Extension Guides

Yield monitors are the second most common precision agriculture technology used today. Cotton growers who anticipate collecting yield data this season should take the time to check yield monitor components to ensure accurate data collection...

Auto guidance, a technology that pilots farm machinery via GPS satellites, could help farmers boost productivity and expand their farm operations. Benefits of GPS-based guidance include: reduced skips and overlaps, ability to use in conditions of poor visibility, keeps implements in the same traffic patterns year-to-year (controlled traffic), extends hours of operation, low-skilled tractor drivers, increased yield, energy and time savings, increased application accuracy, and enhanced operation safety. ...

Growers who anticipate on collecting yield data this season should take the time to check yield monitor components to ensure accurate data collection. Proper calibration is key if management decisions, prescriptions, or profit maps are to be generated from yield data.

The purpose of this guide is to provide growers with some items to consider relative to harvest losses and capacities when operating diggers and combines. Digger setup and operation, along with proper timing often has a greater impact on yield recovery than any other aspect of peanut production; put simply, more revenue can be made or lost during digging than during any other field operation from seedbed preparation to combining. ...

The concept of site specific application of fertilizer is not new. Historically, fields were smaller than they are today and small areas within fields were frequently fertilized differently than the major portion in order to address special requirements for either nutrients used or rate of application. ...