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UW-Madison Launches New Corn Harvest App
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 09/25/2018
A new tool developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could save farmers time and money during the fall feed-corn harvest and make for more content, productive cows year-round.
The SilageSnap smartphone app is now available for free download on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
The program is a convenient and accurate in-the-field alternative to after-the-fact processing scores for cracked corn.
"Cracked corn makes the feed easier to digest, so cows can produce more milk," says Brian Luck, a UW-Madison assistant professor of biological systems engineering and extension machinery systems specialist, who helped develop the app.
To use the app, farmers merely spread out a small sample of corn, set down a coin to calibrate for pixel size, and snap a photo with their phones. Image-processing algorithms then calculate kernel-processing scores right there in the field, instead of weeks after
the harvest at an external lab.
More information is available at https://go.wisc.edu/silagesnap.
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