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Development of a conservation-oriented precision agriculture system: Crop production assessment and plan implementation

N.R. Kitchen, K.A. Sudduth, D.B. Myers, R.E. Massey, E.J. Sadler, R.N. Lerch, J.W. Hummel and H.L. Palm
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation November 2005, 60 (6) 421-430;
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From site-specific crop and soil information collected from a Missouri claypan soil field for over a decade (1993 to 2003), we implemented a precision agriculture system in 2004 with a goal of using site-specific management practices to improve farming profitability and conserve soil and water resources. The objectives of this study were to: 1) show how precision crop and soil information was used to assess productivity, and 2) document the development of the precision agriculture system plan for implementation on the field, relying on this productivity assessment and conservation opportunities. The study field was uniformly managed from 1991-2003, during which time variability in soil and landscape parameters and yield were measured, and causes of yield variation were determined. Profitability maps were created from yield maps and production records. Because erosion has degraded the topsoil on shoulder and side slope positions of major portions of this field, corn-soybean management practices have rarely been profitable in these shallow topsoil areas. We prioritized these and other results, and developed the precision agriculture system plan. The plan, described in detail, is aimed at increasing profitability while improving water and soil quality.

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  • Newell R. Kitchen, Kenneth A. Sudduth, Edward J. Sadler, Robert N. Lerch, and John W. Hummel all work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Cropping Systems and Water Quality Research Unit at the University of Missouri-Columbia in Columbia, Missouri. D. Brenton Myers works in the Department of Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia in Columbia, Missouri. Raymond E. Massey works in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri-Columbia in Columbia, Missouri. Harlan L. Palm works in the Department of Agronomy at the University of Missouri-Columbia in Columbia, Missouri.

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