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southern MN | The corn field under/left of us was pattern tiled 5-6 years ago.
The corn field along the trees I just bought, same type of ground planted same week, little tile.
(Lot of tile mains were put in around here from 1950s-1970s, but it was all mains following the valley to drain out the potholes, there wasn't much if any pattern tiling. Even 6 years ago when I pattern tiled that one 40, couple fellas stopped and asked me if I was putting in so much tile, doesn't need that much for a field with hills like it is....)
I have been following the corn progress weekly with the drone and it's pretty clear what a difference tile makes on crop condition in my wet clayish region.
Showed the wife one of these pictures, and she said well a pic says a lot doesn't it, we will be getting the checkbook out again this spring for tile I see. Sure makes a difference.
Lot of potential for all the different types of sensors and counts and all that can be developed and used in scouting ag crops. Kinda hard to contemplate really.
Paul
Edited by paul the original 8/11/2016 12:20
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Automated crop counts / stand counts
