Streamlining soil health mapping technology CHALLENGE SoilOptix provides soil mapping technology to farmers. SoilOptix gives growers a deeper understanding of the variability in fertility and textural-based properties of their soil. The thorough data analysis and processing work uses multiple pieces of software, and takes a significant amount of time. This is a bottleneck in their service. SOLUTION The research team at the Agriculture & … Continue reading SoilOptix
Development of a Variable Rate Corn Farming Web Tool (ReservoiRx) CHALLENGE A field’s corn crop was traditionally treated with one amount of planted seed, and a single rate of applied fertilizer (of each type). However, this results in wasted costs, fertilizers, and runoff. Variable rate farming involves applying custom amounts of seed, fertilizer, and other field inputs to each area of the field, based … Continue reading Yellow Gold Farms Ltd.
Micrometeorology Web System and Custom Hardware Array for Fruit Growers CHALLENGE Ontario’s complex weather, coupled with unique microclimates, make farm management actions and decisions difficult. Shifting and irregular climates in recent years have made measuring and monitoring micrometeorology a required element of good tender fruit growing. Micrometeorology is the study of small changes over the course of seconds, and it is specific to a … Continue reading Sarapoint Global Ltd. 1
Multi-point synchronous ground truthing of air drone thermal imagery using ground based rover drones in a vineyard CHALLENGE In the Ontario grape and wine industry, the shifting and irregular climates have made measuring and monitoring micrometeorology a required element of good vineyard management. UAV data can objectively show vine health, vigor, and water stress. The difficulty with UAV data is that there is no … Continue reading Sarapoint Global Ltd. 2
Precision Agriculture Advancement for Ontario CHALLENGE Investment in precision agriculture equipment is significant across Ontario; however, the agronomic, and geographic information science (GIS) areas are lacking research to demonstrate a return on investment (ROI). SOLUTION Niagara College built a web system called the Research Crop Portal to house and process farm data layers (yield, as applied, topography, etc.) into digitized maps that are compared … Continue reading Grain Farmers of Ontario
Developing a Crop Portal Project Type Cloud Service and Precision Agriculture Process Development Challenge Farming equipment is powerful, sophisticated and costly, but Ontario grain growers in many cases may not be fully utilizing the potential of this modern equipment, its related computing power and software to validate precision agriculture practices, including variable rate. Solution The research team has been and continues to evolve a Crop … Continue reading Precision Agriculture Advancement for Ontario
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