Analytics
It all begins with a soil test. To maximize the genetic potential of your crop and to get the most of your fertility budget, you will need to know a few key items. What level of nutrients are in the soil; how much of each nutrient is required to achieve your target yield; and how to implement a full season nutrient management plan to address deficiencies and imbalances within the soil. Soil testing is the foundation of a sound agronomic plan.
Soil testing has never been this easy!
To drive productivity, knowing what nutrients are in your soil is fundamental in determining what to invest in. Today, for a number of reasons, only 20% of fields are sampled annually and of the fields tested, less than 50% have a complete (macronutrient and micronutrient) analysis performed on them.
To evolve soil testing and to support increased crop production, NutriScan is a game changing diagnostic technology that gives you access to real time, in-field monitoring of your soil’s nutrient status. This hand-held device gives you a complete assessment of the nutrient status of your soil in a matter of minutes.
Evolution of Analytics
Need to Evolve and Think Differently
- Most growers only do a single soil test per field and not every year.
- I think this is not the best use of your money
- Need more than a single data point to build a robust crop nutrition plan:
- Multiple soil tests:
- Grid sampling
- Zone sampling
- Ground truth imagery data
- Multiple soil tests:
- Work towards complete in field diagnostics
- Portable NIR technology
Frequency of Soil Testing Nitrogen (Canada)
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Market Proven - Provides Accurate Diagnostics
- NutriScan fertility recommendations are based upon prediction models that have been created through an extensive calibration process using more than 21,000 samples world wide.
- Over 1,700 North America soil samples were collected and run through the Gold Standard Lab (GSL) in the Netherlands to calibrate the technology for North America.
- The GSL measures 93 different parameters using 4 different extraction techniques to calibrate the NutriScan.
- With the introduction of Machine Learning, predictive modelling is constantly evolving to provide even greater accuracy.
- NutriScan is the only real-time sensor technology with WEPAL certification (Wageningen Evaluating Programmes for Analytical Laboratories).
Importance of Correlation
To gain a better understanding on how NutriScan correlates to North American conditions, soil samples were collected and sent to leading independent wet chemistry laboratories for a complete nutrient analysis (the graphs below highlight the results for Nitrate Nitrogen and Boron). Two key learnings came from this experiment:
- Different labs have different values and attention levels when measuring the same element.
- NutriScan also has a unique set of values and attention levels, but most importantly provide results that are consistent and comparable with the wet chemistry laboratories.
