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Grain carts are an effective way to reduce equipment wear and field compaction. Why waste expensive combine hours stopping to unload onto trucks at the end of the field? Or worse, exposing your operation to yield loss by compacting the ground with trucks in the field? Both these practices waste precious harvest time and put unnecessary wear on your equipment. Grain carts stay on the field, ...
Customization and Flexibility: The controller offers customization options to meet specific crop and field requirements. Farmers can set irrigation parameters, define zones, and adjust water distribution patterns according to the unique needs of their crops. ...
Decisive Farming combines satellite data to measure crop density and agricultural data from historic yields, along with soil sampling to help farmers manage their farm’s soil health and optimize the quality and yield of their crops. ...
Precision farming is a modern agricultural technique that uses technology to optimise crop production and reduce costs. It involves gathering as much information as possible about fields and crops in order to make data-driven decisions that will help growers to apply the right resources, in the right place, at the right time and in the right ...
In this blog post, we will discuss how to create the best and most efficient scouting reports. One of the first and oldest field data collection methods is scouting. Farmers would physically collect information by observing what is happening to their crops in the fields. ...
To know which options are right for you depends on your location, field history and crop rotation. Don’t forget that organic matter is not a one season solution. ...
Mitigates for deviations by monitoring input use analytics by field, crop and varietals. 3) Improve Management of Workers and Field Operations Efficiently overseeing the farm crew can make or break an agricultural company. ...
ByAGRIVI
Use farm management software to create the ultimate harvest prep checklist Even in that moment of relative quiet prior to harvest, the busy weeks ahead are beginning to occupy your mind. Will you be ready for everything simultaneously coming your way? Production volume, quality, people, equipment and safety all factor into what is arguably the busiest time of your year. The ability to plan ...
Efficient use of water in commercial agriculture applications enabled by the GroGuru solution keeps fertilizer in the root zone of the crop, reducing Nitrate usage and leaching into the groundwater, and providing improved management capabilities for sustainable ...
ByGroGuru
One of the most common ways for growers looking to increase their sustainability efforts is to access assistance, funding, and expertise through USDA’s Natural Resource Conservation Service. In this installment of Earth Innovations, we’re taking a look at what the NRCS offers growers and what to consider when deciding if an NRCS program is right for your farm. ...
Patrick: It’s more for commercial farmers in what they call the permanent crop business, what they call the perennial crops, which is fruit and nut trees and vineyards. A typical minimum acreage is between 20 and 40 acres. In field crops like cotton, corn, and soybeans, the typical minimum acreage is about 100 acres. ...
ByGroGuru
The staff of the Water Management Research Laboratory (USDA-ARS-Fresno) developed a highly efficient irrigation and management method which minimized and sometimes even eliminated the downward movement of soluble nitrate-N below the root zone of field crops. This high frequency subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) system should be ideal for applying WW with minimal ...
The days of sifting through multiple files and places in search of field data, crop and marketing plans and financial statements is simply no longer a viable or time efficient option for today’s farmer. ...
Tackling Malawi's Hidden Hunger through Selenium and Iodine biofortification to green vegetables and conservation agriculture (CA) field crops Introduction In sub-Saharan Africa, micronutrient deficiencies are common in poor and rural areas, due to over-farmed, depleted soils and restricted diets. ...
There are a lot of claims out there about LED and HID lighting, and as manufacturers of both, we always try to show the complete picture. In this article, we try and debunk some common statements made about both LED and HID lighting to help you make better decisions when it comes to grow light ...
After a major effort using a combination of aircraft imagery, satellite imagery and several people on the ground physically measuring soil moisture levels, researchers identified that the SMAP soil moisture program algorithm was developed using long-term average vegetation estimates, which failed to capture the large seasonal variation in crop biomass and vegetation water content ...
Ability to notify you either by email or text when treatments are required on your livestock. For the farmer who grows crops, paddock and field activities, for example, cropping and spraying would need to be recorded. ...
ByFarmRexx
However, the extrusion granulator is flat and round, so it is easy to jam the machine when the field crops are sown by machine, and the fluidity is not very good. Therefore, if it is for the organic fertilizer made by machine planting farmers, this granulation process should be used with caution. ...
As the Raindancer system has all the fields mapped, it doesn’t matter where you position the hosereel, the raingun will always adjust so the water never exceeds the boundary of the field. This saves water usage and also adds to reduce under irrigated areas in the field. As the arc of the raingun changes, so does the retraction speed of the ...
His specific professional expertise includes center pivot irrigation systems and subsurface drip variation systems. He has comprehensive field, production, and produce crop system experience as well as on-farm energy management. ...
ByGroGuru