Agriculture information systems for the beet sugar industry

Abstract

Today, collecting accurate information from growers and delivering meaningful reports is more important than ever for companies in the sugar industry. Near real-time data collection and reporting provides competitive advantage and improves value-added services for sugar companies and their growers. The challenge in the past has been collecting accurate information in a timely and complete fashion so that assessments could be passed onward to growers. Newer computerized technologies and widespread use of the Internet now allows companies to produce agriculture information systems that positively impact production and quality and add value to existing services. Discussed and shown will be some of the technology employed by AgTerra Technologies, Inc. being used in the sugar industry including Internet based forms and reports, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Pocket PC, and digital pen and paper applications.