The journalists at the Western Producer hooked a camera up to a cow’s halter to give us a look at a day in a beef cow’s life. It’s interesting to see, though the cow needs to work on her camera angles a bit more. With the miniaturization of cameras and their growing ubiquity, it wouldn’t [...]
The NCLE Newsletter pointed to Joe Ackerman and Nazim Cicek’s literature review Evaluation of the opportunity for manure treatment/processing technologies to achieve manure phosphorus balance (PDF). It’s definitely worth reading. The key problem is that manure supplies nitrogen and phosphate in roughly equal proportions and crops use roughly four times as much nitrogen as they [...]
It was a little disappointing to read that it’s Back to drawing board for variable-rate manure spreading. I’m not surprised, given that precision agriculture with highly consistent synthetic products is still in its infancy. There is talk of various systems for real-time measurement of nutrients in manure, so hopefully as those develop variable rate manure [...]
