Analyze and plan your crops with AgConnexion

The AgConnexion digital platform is an essential tool that helps farmers analyze the data collected in a given growing season. With this analysis, farmers can better plan for their next season and make the right decisions at the right time.

First, it is important to take the time to transfer your data from your GPS data sensor to the AgConnexion | SmartFarm module so that you can conduct the analysis. Everything is archived and accessible in a single click, according to agronomist Hicham Bencharki, Manager, Digital Product and Innovation for Sollio Agriculture.

This is also a good time to sit down with your agri-advisor and look over your collected data more closely. This data can come from many sources, including:

• Digital field records module

• Machine sensors

• Seeding maps

• Application maps

• Yield maps

• Laboratory-integrated data

• Soil analyses

• Weather data

• Satellite imagery data collected throughout the season
   

Better planning through data analysis

AgConnexion digital technology allows you to collect and leverage a range of tangible data to help you make decisions suited to your needs.

The data collected can help you assess how the season went and conduct performance analyses on your crops and yields: Which crops had the best results this season? Which hybrids and varieties were they? How did different crop management practices affect plot performance?

You will also be able to see how you managed your plots and input applications compared to previous seasons.

The AgConnexion suite also allows you to compare soil analyses and look at how fertility elements in your land have changed over time, so that you can adapt your management each season.

Your results can be influenced by many factors, including:

• Sowing date

• State of ground during sowing

• Weather conditions during sowing and throughout the season

• Rainfall

• Heat and water stress during key phases of plant growth

• Weed control and crop protection strategy

• Pests and diseases

Based on your observations, you’ll be able to analyse the decisions you’ve made in the past and the solutions you want to add to your farm management methods in the future.

All this information will help you make better decisions next season.

You can also conduct cost-benefit sensitivity analyses to get an idea of how to make your crop management more profitable based on production costs, yields and market prices.
 

Yield maps

One method of analysis offered on AgConnexion involves layering yield maps from different years on top of each other. Just use the multi-year yield module.

This analysis can give you information on yield stability, average relative yield and standardized yield. These results can help you plan your next planting season and input management.
 

Source: This article was originally published in French in the January–February 2021 issue of Coopérateur magazine.