Jim Burton

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  See an explaination of how the AutoProbe works by Jim Burton, founder and inventor of the AutoProbe on AgProfessioanl.com by clicking here. Be First In The Field

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  Without hesitation, Jim Burton of Newport declares the process of soil testing as the single most mundane and backbreaking chore he had to endure in his 35 years of farming.
  
  Now Burton has designed a soil-testing product that has the agricultural industry buzzing.
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  "It's because it's just no fun," said Burton.
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  Jim Burton has always felt like an engineer and inventor disguised as a farmer. After earning an agricultural engineering degree from the University of Arkansas in 1965, he began his farming career in tiny Tupelo about 15 miles south of his home in Newport.
  
  When GPS technology took off commercially in the early 1990s, Burton says he envisioned great things for the agriculture industry, and most have come to pass.
  
  He applied that kind of vision to his longtime desire to simplify soil testing, and that was the start of AutoProbe.
  
  After finishing a prototype in 2002, running out of money and subsequently parking the project, he learned of the Donald W. Reynolds Governor's Cup business plan competition held annually by the UA's Sam M. Walton College of Business.
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  There's currently nothing like the AutoProbe on the market, according to Jim Burton. There are devices that do similar things, but most have to be pulled behind an all-terrain vehicle or pick-up truck that has to stop and start constantly.
  
  "In development, I knew if we could come up with a way to keep a soil tester moving, utilize GPS and GPS-related software, and find a way to make it easy for a farmer and cut back on time, then we'd have a winner," said Jim Burton.
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  Jim Burton added that cost saving on chemicals and fertilizers is extremely pertinent since the cost of fertilizer has nearly quadrupled in the past five or six years.
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  AgRobotics hired Diedrichs & Associates Inc. of Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Jim Burton has been living there and heading a team of engineers that is working out the final kinks. The firm is noted for the copious amount of work it does for nearby John Deere & Co.
  
  Some of the roadblocks the team has overcome include finding an efficient way to get the soil out of the collector, breaking it up, and getting it to the operator for packaging.
  
  "There was a lot of hit and miss, but we got it," said Jim Burton.

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  Jim Burton FounderAgRobotics
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  BIO: Mr. Burton was born and raised at Tupelo Arkansas, near Newport, on the family farm.He attended the University of Arkansas from 1960 through 1965 and graduated with a degree in Agricultural Engineering.After graduating he went to work on the family farm, where they raised cotton, soybeans & rice and operated a grain elevator, cotton gin, and a general mercantile store.He took over the operation of the farm after his father retired in 1981.He became interested in vegetables in the early 1980s and in 1986 he started a 300-acre commercial fresh market sweet corn operation along with a packing shed, twin tunnel hydrocooler, a cold room with a capacity of 200 tons of sweet corn (8 trailer truck loads), and a corn packing line with a daily thru put of 5000 crates of corn.In 1988 he started growing cucumbers for Atkins Pickle and grew spring and fall crops totaling approx 700 acres.He also grew spinach, greens (turnip, mustard, and collard), cabbage, and broccoli.In 1993 he developed a cucumber harvester, which was designed to go on a Pixall chassis, and in 1994 Pixall bought the rights to manufacture the harvester from Mr. Burton.In the early 1990s with the advent of GPS, he became interested in the commercial possibilities this technology presented for the farming community.Mr. Burton developed an on-the-go GPS controlled soil sampler in 2002 and a received a patent for this technology early in 2007.

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  AgRobotics LLC, formed in 2006 by Jim Burton, has been fine-tuning a first-of-its-kind product he invented that the company says will revolutionize the mundane practice of soil-testing farmland.

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  The AutoProbe is the culmination of several years of research and development by Jeff's father Jim Burton, an agricultural engineer and fourth-generation farmer, who founded AgRobotics in 2006.Patent protection has been received.

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  Jim Burton
  
  Founder
  
  AgRobotics
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  BIO: Mr. Burton was born and raised at Tupelo Arkansas, near Newport, on the family farm.He attended the University of Arkansas from 1960 through 1965 and graduated with a degree in Agricultural Engineering.After graduating he went to work on the family farm, where they raised cotton, soybeans & rice and operated a grain elevator, cotton gin, and a general mercantile store.He took over the operation of the farm after his father retired in 1981.
  
  He became interested in vegetables in the early 1980s and in 1986 he started a 300-acre commercial fresh market sweet corn operation along with a packing shed, twin tunnel hydrocooler, a cold room with a capacity of 200 tons of sweet corn (8 trailer truck loads), and a corn packing line with a daily thru put of 5000 crates of corn.
  
  In 1988 he started growing cucumbers for Atkins Pickle and grew spring and fall crops totaling approx 700 acres.He also grew spinach, greens (turnip, mustard, and collard), cabbage, and broccoli.
  
  In 1993 he developed a cucumber harvester, which was designed to go on a Pixall chassis, and in 1994 Pixall bought the rights to manufacture the harvester from Mr. Burton.
  
  In the early 1990s with the advent of GPS, he became interested in the commercial possibilities this technology presented for the farming community.
  
  Mr. Burton developed an on-the-go GPS controlled soil sampler in 2002 and a received a patent for this technology early in 2007.

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  >Jim Burton
  
  Founder, AgRobotics

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  5. Jim Burton In the early 1990s, Newport farmer Jim Burton started thinking that the new-fangled Global Positioning System could be used to automate one of the most mind-numbing, back-breaking chores in agriculture: soil sampling.

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  Jim Burton, founder of AgRobotics, Little Rock, Ark., and inventor of the AutoProbe, the first patented on-the-go soil sampler, explains the operation of the machine, which is currently being booked for pulling soil samples in California and the Midwest.

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  By David Bennettdbennett@farmpress.comIn the early 1990s, Jim Burton, tired and bored with yet another round of soil sampling, figured there had to be a better way.
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  Jim Burton, founder of AgRobotics, Little Rock, Ark., and inventor of the AutoProbe, the first patented on-the-go soil sampler, explains the operation of the machine, which is currently being booked ...

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