Making efficient use of all that farm data [Video]

Launch of the first GPS yield monitors altered the world of on-farm data collection. That was followed by variable-rate technology, precision planting and aerial/satellite imaging.

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Most growers have now been accumulating data for 20 years or longer, and many have resolved to keep that data in the hopes of finding value from the gigabytes and terabytes of accumulated information in the form of increased on-farm efficiencies, cost reductions and improved yields.

But how should growers and agronomists interpret this data?

That’s the goal of a venture by agronomist Aaron Breimer.

With his new business, Moose-Ag, he aims to use his decade of experience working with growers in southwestern Ontario to help them interpret data and turn it into useful management directives.

Breimer recently provided answers to a few questions growers may have…