PR - What Is The Potential For Precision Agriculture Based On Plant Sensing?

Jon T. Biermacher, Francis M. Epplin, B Brorsen, John B. Solie and William R. Raun

No 345360, 16th Congress, Cork, Ireland, July 15-20, 2007 from International Farm Management Association

Abstract: Plant-based precision nitrogen fertilizer application technologies have been developed as a way to predict nitrogen needs. This paper determines the expected profit from using plant sensing to determine nitrogen needs in winter wheat. The equipment necessary for precision application of nitrogen based on plant sensing is available commercially, but adoption has been slow. We find that plant sensing systems are roughly breakeven with current systems, which likely explains the slow rate of adoption.

Keywords: Research; and; Development/Tech; Change/Emerging; Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.345360

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