Corn and Soybean Digest: Nail Down Yields Early
By Paul Queck
Posted 11/24/09
Satellite imagery helps Mike Emens predict yields in August
Most of us are skittish about selling much of our new crop until we have a good sense for how it will yield. Mike Emens of Frankfort, IN, has a leg up on most of us. He subscribes to a satellite photo imagery service that helps project his yields in August within 10% of the final yield.
“I have limited on-farm bin storage,” says Emens. “So forward marketing is important for me. Getting accurate yield figures in August is a real boon for my
marketing.”.......More
Farm Industry News: Variable-rate application: What's new? What's next?
By Jodie Wehrspan
Posted 11/24/09
JORGE HERAUD is the business unit manager for and director of business development for Trimble Agriculture. For the last three years, he has been involved in shaping Trimble's entry into precision agriculture, which has included acquisitions, new product development and partnerships.
FIN: What has changed about variable-rate application? Is it a reality now?
HERAUD: Yes, I believe it is. Variable rate [VR] has been out for a long time, but in the last two to three years it has become more mainstream. And the reasons are several. One is that the economics are different. Fertilizer and seed are much more expensive than they were three to four years ago. And declining commodity prices are making it even more critical for farmers to save money. So the cost equation is making VR very tangible.......More
Corn and Soybean Digest: Precision’s Predictive Power
By Liz Morrison
Posted 11/22/09
Mike Cerny has been mapping yields on his Wisconsin farm since 1994. Fourteen years later, he is just beginning to get a picture of where site-specific management might pay off.......More
Farm Progress: Top ways to maximize precision
tech
By Willie Vogt
Posted 11/22/09
As harvesttime ramps up, you may find yourself reading this at odd hours of the day -- or night. Consider the work you're doing today and how precision technology could be working for you in 2010. In the many years Turning Tech to Profit has appeared, one of the key recurring issues is the need to plan for the technology to put it to use in your operation.......More
Corn and Soybean Digest: Your Sixth Sense
By Jen Bennett
Posted 11/09/09
Inputs are costly these days. So is your time. Now, more than ever, being efficient in your farming practices is a valuable tool. One way to
increase efficiency is through the use of nitrogen (N) sensors and variable-rate equipment. Here are a few products to get you started......More
Corn and Soybean Digest: Profiting From Yield History
By Larry Stalcup
Posted 11/09/09
Extra income of $60-87-plus/acre. That's what Grant Webber gains by using variable rate application (VRA) to get fertilizer where it belongs on
corn, based on $3.50-bu. corn......More
Farm Industry News: 3-D Crop Shots
By Jodie Wehrspann
Posted 11/09/09
REMEMBER WHEN Google Earth rocked the consumer world by providing satellite images of any place in the world from a laptop computer?
Users can glide over and zoom in on any locale to get driving directions, find nearby restaurants, measure distance and go on virtual vacations.
Now Agri ImaGIS Technologies has brought similar capabilities to the agricultural market in an online system called SatShot 3D. It provides farmers with a 3-D look at their crops along with a software platform of mapping tools and crop information to apply seed, fertilizer and other crop inputs at variable rates.......More
Corn and Soybean Digest: Precision Thinking
By Susan Winsor
Posted 11/07/09
Ken Greene doesn't like lazy assets. Having swapped out a few "lazy" plows, a soil finisher and disks in favor of a Hiniker strip-till tool, he turned
his attention to the cab.
The Durand, IL, grower installed an Ag Leader Insight display with multiple product functionality and Trimble's RTK (real-time kinematic) Auto
pilot in two tractors, gaining precision farming capabilities throughout the growing season......More
Corn and Soybean Digest: Cutting Corners the Smart Way
By Susan Winsor
Posted 11/07/09
"Another word for farming is risk," says Steve Schmidt. His unpredictable Plains climate made risk management a matter of survival tool since
day 1. He uses field and soil data to precisely match soil zones with appropriate plant populations, hybrids and fertility plans......More
Farm Industry News: Variable rate < the big story
From Senior Editor Jodie Wehrspann
Posted 11/05/09
Perhaps the biggest overlooked ag story today, with nary a neon sign signaling its significance, is variable-rate technology. I remember first
writing about it 10 years ago. At the time, we examined whether variable-rate technology paid for itself. But with prices for seed and fertilizer
jumping in recent years, growers are scrambling to find ways to cut costs in this commodity-driven market. Variable rate is being seen as the
next big hope......More
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