International Journal of Academic Engineering Research (IJAER)   Year: 2021 | Volume: 5 | Issue: 12 | Page No.: 26-32 Development of an Electronic Precision Soil Auger with Depth Control Ibiye Isaiah Akinimieofori, Beabu Bernard Dumkhana, Peremelade Perez Araka, Augusta Ayotamuno, Josiah Miebaka Ayotamuno Abstract: Proper soil sampling is a requisite for farmers in any forage or cropping system to determine the physicochemical properties of the soil. The emerging innovations in agriculture brought about the development of an electronic precision soil auger (EPSA) to provide timely and accurate soil cores per depth. This technology saves the excess use of human labour, time and also helps in the automation of agriculture. The EPSA was designed, constructed and tested on three different types of agricultural soil from sandy soil, clay soil, and loam soil. The drill depth was inputted using 4x4 keypad on a 16x2 liquid crystal display (LCD) screen, embedded with infra-red (IR) sensor that determine the required depth and carried out soil to the surface. The performance efficiency of EPSA when tested on 1meter sandy soil was 2.46seconds compared to 460.47seconds during manual drill, clay soil has 5.9seconds compared to 1666.67seconds, and loam soil 3.25seconds compared to 666.67seconds were obtained respectively. From the results shown, it is evidence that EPSA works satisfactorily without the physical effort required when using manual or hand drill. This study provide farmers the current trend on automation in agriculture through depth control sensor.