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Assessment Of Pod Ceal Dc™ Effect On Grain Yield In Beans Using Multi-spectral Satellite Imagery And Yield Data
A. Melnitchouck
DynAgra Corp.

Pod Ceal DC™ from BrettYoung creates an elastic membrane over pods in canola, beans etc., which results in controlling shatter before combining. To carry out this on-farm experiment, an irrigated field was divided in two parts according to the yielding potential and topographical characteristics to ensure equal conditions for both variants of the experiment. Grain beans were grown in the field using conventional technology. Pod Ceal DC™ was applied three weeks before harvesting on 50% of the total field area (27 ha). The other part of the field did not receive the treatment. A map of Normalize Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) based on a Landsat 5TM image collected at the peak of the growing season was created for the whole field. During the harvesting, yield data were collected for the whole field. Since the NDVI image indicated the distribution of green biomass in the field, yield data from the part with Pod Ceal DC™ were used to estimate potential grain yield in both parts of the field. To calculate the effect of Pod Ceal DC™ on the yield of grain, at the next step the actual yield recorded by a yield monitor in the area with no Pod Ceal DC™ treatment was subtracted from the expected yield calculated from the satellite image. The difference was found to be 123.1 kg/ha-1. Based on current price of grain beans and the cost of application, the average net profit was $ 68.8 ha-1.

Keyword: precision agriculture, NDVI, yield data