Description
Support crop production and farm management by applying geospatial and digital agriculture tools (GIS, GPS, sensors) for scouting, variable-rate applications, yield mapping, and irrigation management. Collect, analyze, and report field data; build and interpret maps and remote-sensing imagery; and set up, calibrate, and maintain equipment to optimize performance, profitability, and sustainability.
- • Program variable-rate planters, sprayers, and irrigation controllers using scouting data and field variability analysis.
- • Compare yield maps with soil tests, input applications, and other layers to build site-specific management plans.
- • Install, calibrate, and maintain sensors, rate controllers, GPS guidance, and machine settings.
- • Collect soil, crop, and boundary data with field recorders and basic GIS.
- • Determine spatial coordinates using GPS and remote sensing data.
- • Delineate georeferenced management zones by soil traits and production potential.
- • Identify pesticide treatment zones by analyzing geospatial insect and damage patterns.
- • Recommend crop varieties, hybrids, or seeding rates based on field zone analysis.
- • Create, layer, and analyze maps of yields, soils, inputs, terrain, drainage, and management history.
- • Coordinate with equipment vendors for technical support and updates.
- • Analyze remote-sensing imagery to relate soil quality, canopy density, reflectance, and weather.
- • Maintain accurate digital and paper records of field data and analyses.
- • Read and produce soil, contour, and plat maps for field operations.
- • Advise on GPS hardware, correction services, and firmware upgrades.
- • Apply data-driven practices to reduce environmental impacts and improve input efficiency.
- • Assist in trials to advance agricultural technology, such as weed identification or automated spot-spraying.
- • Recommend boom-spray setup and practices to minimize overapplication and off-target movement.
- • Use geospatial tools to design soil sampling grids and select sites for N, P, K, pH, and micronutrients.
- • Demonstrate GIS, GPS, auto-guidance, variable-rate applicators, surveying tools, and mapping software to staff.
- • Process harvester monitor logs to produce accurate yield maps.
- • Analyze geospatial data to assess effects of soil, terrain, productivity, fertilizers, and weather.
- • Prepare tabular and graphical reports summarizing field productivity, costs, and profitability.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
