Article taken from the Agronomist & Arable Farmer Vegetable Guide
Soil is the most valuable asset a grower can have. The science behind nutrient balance goes back as far as history can show us that removing crops and balancing that removal with fertiliser, manures and lime hasn’t vastly changed.
Ultimately we need to understand the soil and need to ensure we use technology to help us understand the bioscience beneath our feet.
With a wealth of year’s experience, Agrovista offers GPS mapping through its precision and technology arm, Plantsystems. Rather than be fixed on one system, it recognises that in conjunction with its agronomists and precision team it can advise growers about which system will best suit their needs and land.
This data is derived and collected from a highly accurate sampling system that collects each soil sample and gives it an accurate GPS coordinate, allowing the data to be mapped and visually understood, and allowing repeat sampling of the same spot in the future.
This data can also be transferred to other systems and used in variable rate machinery.
The common mapping types are:
The most common type of precision sampling done in the UK, it is simple to understand and gives a uniform sample standard across the farm. The industry ‘standard’ is one sample per hectare and the size of the sample can be customised to suit the grower.
Soil is the most valuable asset a grower can have. The science behind nutrient balance goes back as far as history can show us that removing crops and balancing that removal with fertiliser, manures and lime hasn’t vastly changed.
Ultimately we need to understand the soil and need to ensure we use technology to help us understand the bioscience beneath our feet.
With a wealth of year’s experience, Agrovista offers GPS mapping through its precision and technology arm, Plantsystems. Rather than be fixed on one system, it recognises that in conjunction with its agronomists and precision team it can advise growers about which system will best suit their needs and land.
This data is derived and collected from a highly accurate sampling system that collects each soil sample and gives it an accurate GPS coordinate, allowing the data to be mapped and visually understood, and allowing repeat sampling of the same spot in the future.
This data can also be transferred to other systems and used in variable rate machinery.
The common mapping types are:
Grid sampling
The most common type of precision sampling done in the UK, it is simple to understand and gives a uniform sample standard across the farm. The industry ‘standard’ is one sample per hectare and the size of the sample can be customised to suit the grower.
Conductivity scanning
Target sampling
Conductivity + target sampling