Ag Leader Technology Blog

With fall upon us, another management decision that may be on your list is whether you are going to soil sample your fields. Soil sampling your fields can help you do several things. The first item that comes to people’s mind is the ability to create variable rate prescriptions based off of the lab results you receive after sampling. Another benefit to soil sampling that may not be quite as obvious is that this provides an extra layer of data for analysis. For example, you can overlay a grain harvest map with a soil sampling map and then compare the soil test value for high and low yielding areas. How much yield difference do you notice between areas that have different soil test results?

This video tutorial demonstrates how to define soil sampling points, grids or regions in SMS Mobile, and how to adjust the grid size and alignment. In addition, it shows how to use Navigation tools to drive to a sample site.

If your farm is like ours, we have a regular cycle of soil sampling our fields to keep tabs on the soil fertility we are dealing with.  Whether you are grid sampling or zone sampling, it is a good management practice to take regular samples to ensure fields don’t become deficient in essential nutrients and [...]

A widely debated topic in the precision agriculture industry is its role in how to help you manage your farmland.  When it comes to soil sampling, I am not advocating any particular practice, or method, as your local area may have a method that works better as compared to other methods, but I will advocate [...]

We’re excited to announce SMS Mobile PC – set for fall 2010 release. SMS Mobile PC is the same great application we’ve been selling for several years for Windows Mobile devices but now made to install on laptops, netbooks, and tablet PCs running Windows XP, VISTA, or 7 operating systems. We know many of you [...]