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Author: traceyv

Announcing the IIPA Precision Agriculture Pre-Seed Grant Program FY2024

The IIPA is now soliciting applications for the FY2024 Integrative Precision Agriculture Pre-Seed Grant Program. The IIPA Pre-Seed Program provides early-stage developmental funding ($5,000/team) to facilitate the formation of faculty teams and collaboration around critical areas of research expertise or emerging research topics in the broad area of integrative precision agriculture (IPA). The goal of …

Pesticide Application Considerations with Spray Drones

With increased availability and interest in spray drones recently, we are starting to see more people getting into the spray drone application business as well as growers who are interested to learn more about the technology and its application capabilities. The wet weather during months of May and June across much of the southeastern US …

Calibrating Liquid Fertilizer Applicators Using Water

Liquid applicators are commonly used to apply different fertilizer solutions and similar to the sprayers, they need to be calibrated properly to apply the desired application rate in gallons per acre (GPA). While the calibration process for liquid fertilizer applicators is similar to the sprayers, the actual rate for the fertilizer can vary greatly from …