Category Archives: Agronomy

Assessment swarm/differentiated sowing maize+sunflower

Posted on 13. May 2025 by Moritz Gaßan

Assessment swarm Drones have become indispensable tools in agriculture in recent years and we have been using them successfully for years. The prompt availability of the collected data is a crucial prerequisite for being able to control agricultural processes efficiently. … Continue reading →

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On Farm Research (OFR) – research on your own farm, a foundation for knowledge-based decision-making

Posted on 13. May 2025 by Moritz Gaßan

In DLG Mitteilungen 3/2025, there is a very interesting article by Detlev Dölger under the heading “Consulting. It is becoming more individual” (https://www.dlg-mitteilungen.de/artikel/beratung-es-wird-individueller). Here are a few statements summarized and supplemented by our opinion: In the field of advice and … Continue reading →

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Differentiated maize sowing, check effects with OFR trials?

Posted on 13. May 2025 by Moritz Gaßan

Why differentiated seed in maize? Site-specific sowing in maize has been used more and more widely in practice for several years. The underlying agronomic rules (better soils with higher water storage capacity → higher sowing rate, poorer soils with poorer … Continue reading →

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Saving a trial after a supercell

Posted on 12. September 2024 by Moritz Gaßan

As anyone involved in agricultural trials knows, setting up and supervising a trial involves considerable effort. Not to mention the knowledge gained from such trials! It is more than a little frustrating when something goes wrong in the final phase, … Continue reading →

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Differentiated basal fertilization – an insight into the EXAgT system

Posted on 30. July 2024 by Moritz Gaßan

The value of correctly applied basal fertilization is and remains a part of crop production that should not be underestimated and plays a significant role in the harvest result. Deficits in the basal nutrient supply cannot be easily compensated for. … Continue reading →

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News from ISO FARM RESEARCH (IFR)

Posted on 6. May 2024 by Moritz Gaßan

At Agritechnica 2023, AMAZONE, EXA Computing, geo-konzept, Hanse-Agro, the Kiel University of Applied Sciences, the start-up AgDoIT and we received the DLG-Agrifuture Concept Winner award. Now it’s time to turn this concept into reality! We started with the automated trial … Continue reading →

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Application maps for growth regulators / Project “Boniturschwarm” (assessment swarm)

Posted on 28. March 2024 by Moritz Gaßan

Starting this year, we have been using our expertise not only to plan application maps for fertilisation, but also for growth regulators. As with N fertilisation, this is based on satellite data. As usual with EXAgT, we support you with … Continue reading →

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The problem of “automated” agronomy and in practice Satellite vs. plant sensor

Posted on 4. March 2024 by Moritz Gaßan

While browsing the LinkedIn platform, I found this interesting picture of Nathan Faleide, an AgTech specialist from the USA, seehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-faleide-036b43b5/ This illustrates my current experience in the creation of management zone maps (“potential maps”) from multi-year satellite data very well. … Continue reading →

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Challenges in the autumn satellite scan in late autumn 2023, you can still join!

Posted on 30. January 2024 by Moritz Gaßan

Since 2017, we have been successfully offering our “N fertilisation according to the measurement of N uptake by satellite in autumn” service for winter oilseed rape and winter wheat/barley/rye. This is based on cloud-free Sentinel-2 satellite measurement data before dormancy … Continue reading →

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