Precision agriculture an evolving process

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That?s the message from an array of scientists and equipment providers, who spoke at the newly-launched Precision Agriculture Summit in Jamestown, N.D., organized by the Red River Valley Research Corridor and hosted at the North Dakota Farmers Union headquarters.

By: Mikkel Pates, Agweek

JAMESTOWN, N.D. ? Precision agriculture is an evolving process that?s going even more high-tech.

Prescription agriculture is just starting, and the technology is reaching down into the food people eat.

That?s the message from an array of scientists and equipment providers, who spoke at the newly-launched Precision Agriculture Summit in Jamestown, N.D., organized by the Red River Valley Research Corridor and hosted at the North Dakota Farmers Union headquarters.

Companies are offering new technologies to make them more efficient with water, pesticides and fertilizers but also about integrating it further with the quality of life and the environment, plus ?prescription foods? and location.

In one panel, major equipment manufacturers talked about what they?re offering and how it fits together.

Shannon Cameron, Agricultural Management Solutions regional manager for John Deere, for example, described the word ?telematics,? which uses telecommunications to link information and computers for decision-making help. John Deere has ?FarmSite,? an integrated strategy that involves the technology at various levels, with three pillars, including machine optimization, logistics optimization and ag decision support.

The strategy includes tracking machines, comparing their efficiency and making them more efficient, or allowing the machines to call in with alerts with alerts to a central decision maker. Machines can be put in a ?geofence,? putting a ?box around the machine and having it tell us when it goes outside of that box.? They can be monitored for a curfew or managed for maintenance. A harvest module is coming out under the JDLink system. The systems can track yield, moisture and other data. They can compare their efficiency by operator. The machines can be set up to track harvest and idle time.

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