Dr. Dave Franzen , NDSU Extension Soil Specialist Site-specific farming is doing the right thing at the right place at the right time. Site-specific farming is a different way of thinking about the land. A field boundary is defined by a surveyor and a legal description.
Fields are square or rectangular in shape because of the initial surveying conducted many years ago.
Some differences between soils are small, but often the differences are very large. So site-specific farming is managing areas within fields, rather than using the same management on the field based only on legal description boundaries. Many producers believe that site-specific farming is prohibitively expensive, and that it is not relevant or useful in dryland environments. Gather information at that location. Be able to do something about it.