Harvest Data Articles
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Be harvest ready
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 ...
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Easy Traceability with No Data Entry - Case Study
The Opportunity Our customer used paper-based reporting and Excel to record production and track incoming products. Incoming product tags were on cardboard slips attached to the pallet or cart that was delivered to the packing line. ...
By Lyne Systems
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SMS - Taking the Guessing Out of Decision Making for 20 Years
Precision farming isn’t about spending endless hours crunching numbers and analyzing data. It’s about answering questions that can make you more profitable. This is why, SMS software was created. For over 20 years, SMS has been proving itself as an easy-to-use decision-making tool to help farmers capture the most out of every acre. Stuart Lawrence, a fourth-generation farmer from ...
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How to easily identify field variability and manage fall fertility on your own
Generating a simple variable rate prescription to address field variability and fall fertility needs can be done in minutes using AgFiniti! For a limited time this fall, try AgFiniti Prescriptions for just $0.35/acre! ...
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Calling California with Forrest Faszer
I may be considered new to the team at Pollen Systems, but what I am not new to is California’s Capital, Sacramento. ...
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How to Simplify your Test Plots and Maximize Investments
Remember the old days of running test plots? Stopping in the field to place marker flags and make the necessary changes. Then returning in the fall to — with any luck — find the flags and weigh each load. Not to mention the deskwork that followed to evaluate the results. And for me, with a full schedule that includes a 3,200-acre operation plus my wife and three kids, it wasn’t ...
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Uncovering your Farm’s Hidden Yield Potential
What are you missing in your harvest data? Across hundreds or even thousands of acres, it’s easy to get lost in this sea of data points. It’s simply too much for one person to calculate. That’s what makes a digital tool a powerful ally. It never gets tired or distracted and when provided the right data, it never puts a decimal in the wrong place. The yield analysis tool in ...
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How to Improve Field Data Accuracy for Better Farming Decisions
From the first day of flight school, pilots are instructed on the importance of checking every instrument before take-off. Even if they have multiple flights in a day, they still go through the same long checklist — every, single, time. Why? Because while in-flight, they need to trust what their equipment is telling them. In other words, they need all the data collected and delivered to the ...
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Pre-Harvest Tips: How to Make your Harvest Data Deliver
Harvest is underway in some regions, but for much of the Midwest, late planting and the potential threat of early frost may make harvest a race against Mother Nature. No matter where you are, you’ll want to be ready the moment your crops are - and that means ensuring you’re set up to collect the data that is key to analyzing crop performance and making decisions for the coming season. ...
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From One Ag Leader to Another: Harvest
Think about this: as a farmer, you only get one shot at harvesting your crop each year. Now think about how many things have changed in the past 10 or 20 years: bigger, faster and more accurate equipment, new seed technologies, better herbicide, insecticide and fertilizer options, improved water management, precision technologies … the list goes on. The first time you tried some of these ...
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Yield Data Errors Today, Yield Costs Tomorrow
Regardless of whether your yield data comes from your combine, grain cart, or from truck scales, each source has shortcomings that will not only influence your farm decisions but may also have a negative financial impact. This harvest growers will spend significant time and money chasing down accurate yield data from combine yield monitors, grain carts and/or truck scale tickets. Each of these ...
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Steering for Yield, Comfort in the Field
The return on investment of GPS automated steering systems is almost never argued anymore. GPS technology has been proven to reduce overlap, resulting in fuel savings and productivity gains that farms of all sizes can appreciate. However, in my experience, the leading reason that farms today invest in a steering system is operator comfort. Many providers in the agricultural industry offer ...
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Keeping Track Of Pomegranates
Keeping Track of Pomegranates Growing pomegranates is quite a new industry in Australia and Goulburn Valley growers Pomlife are leading the way as Australia’s largest growers. Pomegranates are slow to reach maturity (up to six years) and can be challenging to grow. Pomlife are not only growing for the fresh fruit market but are value adding by packaging arils (seeds) and juice for sale ...
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Global Grain Stocks Drop Dangerously Low as 2012 Consumption Exceeded Production
The world produced 2,241 million tons of grain in 2012, down 75 million tons or 3 percent from the 2011 record harvest. The drop was largely because of droughts that devastated several major crops—namely corn in the United States (the world’s largest crop) and wheat in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Australia. Each of these countries also is an important exporter. Global grain ...
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