aerialPlot
aerialPLOT joined WGCIT at the beginning of March, and immediately kicked off its membership by hosting a two-day training session with a key multi- national client. aerialPLOT is a research company that integrates aerial sensors with other data sources to monitor real-time crop dynamics. In addition to operations covering row crops throughout the Midwest, aerialPLOT is expanding its California branch with the recent hire of digital agronomist David Fernandez. The company is supporting grower-scale analytical R&D trials in the Central Valley and Salinas on such crops as almonds, pistachios, tomatoes and lettuce. The company is currently working in 25 states on everything from new cultivars and varieties to emerging biological products in many crop systems. Its goal is to make agricultural research more efficient through better data and reliable technology. For more information, reach out to California lead Gary Nijak Jr. at gary@ aerialplot.com.
AgNote Spray applications are a significant part of growing a crop and producing an outstanding yield. That is why farmers need to have a good visibility of what, when and at what cost spray products were applied. AgNote provides users with a simple form to enter, edit or copy spray applications for each field— and it just got even easier. Now farmers can simply forward the Product Use Recommendation to AgNote and AgNote will record that. Of course, it is not all magic, there are a few prerequisites: 1) AgNote will read emails only from currently active users. 2) Farms in the account need to have a Permit Number. Permit Number is how AgNote will find the farm fields to which the spray Product Use Recommendation belongs. 3) Field names on Product Use Recommendation need to closely match field names in AgNote. 4) Spray Product Recommendation must be generated by Agrian.
Agtools
Agtools was always developed under the premises of supply chain efficiencies. Few understood the concept before Covid-19 and how the market behavior impacts the ag and food industry starting from research to consumer. Agtools was invited to discuss the topic in venues, such as Agtech Innovation Summit at University of Illinois Champaign and United States Hispanic Chambers of Commerce in Washington D.C., to discuss how Hispanics are part of the solution. Recently, several customers utilized Agtools to visualize production data from Mexico and the Americas to Russia to understand how will it impact the U.S. market. Boost Biomes delivers resilient microbial solutions that offer more robust performance, last longer and prevent the spread of pathogens. Based on a proprietary technology to understand and leverage the interactions between soil microbes, Boost develops high performance microbiome products sourced from the native biodiversity of relevant natural environments. The company’s first product is a biofungicide that prevents diseases like powdery mildew, downy mildew and botrytis in grapes, and is expected to come to market late in 2022. To learn about grower trials for the 2022 season, contact trials@boostbiomes.com. For more information, or if your crops suffer from Pierce’s Disease or Leaf Scorch in almonds, contact info@boostbiomes.com. In 2021, 90 Burros supported table grape crews, autonomously moving fruit from field to pack tables, six days a week. Instead of seeing farmworkers walk several miles a day with a 200 lb. wheelbarrow full of grapes in the heat, Burro allows workers to remain in the field, under shade of canopy, and to pick and pack with a continuous flow of fruit out of the field. Through this use, growers saw 15 to 48 percent gains per Burro, enabling a single season ROI. Burro is a plug-and-play autonomous people-scale robot available to growers that increases productivity in conventional production environments. Burros feature a novel and patent- pending approach called Pop Up Autonomy, which enables the harvesting aid to work immediately out of the box by enabling everyone in a working environment to become an operator. From May until December, Burros run primarily in table grapes and blueberries.
Boost Biomes
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