Tag Archives Precision agriculture — page 5

New tool allows scripting of crop protection products
The Climate FieldView tool creates special management zones in fields

Drone program improves agronomic precision
Drones becoming widespread tool for crop health assessment

Brandt buys GeoShack’s Ontario business
Deal makes equipment firm the exclusive Topcon dealer for Canada

Precision ag helps farmers find their best acres
Farming all the acres the same can result in potentially failing the better ones and over-investing in the worst

Economics around variable-rate fertilizer challenging
The reasons variable-rate application has had lower adoption is a lesson for new ag technologies

Turning precision ag data into profits
Some farmers are convinced of the value as long as they have the tools to manage it

Clarifying data ownership for higher ROI
Researchers says greater ownership of data could help bring down barriers

When should farmers embrace new technology?
Farmers have different approaches toward tech, but it has to pay
Guelph researchers seek farmer input on precision ag technology

Information from above
The quest is on to obtain more detailed soil type and topography data on Ontario croplands from satellites