easier than ever to take advantage of the new opportunities advancing ag tech has to offer. Over the last decade, drone technology has steadily been growing as part of a practical approach to ...
By Growers
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Leaf area - How & why measuring leaf area is vital to plant research
It is easy to measure leaves, and they are also the parts of a plant most responsive to their environment. The combination of these two factors makes leaf area measurement extremely useful to scientists and growers. Besides, leaves are one of the main plant organs and are responsible for the productivity of a plant, and on a larger scale, of an ecosystem or a farm. Therefore, an understanding of ...
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Soil moisture data and Water Driven Yield Potential support confident decision making
I was introduced to Crop Intelligence and soil moisture probes in the spring of 2018 by Ryan Hutchison. That fall, I joined South Country Equipment as a Crop Intelligence Agronomist and put two stations on my family farm in SE Saskatchewan for the 2019 season. This was De Roo Family Farms first year using Crop Intelligence, but I knew we could trust the data to push our yields higher. Weather is ...
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It’ll all be for the same purpose: to maximize the yield and take care of that soil
Brad McDougald jokes that farmers can always find something to complain about. “Doesn’t matter whether it’s too warm, too dry, too cold,” McDougald says with a chuckle. This year was a dry season in Drumheller, Alta., where his 2,500-acre farm produced about 40 per cent of its regular yield of wheat, canola, peas, lentils and barley. But for all the elements outside a ...
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Multi-temporal variation in water consumption of summer maize as determined by the Water Transformation Dynamical Processes Experimental Device
A better understanding of the multi-temporal variation in evapotranspiration (ET) at different crop growth stages is the key for determining a reasonable irrigation schedule. In this study, a new device known as ‘Water Transformation Dynamical Processes Experimental Device’ (WTDPED) was used to monitor ET for maize under controlled environmental and groundwater conditions, and the ...
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Leaf Area - How & Why Measuring Leaf Area is Vital to Plant Research
What is Leaf Area? It is easy to measure leaves, and they are also the parts of a plant most responsive to their environment. The combination of these two factors makes leaf area measurement extremely useful to scientists and growers. Besides, leaves are one of the main plant organs and are responsible for the productivity of a plant, and on a larger scale, of an ecosystem or a farm. Therefore, ...
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