GPS can mean more than Global Positioning System for women farmers, according to agricultural marketing specialist Jane Eckert. “The G stands for setting goals,” Eckert told a meeting for women who are principal farm operators in Wisconsin recently. “If we don’t have a goal set, then any old road will do and that’s not good enough for business anymore.” “The … Read More
More Precision at Beltwide
Cotton growers who were not able to attend the recent Crop Management Seminar in Mississippi have another chance to hear more about precision during the upcoming Beltwide Cotton Conferences. The National Cotton Council works closely with Cotton Incorporated on planning technical and producer sessions for the Beltwide, which this year will include workshops on zone fertility management, precision software for … Read More
Precision Workshops for Cotton Growers
The recent Cotton Incorporated Crop Management Seminar in Tunica, Mississippi featured workshops to help growers learn more about precision management. Director of Agricultural Research Ed Barnes says they actually had two different precision workshops. “One for people who really had not done any work with precision agriculture. We had a workshop on the basics of how to scout your field, … Read More
Precision Myth Busting #3
This is the third and final precision farming myth busted by Raj Khosla of Colorado State University. You could call this one the money myth – and the whole basis of Precision.AgWired.com. MYTH 3: Precision farming will not pay for itself First of all, Khosla points out that “precision farming is not just the addition of new technologies, but is … Read More
Precision Myth Busting #2
Here is the second myth busted by precision farming specialist Raj Khosla with Colorado State University in CSU’s May-July Agronomy Newsletter. MYTH 2: Precision farming is too difficult to implement Khosla says it’s not the physical implementation of precision farming that’s difficult, it’s opening one’s mind to change. “There is a steep learning curve with precision farming. But, once in … Read More
Precision Myth Busting #1
Soil and crop science associate professor Raj Khosla with Colorado State University recently busted a few myths about precision farming in an article for CSU’s Agronomy Newsletter. MYTH 1: Precision farming is grid sampling While it is true that grid sampling was among the first few methods that the precision farming community (i.e., early adaptors) used to develop variability maps … Read More
The Five “R’s” of Precision
Once upon a time, education was based on the three “R’s” – Reading, wRiting and aRithmetic. According to Colorado State University soil and crop science associate professor Raj Khosla, precision farming is based on five “R’s” – which really are R’s! Khosla points out that precision farming is not a new branch or way of farming but “with increased globalization … Read More
Precision Cotton Farming
Precision cotton farming will be a focus of the upcoming Cotton Incorporated crop management seminar and workshops. Randall Weiseman with Southeast Agnet recently interviewed Cotton Inc Director of Agricultural Research Ed Barnes about the event being held in Tunica, Mississippi on November 11-13. “We’ll actually have a hands-on seminar on how to do precision fertility management, how to collect soil … Read More
Precision Irrigation at Sunbelt
Valley Irrigation was showing off its brand new line of GPS Ready irrigation control panels at the Sunbelt Ag Expo earlier this month in Moultrie, Georgia. “We have our computer panels that are industry exclusive GPS ready,” Sara Sims with Valley said during an interview at Sunbelt with Southeast AgNet’s Randall Weiseman. The GPS Ready PRO2 Pivot Control Panel and … Read More
Truth About Precision Technology
Precision technology goes hand in hand with biotechnology when it comes to increasing productivity for agriculture. That according to Dean Kleckner, chairman of Truth About Trade and Technology – as well as former president of the American Farm Bureau Federation and a farmer from Iowa. He attended the recent World Food Prize symposium where farmers from all over the world … Read More