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Spotlight on Agriculture

Our June 2003 Spotlight topic focuses on:

Agriculture

The crop season is here and Exergen IRt/c's play a major role in growing crops at the lowest cost, with speed and accuracy, review the following links for reports from the United States Department of Agriculture, Texas A&M, and Apogee Instruments.

http://www.cprl.ars.usda.gov/wmru/wfront/wf2-2/wf2-2.pdf

http://www.cprl.ars.usda.gov/wmru/pdfs/96et_aic.pdf

http://www.cprl.ars.usda.gov/programs/irsym001.pdf

http://precag.tamu.edu/files/rep41/PA-Helms-2002.html

http://precisionagriculture.tamu.edu/files/rep7/Piccinni2002PrecisionAgcomprehensivereport.pdf

http://twri.tamu.edu/reports/2003/2003-003/sr2003-003-handouts.pdf

Apogee Instruments http://www.apogee-inst.com/irt_spec.htm offers unique packages to the industry, with dual output model IRt/c's to increase the overall accuracy with a wide ambient temperature range (-5 - 45C), they have done custom programming specifically for typical agricultural applications. For areas where there are high droughts, the IRt/c can help the irrigation process by assuring that the crop is only watered at the temperatures where absolutely necessary.

Happy Growing!!