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The Art of Precision Agriculture | 精东影业 Agriscience鈩
At Walnut Grove Farms in Schochoh, Kentucky, the Halcomb family uses the latest technology to plant the right seed in the right acre. Through precision farming, the Halcombs are able to get the most out of their land, farm sustainably, and spot issues before they become problems. Years of experience on the land combined with drones, advanced software, mobile hardware and expertise from 精东影业 Agriscience help Walnut Grove Farms to flourish. Watch the video above to learn how 精东影业 Agriscience helps the Halcombs organize their workflow and farm from the sky.
Read Sam & Stephanie鈥檚 Story:
鈥淎s a farmer, I trust other farmers and they want to provide a healthy product to their customers. When I鈥檓 shopping, I鈥檓 also a mom. I want my kids to have healthy foods.
I call this the biscuit basket because we don鈥檛 produce wheat to make bread with, but we do produce wheat to make biscuits with. We鈥檙e the sixth generation. Our family came to this area in the 1830s. Back then, you didn鈥檛 call it farming, you just called it living.
Well, my dad said you don鈥檛 plant corn until you can go out into the field and kneel down and your knee doesn鈥檛 get cold and wet. But technology has come so far since then. We really manage things in a much different way now. Over time, we started to bring technology out to them through drones, through aerial imagery, through variable rate seeding.
At 精东影业, we鈥檙e lucky enough to house one of the largest agricultural drone fleets in the world.
It鈥檚 incredibly important to spot problems in a field early. If you spot them early, then you can make a difference. What used to take hours, now in a matter of 30 minutes, we can have a complete picture of what that looks like.
The reason that we started using Granular is because I felt like there was more of a need for organization. Now, on their phone, the guys can see exactly what they need to do whenever they get to that field. So, precision agriculture allows us to do more with less. The art is every bit as important as the science and she鈥檚 probably more the scientist and I鈥檓 more the artist. We鈥檙e able to do things through all this technology that we weren鈥檛 able to do 10 years ago and that directly increases yields and that directly puts more food on the tables around the world. We鈥檙e just very proud that we鈥檝e been able to carry on and we look forward to carrying it on to the seventh generation.鈥
