TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial Analysis of Yield Monitor Data: Case Studies of On-farm Trials and Farm Management Decision-making
AU - Griffin, T.W.
AU - Dobbins, C.L.
AU - Florax, R.J.G.M.
AU - Lowenberg-De Boer, J.M.
N1 - Journal: Precision Agriculture
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - A 3-year case study was undertaken of how North American farmers use yield monitors for on-farm trials in farm management decision making. Case study methods were used because relatively few farmers quantitatively analyze yield monitor data. At this early research stage, insufficient farm management information about the data was available to ask the right questions in a large-scale survey. In addition to the formal case study of farmers experienced at using yield monitors to collect on-farm trial data, the study evaluated the effect of yield monitor data quality on farm decisions. Two levels of yield data quality included standard output where the default settings of farm-level mapping software were accepted and where filtering of the data was undertaken. Results indicated that yield data quality affects farm management decisions. In addition, farmers receiving a spatial analysis of their on-farm trial data tended to use split-field designs instead of replicated split-planter designs. They were also more confident in their decisions than before participation in the spatial analysis project, and made decisions more quickly. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
AB - A 3-year case study was undertaken of how North American farmers use yield monitors for on-farm trials in farm management decision making. Case study methods were used because relatively few farmers quantitatively analyze yield monitor data. At this early research stage, insufficient farm management information about the data was available to ask the right questions in a large-scale survey. In addition to the formal case study of farmers experienced at using yield monitors to collect on-farm trial data, the study evaluated the effect of yield monitor data quality on farm decisions. Two levels of yield data quality included standard output where the default settings of farm-level mapping software were accepted and where filtering of the data was undertaken. Results indicated that yield data quality affects farm management decisions. In addition, farmers receiving a spatial analysis of their on-farm trial data tended to use split-field designs instead of replicated split-planter designs. They were also more confident in their decisions than before participation in the spatial analysis project, and made decisions more quickly. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
U2 - 10.1007/s11119-008-9072-2
DO - 10.1007/s11119-008-9072-2
M3 - Article
SN - 1385-2256
VL - 9
SP - 269
EP - 283
JO - Precision Agriculture
JF - Precision Agriculture
IS - 5
ER -
