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Site-Specific Recording of Yields

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Site-specific recording of yields, also known as geo-referenced yield detection or yield monitoring, contributes to site-specific precision farming concepts by delivering fundamental information about the diversity of the yield potential. It is feeding back the effects of site-specific management on yields and allows to calculate the exports of nutrients.

In the early 1990th it started with combine harvesters and continuously working systems for recording yields in combination with the position of the machine. It followed site-specific yield measurement systems for forage harvesters, cotton pickers or strippers, potato and sugar beet harvesters, peanut and grape harvesters as well as sugar cane harvesters. Attempts were made to determine site-specific yield of manually harvested cultures like oranges, apples or coffee. Testing procedures to determine the accuracy of material flow sensors and yield measurement systems in the laboratory and in the field have been standardized.

Systems for site-specific recording of yields in combine-harvesters, forage choppers and cotton pickers are available at the market. The adoption in professional farming is concentrating on combinable crops. Efforts are needed to make systems available for all important crops, to integrate the sensing of essential crop ingredients and to standardize data formats as well as algorithms for data filtering and data analysis.

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Demmel, M. (2013). Site-Specific Recording of Yields. In: Heege, H. (eds) Precision in Crop Farming. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6760-7_12

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