Drones - A Soybean Grower's Best Friend
From Dronedeploy.com
How much soy would a soy grower grow if a soy grower could grow soy?
This is the question most often asked by the grower before the start of the next growing season. The question, however, affects every single type of grower out there.
When ramping up for the next season, various types of different tests are run that compare different improvements — all with the end goals being to increase yields and efficiency.
With respect to this case study, we'll compare three:
- How should I apply my fertilizer to achieve maximum yields?
- What should I do to manage weeds?
- When exactly should I plant — earlier in the season or later?
There are around 55 acres of soybeans in this field, which Norm has flown multiple times.
The lighter-colored, vertically-oriented area North of the barn shows an area of weeds with bare ground making up the rest of the red area it is situated in (marked as ‘Weeds’).
The area immediately south of the barn is soybeans. There are two 5 foot wide, lighter-colored stripes running east-to-west (marked as ‘Fertilizer lines’). This area was an area that received a fertilizer overlap (or twice the fertilizer amount).