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Outreach
The Outreach program partners with industry, farmers, and academics to develop content for training modules. Present areas of emphasis include yield map interpretation, intensive soil sampling methods, on farm experiment design, and precision farming profitability studies.
The Center also hosts the International Conference on Precision Agriculture, in cooperation with the Minnesota Extension Service. The biennial Conference attracts more than 500 academics and industry representatives from 35 countries who share findings and preview technology.
Consortium for Site Specific Management
- Evaluate the economic viability of PA
- Identify methods that improve water quality
- Assess the potential for improving crop quality
- Work with grower learning groups
- Develop protocols for collecting, analyzing and disseminating spatial data from farms
- Assess PA adoption trends
- Identify SSRM practices appropriate to diverse cropping systems and farms
- Develop curricula and materials
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