“Seeing is believing” is a common cliché applicable to the adoption of technology in agriculture. Adoption rates of autosteer, sectional control and weigh cells in grain carts and air-seeder tanks are incredible. Auto guidance adoption, for example, was well above 50 per cent in the U.S. as of 2019 (McFadden et al., 2023). Nowadays, it […] Read more
Ground Level: The power of seeing and the crutch of complexity
Crop Advisor’s Casebook: What’s stalling this canola?
A Crop Advisor's Solution from the June 2011 issue of Grainews
Joe grows 11,000 acres of wheat, barley, canola and peas on a mixed farm near Moose Jaw, Sask. While on a routine scout, he noticed some of his canola fields weren’t filling in as quickly as the others. “I may have seeded too deep, or it could be cutworms,” he told me. When he walked […] Read more
Cyber-Savvy Farmer
