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Using Fieldwork Days Data to Manage Fieldwork

Ray Massey and Pat Guinan University of Missouri Commercial Ag Program. Using Fieldwork Days Data to Manage Fieldwork. Crop Progress and Fieldwork Days. April through November USDA data – Reporters’ opinion of crop conditions and soil conditions allowing equipment into the field

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Using Fieldwork Days Data to Manage Fieldwork

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  1. Ray Massey and Pat Guinan University of Missouri Commercial Ag Program Using Fieldwork Days Data to Manage Fieldwork

  2. Crop Progress and Fieldwork Days • April through November USDA data – • Reporters’ opinion of • crop conditions and soil conditions allowing equipment into the field • Percent of crops at various stages • http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Missouri/Publications/Crop_Progress_and_Condition/

  3. Crop Reporting Districts

  4. NW Missouri Field Workdays

  5. NW Corn Planting Date Average Date of Last Spring Frost

  6. Missouri April Precipitation

  7. Median Date of Last Spring Frost (≤32°F) 1971-2000

  8. NW MO Corn Planting: Median date

  9. NW MO Corn Planting: Days between 25th and 75th percentiles

  10. NW Corn Harvesting Date Average Date of First Fall Frost

  11. Factors Affecting Planting Date • Weather: rainfall and temperature • Seed Coats • Seed Genetics • Seed Company Promotions – replant provisions • Adoption of no-till • Larger equipment – faster planting • Larger farms • Custom fertilizer and farming

  12. Uses of PFDM • Equipment management – number of pieces of equipment necessary to complete fieldword with confidence. • Land acquisition questions – can I add 200 acres with existing equipment? • Cropping dynamics – given delayed planting, what is the probability successfully carrying out current cropping plan. • Nutrient management plans – probability of completion for regulatory purposes

  13. crops.missouri.edu

  14. MU Resource Guides • Crops.missouri.edu • Swine.missouri.edu • Beef.missouri.edu • Dairy.missouri.edu

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