{"title":"Agriculture information systems for the beet sugar industry","authors":"Alan B. Telck","doi":"10.5274/ASSBT.2007.18","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":14415,"journal":{"name":"International Sugar Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2007-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Sugar Journal","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5274/ASSBT.2007.18","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Agricultural and Biological Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.
期刊介绍:
International Sugar Journal, first published in 1869, is a peer reviewed technical-trade journal focusing on latest developments in sugar technology and sugar industry. The journal embraces scientific and technical advances in agricultural production right through to the production of sugar crystal, as well as economic, trade and policy issues. Main topics include:
• sugarcane and sugar beet production
• front end operations
• cane and beet sugar manufacture
• sugar refining
• economics, trade and legislation and
• biorenewables (cogeneration, biofuels and biobased products)
Related topics, namely analysis, instrumentation, equipment and machinery, food and non-food uses of sugar and alternative sweeteners also form the focus of the journal.