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Effects of precision potato planting using GPS-based cultivation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2017

Y. Reckleben ,
T. Grau ,
S. Schulz  and
H. G. Trumpf
Y. Reckleben*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Machinery at Kiel University of Applied Sciences
T. Grau
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Machinery at Kiel University of Applied Sciences
S. Schulz
Affiliation:
profi, Landwirtschaftsverlag GmbH, Münster
H. G. Trumpf
Affiliation:
solana GmbH & Co. KG, Germany, Hamburg
*
† E-mail: yves.reckleben@fh-kiel.de
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Abstract

Site-specific management provides the ability to align the production intensity to demand and thus adjust the expenses to the necessary level. So it is possible to increase the proportion of marketable commodity in the normal sort–size of 40 mm to 60 mm. Planting distances adapted to the soil properties seem to achieve this objective. It is possible to further optimize the proportion of marketable commodity especially in the potato regions where irrigation and fertilization already contribute to a consistently high yield. Different planting distances on the soil sites by EM38 were tested in field trials. Planting distances of 31.50 cm in the row on the light (sandy) soil, 24.50 cm on middle and 27.50 cm on the heavy soil sites seems the best for these three years. There is a yield impact in total, as well as in the proportion of marketable commodity. Depending on the planting strategy, increases in income up to €153 per hectare can be obtained.

Keywords

on farm researchapparent soil electromagnetic conductivityeconomic analysismarketable yield
Type
Tillage and Seeding
Information
Advances in Animal Biosciences , Volume 8 , Special Issue 2: Papers presented at the 11th European Conference on Precision Agriculture (ECPA 2017), John McIntyre Centre, Edinburgh, UK, July 16–20 2017 , July 2017 , pp. 450 - 454
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© The Animal Consortium 2017 

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