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Map Examples Site-specific farming is a
different way of thinking about the land. A field boundary is
defined by a surveyor and a legal description. Fields are square or
rectangular in shape because of the initial surveying conducted many
years ago. However, the lands inside these fields are variable-
which means they are not the same. Some differences between soils
are small, but often the differences are very large. Site-specific
farming is used to measure what is different, record the differences
at distinct and specific locations, and then direct differences in
management or input based on site-specific information. So
site-specific farming is managing areas within fields, rather than
using the same management on the field based only on legal
description boundaries.
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