Areca and their associations are educating farmers on the use of precision agriculture and vrt tools. there is significant interest by farmers to better utilize agronomic information due to their rising input costs.  

Precision agriculture utilizes new technologies such as variable rate technology (VRT) which combines GPS, GIS and electronic controllers in the cab to alter the rate of product being applied to the field to optimize productivity. Precision agriculture and vrt rely on variability within the field.

Training farmers how to use the technologies of precision agriculture and variable rate technology (VRT) is complicated. ARECA and its Associations were pleased to offer training workshops throughout Alberta during March, 2010. To complement these workshops, a resource manual was written to support the presentations delivered at the workshops. The manual provides an overview of precision agriculture, GIS, GPS, VRT, economics, service providers, yield monitoring, remote sensing and websites/references.

VRT Resource Manual - See the Publications and Manuals Tab under Projects 

Precision Tools for On Farm Research