TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring spatial variation of lint yield, fiber quality, gross revenue, and net profitability in a cotton field
T2 - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2008
AU - Ge, Yufeng
AU - Thomasson, J. Alex
AU - Sui, Ruixiu
AU - Sjolander, A. J.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This paper describes using a wireless communication and GPS-based electronic system for exploring spatial variation of lint yield, fiber quality, gross revenue, and net profitability in a cotton field. The system utilizes GPS mounted on the cotton picker to record the location information of each cotton basket during harvest, and wireless communication to track the basket from picker to boll buggy and module builder. The result is a module area map that indicates from which part of the field each cotton module is harvested. After modules are ginned into bales and classified, the information concerning individual harvested modules (including acreage of module area, total lint weight, total market value, average yield, HVI fiber quality parameters, gross revenue, and net profitability) can be determined and associated with their geographic areas to develop a set of module level maps. The field test on a Texas A&M cotton field showed that the system could effectively and adequately reflect the spatial pattern of lint yield. Comparing to the conventional methods of exploring spatial variation in precision agriculture, this module by module approach is simple, straightforward, cheap, and therefore has great potential in application of precision agriculture for cotton production.
AB - This paper describes using a wireless communication and GPS-based electronic system for exploring spatial variation of lint yield, fiber quality, gross revenue, and net profitability in a cotton field. The system utilizes GPS mounted on the cotton picker to record the location information of each cotton basket during harvest, and wireless communication to track the basket from picker to boll buggy and module builder. The result is a module area map that indicates from which part of the field each cotton module is harvested. After modules are ginned into bales and classified, the information concerning individual harvested modules (including acreage of module area, total lint weight, total market value, average yield, HVI fiber quality parameters, gross revenue, and net profitability) can be determined and associated with their geographic areas to develop a set of module level maps. The field test on a Texas A&M cotton field showed that the system could effectively and adequately reflect the spatial pattern of lint yield. Comparing to the conventional methods of exploring spatial variation in precision agriculture, this module by module approach is simple, straightforward, cheap, and therefore has great potential in application of precision agriculture for cotton production.
KW - Cotton
KW - Fiber quality
KW - GPS
KW - Lint yield
KW - Precision agriculture
KW - Site specific crop management
KW - Wireless communication
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:63049087692
SN - 9781605605364
T3 - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2008, ASABE 2008
SP - 2706
EP - 2715
BT - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2008, ASABE 2008
PB - American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
Y2 - 29 June 2008 through 2 July 2008
ER -