Author Archives: Ed Foronda
OptiSurface in Germany
OptiSurface was featured in a German website. Here is the English translation of the section: Optimized arable land for more water efficiency Several good reasons to optimally prepare agricultural land, so that the factor of production water can be used more efficiently. In particular, the increase in extreme weather events, such as heavy rainfall, but…
OptiSurface Newsletter – 2016 June
Welcome to the fifth OptiSurface Newsletter. We are late so this is now the June newsletter and in future they will come out early each month. If you can’t see any images below, click ‘Display images below’ or similar in your email software. Our News shows our partner network growing amongst other things. The Design Of The Month shows…
Consquences of Poor Drainage
Poor germination A poorly drained soil is essentially a late soil. In any soil the temperature must reach a critical level before germination can take place. The evaporation of excess moisture uses up specific heat of the soil and one which is badly drained will be slower to warm up than that of a well…
OptiSurface Newsletter – 2016 Apr
Welcome to the fourth OptiSurface Newsletter. Our News of the Month has a good story from the Corn & Soybean Digest which featured OptiSurface. Plus a nice blog post where we show how wheel tracks can create ponding problems including a UAV video and drainage analysis. The Design Of The Month is a vegetable farm which had drainage problems…
Impact Of Wheel Tracks On Surface Drainage & Yield
Introduction This case study examines the impact that tractor wheel tracks can have on surface drainage and then yield. The case study is from a farm in USA that grows vegetables. The field has some depression area that hold water after rainfall events but this problem is exacerbated by the small furrows create by the ‘controlled…
Farm Potholes or Not – Alternative Strategy For Potholes
Corn+Soybean Digest by Liz Morrison Alternative Strategy for Potholes Use next-generation technology to improve water drainage New water modeling tools are helping some growers boost profits in farmed potholes. Instead of taking several perennially wet depressions out of production, Jonesboro, Ill., farmer Collin Cain used 3D GPS land-shaping technology to eliminate the potholes and correct…
OptiSurface Newsletter – 2016 Mar
Welcome to the third OptiSurface Newsletter. I hope you had a good Easter. I enjoyed a break in Sydney with the family including seeing the Socceroos beat Jordan 5:1 in a World Cup Qualifier. If you can’t see any images below, click ‘Display images below’ or similar in your email software. Our News feed has been busy…
OptiSurfacing – A Key Farm Investment
Wade Bidstrup of Aloe Farming Co. in southern Queensland, explained how Optimum Surface Landforming is a key investment for increasing the profitability of their dryland grain farm at the Australian ABARES Outlook Conference. Transcript So we’re from Warra, which is on the Darling Downs. It’s about 250 kilometres west of Brisbane. We grow summer and…
Record Harvest Becomes OptiSurface Landforming Software Partner
Jonesboro, Ark. and Nevada, Mo. (AgPR) March 1, 2016 — Arkansas-based OptiSurface, www.OptiSurface.com, Global Sales Manager Preston Marthey announces Record Harvest Enterprises, Inc., www.RecordHarvest.com, of Nevada, Missouri has become an OptiSurface Partner. Record Harvest will provide surface drainage solutions for clients using their patented 3D landform design software. GPS landforming is the reshaping of a fields topography to…
OptiSurface Newsletter – 2016 Feb
Welcome to the second Optisurface newsletter. I know we are late again but that leap thing threw me. 😉 Our Twitter feed has been busy this month as you can see below. If you can’t see the images below, click ‘Display images below’ in the box near the top of your message. The Design…