On the Horizon - New Technologies for the Farm


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New Horizons for ag information technology

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Novartis technology survey

New ways to ‘see’ your farm

New multi-function units

Data on the go

Windows CE applications

Soil sampling and sensors

More new ways to “see

More ‘data assistance’

Livestock Identification

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New software products

New GIS mapping software

GIS, statistics, analysis, etc

Precision Farming Primer

New publications etc

Farmer databases

How can you get the data you need…?

What does the map tell you?

What you know about what you can grow

What comes after what comes next...?

Forge new links in farm- to-food life-science chain

Next: ISO 9000 farming

Customer-based decision-making

Learn to use the new tools forge new links in the info chain

Who will farm the future? And how? And why?

From dot on the map to continent on the planet

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You won’t get to 2010 until you get past these:

Agriculture and Year 2000

R.U. Ready farm flowchart

RU Y2K OK?

Year 2000 problem priorities

Year 2000 problem priorities

Millenium bug or big mess ?

Yardeni asks agriculture

Y2K and agriculture...

Y2K and agriculture...

% of time in Y2K tasks:

Windows 95/98 / 2000?

Will agriculture be ready?

Other challenges?

RU Y2K OK?

Plan for your vision of the future as you see the facts

Can you invent your future ?

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it...

PF is just part of your whole farm management system

Get plugged into the planet

Precision farming - Site-specific management

Turning data into decisions...

Site-specific data model...

Turn experiences into experiments

What limits your yields?

You don’t know what you don’t know...

How do we know WHAT to do at a specific site?

Appropriate Agriculture

Today, the payoff is in the process, not the package!

What you can know about what you can grow

How will you forge new links in the farm to food chain?

Precision FutureFarm: know what you can grow

The real promise and future of precision farming?

Get plugged in here...

Concerns of Precision Agriculture Community

Priority #1 -- Economics of Precision Ag

Priority #2 -- Education & Training Issues

Priority #3 -- Data Management Issues

Priority #4 -- Agronomic issues

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Author: Grant Mangold, Editor "Ag Innovator" magazine

Email: @ginnovator@agriculture.com

Home Page: http://www.agriculture.com/technology