{"id":151,"date":"2015-11-23T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.useprecisionag.com\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2015-11-23T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T14:43:12","slug":"optrx-takes-big-data-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.useprecisionag.com\/blog\/optrx-takes-big-data-360\/","title":{"rendered":"OptRx Takes on Big Data and the 360"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Agriculture<\/a>I\u2019ve been in the agriculture business for 35 years, and throughout that time, I\u2019ve always made nitrogen recommendations based on yield potential. With the onslaught of new technology, I\u2019ve discovered that the way I\u2019d made nitrogen recommendations in the past wasn\u2019t the most effective way. To my surprise, for most of those 35 years I\u2019d actually been doing it wrong!<\/p>\n

Four years ago, I was hired to conduct\u00a0nitrogen yield trials. Instead of conducting only flat rate trials like everyone else, we let the grower tell us what he wanted to test. Most of what we discovered through these trials was inconclusive, except for one nitrogen application method, the Ag Leader OptRx.<\/p>\n

OptRx<\/a> crop sensors measure real-time infrared data on your crops\u2019 health and apply nitrogen based on your crops\u2019 specific needs. In the years we\u2019ve used OptRx, it\u2019s consistently performed positively each year, even against the drought of 2012 and the monsoons of 2015.<\/p>\n

To get a better picture of the results we\u2019ve achieved throughout the years with OptRx, let\u2019s take a look at the per-acre value OptRx added year-over-year on many replicated plots:<\/p>\n