Know precisely where your soil is compacted—and by how much.
Heavy equipment traffic, resting machinery, and water flow across seasons can cause compaction in fields. Even moderate compaction can inhibit the root growth of corn and soybeans. Deep tillage loosens the soil, but it's a costly and time-consuming process.
Soil compaction can
reduce yield
as much as 60 percent1
Cost to Growers
$10-20B
due to soil compaction2
EarthOptics TillMapper technology solves the problem and saves on average $30 per acre with a 20% yield increase. This precision soil mapping system and methodology precisely identifies the areas and depths where each individual field is compacted and quantifies the extent of the compaction. Using this data, growers are provided with a customized tillage prescription that can be adjusted to their preferences, including compaction threshold, max tillage depth and specific crop.
The output can be exported as either a multi-depth prescription or a binary till/no-till prescription, in any number of standard file types. As a result, growers can confidently till only where needed and to quantified levels.
1 University of Minnesota Extension
2 Goldman Sachs Precision Farming Report
Till only where needed, with confidence
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