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Sensing soil variations Information on how the soil varies across a field is helpful in determining management zones for variable rate applications of crop inputs. As soil sensor services become more common in Ontario, interest is growing in the use of these sensors to map in-field soil variability. Now, Viacheslav Adamchuk, a precision agriculture engineer from McGill University, is leading a project to compare three different soil sensor systems and to optimize their use for Ontario conditions. For precision agriculture, a key advantage of these sensor systems is that they usually provide much denser soil information across a field than a county-scale soil map or a traditional grid soil sampling approach. >> Learn More…








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