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Technology Helps Farmer Target Conservation
Winnebago County, Iowa, farmer Mark Kingland is utilizing technology such as yield monitors to help him decide where to locate conservation practices and a drone to plant cover crop seed, which will help treat natural resource concerns on his cropland. Kingland, who farms nearly 1,800 acres throughout the county with his brother, Tom, seeded several hundred cover crop acres for the first time in fall 2023 and used his new drone to broadcast the seed. He said he flew the drone about 12 feet above the corn canopy in Septemeber, applying a turnip, cereal rye, annual ryegrass, radish and hariy vetch seed mix. Kingland also used his drone for spraying fungicide.