Map Photo Gallery Personnel Staff Directory Satellite Units Saline Exp. Pathology Precision Ag. 99.3351862 W Precision Agriculture Program Description Precision Agriculture is a rapidly developing methodology heavily tied to proprietary standards across many manufacturers. This makes it difficult and frequently frustrating to develop complete PA systems that encompass yield monitoring and variable input rate technology.
Software often lags the pace of hardware development.
The work at the Agricultural Research Center Hays is intended to develop an understanding of the component interface requirements and interactions and to document ways to make them work in concert without introducing undue complexity. In so doing, it is intended that others might be able to capitalize on this technology without having to invest the effort to make diverse components function in a systems context. Such maps are fundamental to prescription application of production inputs and can drive variable-rate controllers. This information may be highly relevant to site-specific management. The objective is to use EC maps as an easily obtained foundational data layer to interpret soil variability and thereby enable optimization of production inputs based on that variability.