Cropping Archives - Precision Ag

published - 12 August 2019
By Eva Moffitt

Towards best practice soil amelioration – a joint project between Farmlink Research and Precision Agriculture Pty Ltd

With the growing availability of commercial precision agriculture (PA) data collection services and variable rate (VR) application technologies, an increasing number of producers within the FarmLink region are adopting site-specific soil amelioration practices for lime and gypsum inputs.
This project examines the ability of a number of data collection methods including …
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Connectivity, Cropping, Data, Pastures, Technology

published - 7 March 2019
By Ben Jones

Too uniform for a variable rate?

Over years of management, growers may observe consistent patterns of crop performance in different areas of a paddock. This can be due to underlying constraints that, if managed with tailored input application rates, could return production or cost benefits. This is known as Variable Rate Application (VRA).
VRA of fertiliser involves …
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Cropping, Data

published - 18 January 2019
By Adrian Roles

Data Potential in the Digital Agriculture Revolution

There have been two agricultural revolutions – the first was the mechanical and the second was the green revolution. We are now at the start of a third, in the form of the digital agriculture revolution.
The potential for new digital agriculture technologies to have impacts and implications is still unclear, …
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Cropping, Data

published - 18 January 2019
By Eva Moffitt

Using fuel usage to examine soil type variability

Eva Moffitt, Senior Research Officer at FarmLink discusses how fuel usage data can be useful for farmers in determining soil type variability in paddocks.
The images below were taken from a paddock south-east of West Wyalong in NSW (‘North West’, 142 ha).

Fuel usage coverage map from 2018 seeding
Cation Exchange Capacity 2ha …
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Cropping, Data

published - 18 January 2019
By Adrian Roles

Yield data calibration

To calibrate a yield monitor correctly you are required to consider all the parts that make up the yield monitor system: mass flow sensor, moisture sensor and clean grain elevator. Of these the most important is the mass flow sensor.
Located at the top of the clean grain elevator is an …
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