Guiding Right: A GPS guidance system can make planting through stubble a breeze

摘要

FOR YEARS growers have realized the importance of accuracy in planting. If you can put a seed down in the same spot year after year, you're going to achieve a more fertile, less compact seed bed with more organic activity. And with the introduction of a cover crop into many fields across the Mid-South and Southeast, those seed beds are becoming even more fertile. Growers who plant legumes ahead of their cotton are familiar with the benefits of residual nitrogen, for instance.