Machinery and irrigation
Parallel guidance system
A satellite-based navigation technology that assists machinery operators in driving agricultural equipment along precise paths to avoid overlaps and skips.
Agronomy knowledge
Agronomist dictionary
Short and clear definitions of agronomic terms: soil cultivation, sowing, nutrition, plant protection, machinery, and crop storage.
All topics535
Soil and tillage55
Sowing and varieties55
Nutrition and fertilizers55
Crop protection55
Machinery and irrigation55
Storage and economics55
Growth and development55
Weather and climate55
Breeding and seed production55
Digital farming40
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Machinery and irrigation
Pneumatic seeding system
A technology for delivering seeds to the furrow openers using a directed stream of compressed air.
Machinery and irrigation
Precipitation uniformity
A metric describing the degree of spatial consistency of rainfall across a field throughout the growing season.
Machinery and irrigation
Prescription map
A digital file that provides instructions to agricultural equipment to automatically adjust application rates for seeds, fertilizers, or chemicals across a fiel...
Machinery and irrigation
Pressure compensation (in drip irrigation)
A technology that maintains a constant water flow rate from each emitter regardless of pressure fluctuations or elevation changes across the field.