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Using Gin Data Can Lead Greater Efficiencies plate 3/7/14 3:26 PM PageTo 1 We hear about “big data” all the time. All kinds of claims about data are made by all kinds of people. “Data makes our lives better and cheaper.” Or “data is the end of the world,” some say. “Data is why we have so many nice things,” others claim. Let’s talk a bit about data and how it relates to gins. Whether we like it or not, we’re in the data business. Yes, even gins. I had the pleasure to teach at the Stoneville gin school this year. During the continuing education section, one of the presenters got a lot of attention. His topic was on the use of individual roll serial number data for tracking modules instead of using module load tags. This started a big discussion, and a lot of very smart people (the students) began talking about the possibilities of using such a system or a variation of it. I began thinking about all the data you as ginners keep track of every day. Producer information, classing data, module data, module location in the fields, module location on the yard, bales in the warehouse, warehouse receipts – the list goes on.
The more data we have, the more ways there are to use that information. Here is one of the familiar examples used in the school. Because each module retains its own identity, you can marry the classing data, field GPS data, yield information with your fertilizer applications, plant growth regulator data, harvest moisture and others to come up with a LOT of management tools used in precision ag. Map your fields with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and think of how that additional data can be used. The entity that can put all of this together can make itself quite valuable to the producer customer as well as find new ways to squeeze every penny out of resources farmers have available. Efficiency is the only way we are going to survive
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