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Land Grading For Irrigation
SAVE UP TO 80% in Earthworks When Land Grading for Irrigation! Find out how by clicking HERE. Land Grading for Irrigation: Design and Construction Source: C. F. Cromwell and Mark Peterson Department of Agricultural Engineering Phillip D. Coombs Natural Resources Conservation Service Land grading is reshaping the surface of land to planned grades for irrigation and…
John Deere iGrade & OptiSurface
How Is OptiSurface Compatible with John Deere iGrade? OptiSurface can produce two types of designs for John Deere IGrade: 1) Planar (Straight or Flat) Design Surfaces (2D) and, 2) Curved Design Surfaces (3D) The differences are explained below. PLANAR DESIGNS (2D) John Deere IGrade by itself can ONLY follow single plane designs. OptiSurface can be used…
Agricultural Land Leveling
What are the benefits of land leveling for Rice? 1. Higher Yield Good field leveling increases the rice yield considerably. In two experiments conducted at different localities, a strong correlation was found between the levelness of the land and crop yield. 2. Better Weed Control Agricultural Land leveling increases yield to a large extend because…
OptiSurface Development Commences
The OptiSurface concept was concieved by farmer, David Cox, after seeing the negative effects of tradional laser landforming. He enlisted Agricultural Engineer, Dr Graeme Cox to develop a software system to enable optimum surface landform designs which offer the benefits of tradional laser landforming but with much reduced earthworks and topsoil removal.