Farming Systems 2000:Experiences with GPS-Enabled Cropping Technologies in the Eastern Corn Belt

Adapted from a talk presented at the Unified Wine & Grape Symposium, Sacramento, California, 27 Jan 2000

January 2000

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Farming Systems 2000:Experiences with GPS-Enabled Cropping Technologies in the Eastern Corn Belt

A “fish out of water”

Nobody knows it all!

A little background:Major Indiana crops

A little background:Indiana farm sizes,1998

A little background:Yes, we do have wineries!

Availability of technology

Adoption of technology

GPS-enabled tools include

GPS-enabled operations

GPS-enabled operations

Use of GPS technologies

Adoption & farm size

How yield data is used

Yield data + other GPS data?

An example of data intensityAerial image - preplanting

Reclassification of 1 band

2.5 acre soil sampling

Half-acre soil sampling

Consequence of sparse sampling

1999 Grain yield data

Closeup of yield data

Benefits of dense datasets

© 2000, Purdue University

Author: R.L. (Bob) Nielsen

Email: rnielsen@purdue.edu

Home Page: http://www.kingcorn.org/rln-bio.htm

Other information:
Professor of Agronomy
Extension Corn Specialist
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1150

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