grower monitoring Articles
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2022 AlmondBeat: Prepare for Hull-split by listening to your trees - and the soil
In California and the northern hemisphere, nut fill has finished for most varieties of almonds, and hull split strategies are in place to get ready for harvest. Good hull split strategy is crucial for achieving a uniform hull split in each block, leading to more efficient shakes while avoiding navel orangeworm (NOW) and the costly spray programs required to manage it. During hull-split, many ...
By Phytech
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Forest & Plant Canopy Analysis - Tools & Methods
Canopy Analysis for Crop, Forest & Plant Research The range of applications of canopy cover analysis is truly astounding. Canopy analysis derives its usefulness from the vitality of the canopy. Many methods to measure canopy cover have been developed in the last 80 years to meet various objectives. Not surprisingly, there have been several comparisons of the tools in different parts of the ...
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Tackle Vineyard Variability with Vine Health Predictions
Variability in vine vigour and grape composition makes it difficult for growers to meet uniform quality specifications from winemakers. As a result, growers often have the opportunity to make up to AU$2,155 per hectare for reducing variability. Vineyard variability is driven by climate, features of the land (e.g. topography and soil composition, including moisture content and nutrient ...
By Deep Planet
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GroGuru Offers Innovation to the Industrial Hemp & Cannabis Industry
The legalization of industrial hemp in the United States has opened the door for farmers to grow a crop that hasn’t been seen legally in this country for nearly a century. While it’s true that hemp is a robust crop, as a grower, you want to produce the best crop possible. GroGuru provides solutions to the industrial hemp industry to ensure crops grow to their fullest potential. ...
By GroGuru
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Forest & plant canopy analysis - Tools & methods
The range of applications of canopy cover analysis is truly astounding. Canopy analysis derives its usefulness from the vitality of the canopy. Many methods to measure canopy cover have been developed in the last 80 years to meet various objectives. Not surprisingly, there have been several comparisons of the tools in different parts of the world. A general knowledge of canopy cover and the ...
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Soil sensors - vital for crop steering & yield manipulation
Crop steering - an introduction. Crop steering is a fairly new term that’s increased in popularity recently, but some growers have been using crop steering techniques for many years. The phrase crop steering is most often used by cannabis growers in relation to commercial cultivation of medicinal cannabis plants, but is applicable to commercial cultivators across the board. After all, ...
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Ground Control Points for Precision Imagery
With any form of data collection, there is uncertainty. For instance, today’s Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled smartphones are typically accurate to within a 4.9 m (16 ft.) radius under open sky. This radius matters in precision agriculture, when growers often want to consistently monitor thousands of plants week after week, year after year! To address this issue, we at Pollen ...
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Remote monitoring helps growers, water districts do their jobs
Propeller flow meters have long been an important tool for agricultural irrigation management. As water scarcity and resource management have become increasingly critical, getting the most timely, accurate readings available from those meters is becoming more important than ever. Here is how growers and water conservation districts (WCDs) are each getting the best of both worlds for their own ...
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Large irrigation district adds low-maintenance Doppler sensors to its monitoring mix
Overview Seeking a flow monitoring alternative for areas where mechanical meters were problematic, the Central California Irrigation District found an affordable and reliable solution with AgriFlo XCi meters and Doppler insert velocity sensors. Challenge From its point of origin at Jones Pumping Plant, The 117-mile long Delta Mendota Canal in central California delivers water from the ...
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Performance of a new capacitance soil moisture probe in a sandy soil
Rapid population growth and increasing urban demand reduce the availability of water for agriculture in Florida. The water-holding capacity of sandy soils in the Central Florida Ridge area is very poor (<0.10 m3 m–3). Improved soil water monitoring probes can help growers manage irrigation more efficiently and conserve water. This study evaluated a new soil water probe (ECH2O EC-5 sensor, Decagon ...
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Revolutionizing Crop Management with Smart Irrigation Solutions
Manna Irrigation offers a customized cloud-based, sensor-free software solution that helps growers and corporations optimize irrigation and monitor crop growth. Why Choose Manna Irrigation? Optimized Irrigation Maximize irrigation efficiency to enhance production processes and improve yield quantity and quality. Prioritize sustainability goals for efficient irrigation practices and ...
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Large irrigation district adds low-maintenance Doppler sensors to its monitoring mix - Case Study
Overview Seeking a flow monitoring alternative for areas where mechanical meters were problematic, the Central California Irrigation District found an affordable and reliable solution with AgriFlo XCi meters and Doppler insert velocity sensors. Challenge From its point of origin at Jones Pumping Plant, The 117-mile long Delta Mendota Canal in central California delivers water from the ...
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Simplified Calibration Routine – Your Questions Answered
A couple years ago, we decided to make the calibration process fast and easier to use on our InCommand displays. While our yield monitor has always set the standard for accuracy, we realized growers were cutting corners on their yield monitor calibration. Ag Leader is pleased to offer an improved calibration algorithm for InCommand displays that allows growers to cut the required ...
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Roots to Recreation: Cannabis Legalization Promotes Grow Room Expansion
Criminalization of cannabis cultivation and consumption in the United States began with prohibition by certain states in the early 20th century (between 1911 and 1933, some 29 states banned the cultivation and/or use of cannabis), with the first significant nationwide federal restrictions implemented under the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. More recently, just as the states instituted the first ...
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Taking inventory - new digital tool helps monitor what’s in your bins
Seamlessly connect to your grain bins to help manage grain quality and time It’s been a tough growing season and growers have been working hard for every bushel this year. It’s important to not let those efforts go to waste, part of that means getting the most out of their operation.. When grain is shipped, growers want to make sure they know how much is in their bins and that it ...
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