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Description
Project research will focus on soil structure, rooting depth, and landscape features (e.g. slope, aspect,
elevation) for management zone development. UKY personnel will develop management zones in
partnership with farmer cooperators using all available data. Management zones delineate areas
within a field allowing farmers to tailor inputs and management decisions to those areas. UKY
personnel will develop zone maps using Management Zone Analyst (MZA), a free statistical
software produced by the USDA-ARS (Fridgen et al., 2004), and QGIS, an open source, free GIS
software available to the public (QGIS Development Team, 2009). We will also develop zone maps
using commercial software packages (e.g. SMS Software by AgLeader, FarmWorks by Trimble). We
will compare management zone maps generated by MZA to those generated by the commercial
software packages. An extensive body of scientific papers provide transparency regarding the
statistics used by MZA software to produce the management zones. Conversely, the commercial
software packages rarely provide the statistical calculations occurring in the background when
developing zones. Comparing the two will provide some insight into the validity of commercial
software zone delineation.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 9/1/19 → 7/1/22 |
Funding
- Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association: $30,000.00
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