Every square foot of land is either producing at its best or it isn’t. Do you know which areas aren’t? With today’s high input costs, can you afford unproductive acres?

Harvest time is not the time to learn which parts of a field haven’t been giving top yields. Lower your farm costs and maximize productivity using digital aerial imaging.

Today's farmers can manage land more productively with precision inputs of fertilizer, herbicide and pesticides. To accomplish that, accurate cropping histories of troublesome spots in fields are necessary. Such areas need to be accurately located and need to be monitored for several years to detect emerging low yield patterns.

With current high costs of inputs and tight margins, consider using technology to your advantage. Digital aerial imaging is a low-cost, accurate mapping tool that can help farmers build a cropping history database before investing in costly GPS equipment, yield monitors, and variable rate applicators. Digital aerial imaging technology can also be integrated with GPS systems, desktop mapping software, yield monitors, and variable rate applications to save you money in the long run by providing optimal data coverage.

Combining GPS technology with GIS, accurate measurements of fields can be made. Accurate acreage measurements are important for crop insurance coverage, yield determinations, and damaged acreage calculations in the case of catastrophic storms.

Whether you are a large producer or a small family farm, the knowledgeable technical staff at GPS Innovations can introduce you to the technology, advise you on an a phased adoption program, and show you how to remain competitive in today’s marketplace.

Think of the Possibilities

Digital aerial imaging is a quick and inexpensive way of developing a cropping history. Aerial images can be obtained several times during a growing season to determine:

• Wet or dry areas
• Troublesome weed areas
• Areas of low fertility
• Insect or disease problems
• Soil compaction problems

This is just a brief listing of the many ways digital aerial imaging can help you with agricultural land management.

Detect problem areas:

• Weed patches
• Soil moisture surpluses or deficits
• Insects and disease
• Irrigation equipment failure
• Areas of crop stress

Compare performance of different seed varieties

Measure crop acreage

Detect and monitor wetland areas

Develop a crop history without investing in GPS or yield monitors

Determine location, pattern, and intensity of soil sampling

Measure storm damage acreage

Forecast crop yield

Plan harvest strategies:

• Watch for problem areas in the field while operating harvest equipment
• Use a voice recorder or handheld computer to document the nature of problems
• Alert other equipment operators about problem spots in fields and instruct them to determine the location of the problem

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