General Sessions

Purdue University Site-Specific
Showcase

Vendor Sessions

Session 1: Does Site-Specific Management Really Work?

Monday 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Stewart Center, Room 202

This session will provide perspectives on where site-specific management systems are unlocking the door for farmers and researchers to help fine-tune management systems and take advantage of the new technologies to build better crop and soil management systems.

• Assembling and Interpreting a Site-Specific Database for a Field (Workshop)
  Nathan Watermeier, The Ohio State University

• Applying Site-Specific Tools in Soil Fertility Research
  Sylvie Brouder, Purdue University

• Precision Agriculture: Where’s the Beef?
  Stephen W. Searcy, Texas A&M University
  

Session 2: Remote Sensing for Site-Specific Systems

Monday 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Stewart Center, Room 202

Remote sensing is experiencing a re-birth as a management tool for farmers and their advisers. Several current research programs in the public and private sectors will be reviewed in this session, showing some very successful and practical applications of remote sensing technology in crop and soil management.

• Using Remote Sensing to Help Explain Variability in a Field
  Paul Carter/Chris Johannsen, Purdue University

• Remote Sensing as a Tool for Managing Cotton Production
  Ken Hood, Perthshire Farms, Gunnison, MS

• Moving the Cotton Experience to the Corn/Soybean Belt
  Tim Gress, ITD Spectral Visions, Champaign, IL

• Integrating Remote Sensing, Modeling, GIS and Other Tools into Site-Specific Management Systems…On-Farm Experience
  Marshall Beatty, Emerge, West Lafayette, IN
  

Session 3: Spatial Statistics as a Management Tool

Tuesday 7:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Stewart Center, Room 202

Don Bullock, University of Illinois agronomist and biometry specialist, will lead a general workshop on statistical tools useful for analyzing spatially referenced data sets. General concepts will be interspersed with in-depth discussion of their practical application in dealing with site-specific data and management decisions. This session will be especially useful for anyone who is looking for a better understanding of the proper ways to determine sampling density and proper interpretation of spatially structured data sets. The discussion of potential mistakes in handling spatially structured data will be especially helpful.

• Issues Around Geo-Spatial Statistics Workshop
  Don Bullock, Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois
  

Session 4: Modeling and Weather Data

Tuesday 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Stewart Center, Room 202

Through the support of the Soybean Check-off program, an intensive multi-state project has been initiated to demonstrate and evaluate the use of simulation models as a management tool for Midwest soybean farmers. This session will review the project from the perspectives of researchers and farmers, as well as discuss the development and maintenance of the data sets needed to run and to evaluate such model tools.

• Weather-Driven Crop Models and Decision Support Systems
  Jim Jones, University of Florida

• Application of Crop Models and Decision Support Systems to Precision Agriculture
  Bill Batchelor, Iowa State University

• Farm Experience with Models and Decision Support Systems
  Ken Dalenberg, Illinois Farmer

• Weather Resources and Field Data Collection for Model Use
  Steve Hollinger, Illinois State Water Survey
  

Session 5: Database Management for the Future

Tuesday 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Stewart Center, Room 202

Data management is becoming one of the biggest challenges of site-specific management. Leaders in the development of centralized data storage, management and interpretation services will share their concepts and describe their services as examples of services to help farmers and their advisers manage their growing collections of date.

• Vantage Point Network
  Tom Krill, VantagePoint Network

• SST Information Lab Program
  David Waits, SST Development Group, Inc.

• Ag-Chem Data
  Joe Tevis, SOILTEQ AgCentral Service

Session 6: Design and Analysis of On-Farm Research

Wednesday 7:30 - 9:30 a.m.
Stewart Center, Room 202

The new technology tools of site-specific management systems are enabling farmers and people who work with farmers to become involved in scientifically sound on-farm research. The process of setting up plots, collecting and analyzing the data, and interpreting the results for management decisions is still a tedious and time-consuming process. But if certain guidelines and design procedures are not followed, the results of such trials can be misinterpreted and lead to costly mistakes in decisions. Ron Milby, GROWMARK, Inc, will lead a discussion/demonstration session on the development and use of a software package that helps facilitate the layout of on-farm research plots and the management and interpretation of the data collected. The Farm Research Analyst is an example of an extension to ArcView GIS which greatly reduces the effort involved in the proper approach to field research.

• Development and Application of Data Analysis Tools for On-Farm Research
  Ron Milby, Growmark

• Development and Application of the Farm Research Analyst for On-Farm Research
  to be announced
  

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