Tag Archives: agricultural earthworks
OptiSurface Newsletter – 2016 October
Welcome to the OptiSurface Newsletter. If you can’t see any images below, click ‘Display images below’ or similar in your email software. Our News shows some of the fields designed by our clients. The Design Of The Month shows an OptiSurface 1Way for conversion from Pivot to Linear Move Irrigation. The Feature Of The Month explains how to use the Profile Tool.…
OptiSurface in Mexico
John Allan Brealey of Inntagri promotes OptiSurface in the ATALC Congress in Veracruz, Mexico. What is variable slope in shaping agricultural land? This technique uses satellite leveling system Trimble Field Level II with three dimensions (3D) OptiSurface designs for optimum surface with the lowest earthwork. Compared to traditional leveling, saving between 50% to 80% of…
Reduce Water Logging By Optimising Traffic Direction With OptiSurface Drainage Analysis
Tim Naele of www.precisionagriculture.com.au discusses on the Conservation Farmers Inc. Newsletter how OptiSurface helped determine the best wheel track direction for a field to significantly reduce water logging. Controlled traffic has been broadly adopted across Australia to help manage the impact of compaction. Over two million hectares of Australia’s cropping areas is now cropped under…
OptiSurface At The International Controlled Traffic Farming Conference
By Clarissa Collis Heavy rain over three days provided a wet backdrop to the first International Controlled Traffic Farming Conference held at the Empire Theatre in Toowoomba, Queensland, in late March. It was the beginning of three weeks of rain that caused more flooding across southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, and starkly emphasised…
OptiSurface Newsletter – 2016 August
Welcome to the OptiSurface Newsletter. If you can’t see any images below, click ‘Display images below’ or similar in your email software. Our News shows Thailand getting acquainted with OptiSurface. The Design Of The Month shows an OptiSurface 2Way Circle design to eliminate ponding areas caused by center pivot wheel tracks. The Feature Of The Month explains how to use the OptiSurface Circle Surface…
OptiSurface Newsletter – 2016 July
Welcome to the sixth OptiSurface Newsletter. If you can’t see any images below, click ‘Display images below’ or similar in your email software. Our News shows new users of OptiSurface around the world. The Design Of The Month shows an OptiSurface 2Way design to solve ponding problems created by controlled traffic. The Feature Of The Month explains how to use the…
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…
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…