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A new tool to scout your fields

Jason Webster runs the Practical Farm Research facility in Downs, Ill. for Beck’s Hybrids.  He openly admits while he preaches to farmers to scout their fields regularly he doesn’t do it on his own farm.  But, Webster says the days of not knowing what happens in your field can be over.   He says one of the things they want their producers to see is that we are able to scout our fields better.  Crop health imagining uses remote sensing; arial imagining allows growers to find out to the row what’s happening in their fields.  Webster says he wants growers to think about how they can use it for next year.  He says crop health imaging can change the way we farm, help us to learn more and make us better.

Webster notes the crop health imaging can be used in conjunction with their Land View App that’s available for the iPhone and iPad.  He says the two products used together allow farmers to go directly to the problem in the field and if found early enough enable the farmer to correct the problem.