Identifying Field Boundaries
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
Field boundaries are one of those things in agriculture that everyone has their own interpretation of. That’s why one of AgGateway’s primary tasks when starting up was defining what a field actually is, says Jeremy Wilson, executive vice president, and COO.
Wilson… “There’s probably going to ultimately be more than one field shape that represents that boundary and how do we put terms and definitions around that so that maybe there is some overarching shape that may be how Jeremy Wilson farms that farm, but there’s very local reasons why there’s other shapes that exist whether it be for reporting purposes, maybe it’s for just this season, and probably we’re going to call on some of the other work that we’ve done in the past and some data linking where link multiple pieces of data back into a single identifier so we know where it all comes from. I think in the end that may be where we end up Tim, but we just had to first define some things because if you look at my own farm I can show you some GIS software right now. I have at least probably seven representations of the same piece of real estate that I’ve farmed for the last 35 years. And how do we solve that problem because if you’re going to supply a recommendation to me, whether its seed, fertilizer, chemical, when I pull up that piece of equipment, I have to have the right representation of that piece of real estate I’m about to apply product to or it doesn’t work.”
AgGateway is a member-based, global nonprofit data organization bringing together various companies to try and solve common industry issues.
