HotSpot AG’s latest innovation, TAC-Box, is engineered for full customization that allows for tracking and control of your water management. This versatile monitoring enclosure offers comprehensive solutions for all your monitoring needs. From pressure and flow monitoring to soil and weather monitoring, the TAC-Box has you covered. With reduced maintenance requirements and lower costs compared to our previous monitoring box, the TAC-Box is the ultimate solution for efficient and cost- effective monitoring on your farm. LahakX , an agricultural spraying drone technology builder and operator, announced that it has been granted a new patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). This achievement underscores the company’s ongoing commitment to agricultural spraying innovation and its dedication to advancing autonomous swarming and spot-spraying. “We are excited with the successful completion of this process that has been years in the making,” said Dr. Itzik Turkel, LahakX Co-Founder and CTO. “Our new Intellectual Property asset perfectly aligns with our vision and implementation. We will continue developing new drone capabilities to better serve our customers and the entire agricultural spraying ecosystem. Ag spraying drones should collaborate to achieve optimized coverage and utilize agronomy data for precision applications.” The patented technology involves a comprehensive method that incorporates the processing of field images to identify crop status and necessary treatments. This information is crucial for selecting field zones for precise spot-spraying and integrating field parameters. The system efficiently manages a spraying vehicle fleet by calculating optimal travel plans, ensuring precision in spraying designated field zones while maintaining safety distances between vehicles. Once in operation, the system dynamically verifies and adjusts travel plans, taking corrective actions in real-time to ensure the predetermined safety distances are maintained. This includes modifications to flight paths, changes in speed, and adaptations to overcome unexpected obstacles or weather conditions. Intermex, a leading omnichannel money transfer service provider, is thrilled to announce its partnership with PickTrace, a labor management platform purpose built for large scale farming operations, aimed at facilitating money transfers for workers in U.S. Joel Zemer, CEO at PickTrace, shared “Over the past 10 years, PickTrace has been committed to digitizing the labor management practices across the US specialty crop sector, where today PickTrace serves hundreds of agriculture employers. With the introduction of our mobile remittance platform, PickTrace is now creating value for the hundreds of thousands of agriculture employees that historically have had limited financial service offerings available to them. We are thrilled about the impact this new partnership with Intermex will enable for the US agriculture workforce, supplying an easy and cost effective solution to send money back to their home country.” As of March 1, 2024, users are now able to conveniently send money via the PickTrace mobile app. This service has been seamlessly integrated into PickTrace’s existing application, requiring no additional enrollment or activation process for customers. Provision Analytics has announced the appointment of former IFPA food safety chief, Dr. Jennifer McEntire, as the company’s Strategic Advisor. The recipient of the 2020 NSF International Food Safety Leadership Award and the 2023 Harold Barnum Industry Award, Dr. McEntire has long been an advocate for technology-enabled solutions in food safety. With her distinguished past in the food safety industry, Dr. McEntire will bring her considerable experience to bear in this new role counseling Provision’s product development to ensure that the software meets the most pressing needs for compliance and risk management. In addition to her role as Advisor, Dr. McEntire will be leading a new roundtable of food safety’s most renowned experts in tandem with Provision; the other members of this group will be announced in the very near future. VineView is excited to have recently launched our new Smart Sampling Plan tools! Our new Sampling Plan Creator allows you to create sampling plans that pinpoint sampling locations that give an accurate representation of field conditions. The new Mobile Collector app allows you to collect and track your samples with ease. This year only, VineView Smart Sampling will be available free of charge to all customers who have placed an order with VineView in 2024, regardless of the product purchased. Please contact info@vineview.com for more information.
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