Rapid Pasture Meter

The new Rapid Pasture Meter offers high speed, accurate pasture measurement from your ATV or farm vehicle. It has been developed by C-Dax Systems Ltd, The concept originally came out of the New Zealand Center for Precision Agriculture at Massey University. Massey continues to provide input into ongoing development of the technology.

The new system is ideally suited to dairy and intensive grazing farming systems such as bull beef on flat to rolling terrain.

The Pasture Meter up to a speed of 20 km/hour, taking 200 measurements / second. This means one measurement is taken every 27 milliseconds meaning you can expect reliable, repeatable results every time. This allows you to quickly and accurately measure pregrazing cover and grazing residuals for easy identification of poor paddocks or quality issues.

The Pasture Meter has been designed to encourage the measurement of pasture residuals which is seen as important to ensure maximum utilisation from your pasture. Much of the guarding around the unit is designed to keep the sensors clean while measuring heavily soiled paddocks.

Initially two versions will be available;

Tier1 - is a read only system that produces pasture cover averages for you to record as you complete each paddock. The system is bundled with P-Plus PastureCover software.

Tier 2 – is enabled with Bluetooth™ wireless and allows you to collect data from multiple paddocks which can be downloaded to your computer, so there is no need to carry a pen and pad with you.

A third, Tier 3, incorporating GPS and yield mapping capability is currently under development.

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