technology in agriculture

[jhonthewolf2]

im a 6th generation farmer and also a massive nerd 

i would love to chat with some of you about the tech we use because i think a lot of you would find it cool

 

[igormp]

Do you have any computer vision systems going on?

 

Also, is there any any kind of automated soil analysis in your place? Maybe something simple like checking the soil's pH level, NPK levels or just humidity levels.

 

Asking this because those are some of the stuff I've been working on personally as part of my Master's research  

[jhonthewolf2]

2 minutes ago, igormp said:

Do you have any computer vision systems going on?

 

Also, is there any any kind of automated soil analysis in your place? Maybe something simple like checking the soil's pH level, NPK levels or just humidity levels.

 

Asking this because those are some of the stuff I've been working on personally as part of my Master's research  

we actually have neither of those at the moment

we do soil analysis manually 

 

although hopefully we will be getting those things withing a degade

[OhYou_]

Do you guys do machine harvest? My company primarily does that. We've been in development with a company to install an optical sorting unit to the machines which is used to filter out debris/foreign objects and potentially later defects in the product itself. 
It's going to be a pretty big deal if it works reliably because it would eliminate the need to do it in processing, transporting extra waste, disposing it, all that, because it gets dropped in the field. 

 

It's pretty nice stuff, but I havent messed with it. I've worked with the ones in the process area and they are pretty interesting tech and extremely simple to understand. They use both optical and laser for the *vision*

[jhonthewolf2]

3 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

Do you guys do machine harvest? My company primarily does that. We've been in development with a company to install an optical sorting unit to the machines which is used to filter out debris/foreign objects and potentially later defects in the product itself. 
It's going to be a pretty big deal if it works reliably because it would eliminate the need to do it in processing, transporting extra waste, disposing it, all that, because it gets dropped in the field. 

 

It's pretty nice stuff, but I havent messed with it. I've worked with the ones in the process area and they are pretty interesting tech and extremely simple to understand. They use both optical and laser for the *vision*

we do row crop so we have been harvesting by machine for almost 80 years now

we do have yield monitoring systems in our harvester that we don't use but they are there