Articles Tagged with ''soil sampling''

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The Data Crop ... The New Value Chain Nobody in Ag Saw Coming

The combine harvests the grain. The elevator, the miller, the processor and the retailer take their margins. The farmer takes what's left. Agriculture has always worked this way. Now the same chain is forming around a new commodity — the verified record of how that grain was grown. The machines are already in the field producing it. Graham Gleed, Principal Advisor at abcg, asks who profits from the harvest.

A familiar chain in ag is forming around a new commodity — the verified record of how a crop was grown. The machines are already in the field producing it. Graham Gleed, Principal Advisor at abcg, asks who profits from the harvest.


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Stretching the RTK Signal to Capitalize on Custom Jobs

J-Ace Farms, located near Blue Earth, Minn., uses precision farming practices in its strip-till and no-till farming operation. Matt Alford, and his father-in-law, Jim Erdahl, typically build strips in the fall for corn the following year using a 16-row Environmental Tillage Systems Soil Warrior strip-till unit, applying prescription-rate phosphorous (P) and potassium (K).
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Keith Byerly

Signs

There is no doubt that in the last 20 years we have come a long way in reading what our fields tell us. Whether it has been the wide adoption of soil sampling, yield monitors, or even the advent of infield sensors like moisture probes, we have come a long way in learning how to read the signs that our fields give us.
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