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AreaX.O - The Ottawa Smart Farm - powered by AgExpert - “Increasing Profit and decreasing GHG

8 Nov 2023

O Smart Farm Overview Establish Baseline Data Optimize Growing Conditions Precision Planting Real-time Monitoring Semi-autonomous Harvest Data Analysis Smart Farm data • Trimble • SWATmaps • Baseline mapping (.shp) • Pessl Metos • Strip-tilling • Air temperature (average, max, min) • Planting • Dew point (average, min) • Spraying • Solar radiation (average) • Soil Optix • Relative humidity (averag. [...] Two Types Of Strip Tillage Practices: a) Fertile-Stripping With Fertilizer blended in the Strips b) Conventional Strip-till Fertilizer Applied at bottom of strip 3. [...] No Tillage With Broadcast Fertilizer Applied Equipment • The coulter strip till was done with a down plurbis. [...] (United States Environmental Protection Agency -www.epa.gov) • Conventional Broadcasting technique –≈65.6 kg per hectare of N2O -≈19,680 kg of CO2 –≈ 4.27 passenger vehicle annual emission • Innovative Strip-till -≈ 1.1 kg per hectare of N2O -≈330 kg of CO2 -≈ 0.071739 passenger vehicle annual emission Suppose there are 1,000,000 hectare of farmland in Ontario, Conventional Broadcasting technique. [...] O Smart Farm Overview Slide Number 8 Slide Number 9 Smart Farm data Field Scale Trials Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Emission from Fertilizer 2021 4R Field Scale Trials Slide Number 14 Slide Number 15 2021 Cropping year – Dry weather conditions 2022 Cropping year – Wet weather conditions Corn From Different Farming Techniques 2022 Season Results 2023 Cropping year – Observations N20 Simulation and Predictio.

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Susanne Cork

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