Precision Agriculture

For more information about our precision agriculture services, contact Nathan Woydziak, Precision Ag Specialist, at 620-353-1861.

Crop Quest takes a practical approach to precision agriculture—one that producers can understand. We are finding value in precision ag and we are showing producers how to benefit from it. After applying site-specific farming technology for many years, the benefits are apparent.

If you are prepared to move into site-specific farming, Crop Quest can help. With several GPS rigs, our staff is grid sampling and mapping fields all across the High Plains region.

Precision Ag Services Offered

 

Grid Sampling - Through an effective grid sampling program, Crop Quest agronomists are able to precisely depict actual soil variability within a field.

 

Variable Rate Recommendations - Variable rate recommendations can show you and/or your applicator where to apply crop inputs more efficiently to certain field areas. Crop Quest has the technology necessary to generate variable rate prescription maps for virtually any input and any controller.

 

Yield Mapping - Crop Quest has the software and experience to read yield data directly from yield cards and to make in-depth "post calibrations" to this data. Yield data directly from a combine usually contains errors making it difficult to properly utilize the data. Most standard software is unable to make these necessary corrections.

 

Perimeter Mapping - Mapping field boundaries has many benefits. Accurate boundary maps are helpful in determining exact field acreage and/or crop loss. This is a good starting place for any site specific farming program. Field perimeter mapping can be performed at a relatively low cost.

 

Management Zones - An effective precision ag program may be as simple as setting up management zones. It is possible to micro-manage some fields without a variable rate application. You may find the answer in mapping weed infestations in a given field and simply treating those specific areas.

 

Applying commercial fertilizer, lime or manure to a few specific field locations may help you reach your yield goals more easily. Crop Quest has the tools and experience to create these types of management zones and map them for you and/or your applicator.

 

Remote Sensing - Additional layers of information can be obtained by analyzing a variety of remote sensing photos and images. These include, but are not limited to, infrared photos, color land photos, bare soil photos, pre-plant black and white photos and more. These images and/or photos, taken during the growing season, of a selected field or area can highlight crop stress, disease or other individual field or crop characteristics.

 

Claims & Settlement Analysis - For insurance purposes, one or more parties can have areas of a field mapped in a variety of ways that show damage by wind, hail, herbicides, etc. A report and/or map can be produced showing the total acreage affected. If taken to harvest, these areas can be highlighted and yield data from them can be compared to non-damaged areas.

 

Multi-Layer Analysis - When several layers of information are available, it becomes easier to answer questions about how and why a crop yields a certain way in a particular location. Recommendations also become more precise.

 

For instance, some variable rate recommendations may take into account yield data, grid sample soil fertility data, soil type and other inputs. Crop Quest has the necessary technology to perform high-end analysis of this type of data. Ask our staff about the following data types already available on your farm:
· Digital Ortho Quads (DOQ) - aerial photographs
· Digitized Soil Type Maps
· TIGER Data - roads, streams, sections, etc.

Yield Maps

Digital Ortho Quad Photos

Infrared Photos

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