Thirty-Six producers located in eight counties agreed to assist the Foundation with this project.  They enrolled a minimum of 220 acres of their operations for four crop years of detailed soils, input application, and yield data collection.  This was a total of 9998 acres.   Each participant received an incentive payment to help cover the costs of purchasing grid soil sampling, variable rate and global positioning equipment.  The premise was that by precisely applying the fertilizer inputs the potential for pollution would be reduced. 

FINAL REPORT pdf (50 Mb)

Precision Ag
PowerPoint Presentation
click to download, beware 17Mb

presented at:

Southeastern Association of RC&D Councils, Inc.
Regional Conference
September 11, 2008
Wytheville, Virginia

National Association of RC&D Councils
Triennial Conference
June 16, 2009
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Presented by Dan Ellison at the conference