PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University will host three major agronomy field days in June and July focusing on “Novel Solutions to Traditional Problems.” The 91st annual field day of the WSU Lind Dryland Research Station is scheduled June 14. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. and the field tour at 9 a.m. Research topics will […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Precision fertilizer management, weed management strategies and field burning alternatives are among the topics to be featured at the 2005 Direct Seed and Precision Farming Research Field Day Thursday, June 23, at Washington State University’s Cunningham Agronomy Farm. Located northeast of Pullman, the 140-acre Cunningham farm is a long-term research site managed […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The Second Direct Seed and Precision Farming Research Field Day will be Thursday, June 26, at Washington State University’s Cunningham Agronomy Farm near here. The 140-acre farm is a new long-term research site managed since 1999 under continuous direct seeding with field-scale equipment. Research is focused on developing direct seed cropping systems […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — The Direct Seed and Precision Farming Research Field Day, Thursday, June 28, will be the first field day ever held at the new WSU Cunningham Agronomy Farm northeast of here. The field day program will feature new technologies for direct seed cropping systems and precision farming in the intermediate and higher rainfall […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — A field day on direct seed systems and precision farming research at the WSU/USDA-ARS Cunningham Agronomy Farm will be held on June 28. The 140-acre Cunningham Agronomy Farm is a new long-term research site. Research there focuses on development of direct seed cropping systems and understanding field variability of a typical Palouse […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — A new award created by Washington State University’s Center for Precision Agricultural Systems will recognize people who have contributed to the science and practice of precision agriculture. Precision agriculture is the management of small areas of large fields based on intensive information collected by satellites, computers and other technologies. The annual award […]
PULLMAN, Wash.– One of the best opportunities for growers to learn about precision agriculture comes to the Tri-Cities, Jan. 29-31. “The two day Western Precision Agriculture Conference on Tuesday and Wednesday and the workshops that precede it on Monday will provide growers with an opportunity to get the latest information about precision farming in the […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — Three hands-on workshops and a two-day conference on precision agriculture will be held in the Tri-Cities, Jan. 29-31. “This conference provides the broadest, most comprehensive information about precision farming in the western United States,” says Washington State University’s Fran Pierce. “Participants will learn how to maximize profitability by matching crop production practices […]
In commercial agriculture, adoption of precision farming technologies is as inevitable as the conversion from manpower and horsepower to machinery. The transition to mechanization took roughly a hundred years, from the Civil War into World War II. Precision agriculture — managing small areas of large fields based on intensive information collected from them — is […]
About 10,000 years ago the human race invented farming, which launched the agricultural revolution. It was a snail-paced revolution that crept rather than swarmed over the land, transforming society from foraging, fishing, hunting and herding cultures into what has ever since passed for civilization. Changes in agricultural practices occurred at a glacial pace. In the […]