GPS Soil Sampling Service
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Soil Testing Fields -
A Case Study
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Farmer from Suffolk keen to optimize
fertilizer purchase and use, wanted GPS soil
sampling across all fields pre sugar beet crop with fertilizer recommendation for sugar beet crop in 2002
followed by barley 2003. |
What
information will GPS soil sampling
for fertility provide?
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optimise use of fertilisers
over all fields, applying more fertilizer where fields had less
fertility and vice versa. |
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enable
farmer to rectify any low fertility areas within fields that may limit crop yields |
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detailed fertilizer recommendations satisfy crop assurance
requirements |
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