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The FBN app for mobile devices helps organise and message on-farm teams. Independent agronomic intelligence remains at its core, with cloud-based FBN Analytics enabling members to organise their farm data, analyse yields against a number of factors, access weather and soil temperature maps, calculate return on investment and benchmark with other members.

This social network founded in 2014 to enable US farmers to pool and analyse crop and other data to help inform on-farm decision-making, is now using its scale to also become an inputs purchasing and crop selling co-operative.įBN membership represents around 5000 farms across the US and Canada, accounting for 6.5 million hectares (16 million acres) of farmland, according to co-founder Charles Baron, and this is understood to have attracted investors to the tune of some $ 200 million (€ 171 million). Individual weeds are spotted and sprayed by the solar-powered autonomous herbicide applicator from ecoRobotix it’s due for commercial launch this year. With early financial support and advice from specialist venture capital funds, EarthSense hopes to sell an initial batch of robots to early adopters for $ 5000 each. Early vigour, plant height, corn ear height, leaf area index, biomass and disease detection and identification are also planned. It can carry sensors to collect data on traits such as plant health, physiology and stress response, and can autonomously measure under-canopy markers including stand-count, stem width, and stem angle using cameras.

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Photo: AugmentaĮstablished by 2 University of Illinois professors in the United States, EarthSense has produced a small robot for surveying trial plots to determine the phenotype characteristics of new crop varieties.Ĭo-founders Girish Chowdhary and Chinmay Soman say the TerraSentia robot, which weighs around 7kg (15lb) and fits between rows of corn and similar crops, is a significant labour-saving device for plant breeding programmes. The Augmenta tractor roof-mounted scanner surveys crops to control variable-rate applications from a fertiliser spreader or sprayer in real time.

George Varvarelis, co-founder and CEO, says cereal crop trials at the University of Thessaly in Greece have shown up to 12% increased yield, 15% increase in grain protein levels and a 13% saving in chemicals as a result of employing the technology to fine-tune inputs.

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Capturing 4K video data using hyperspectral computer vision, the company’s Isobus-compliant cab roof-mounted device translates the data through crop-calibrated software to control a fertiliser spreader or sprayer to apply variable rates where and when they are needed. Here’s a few to watch.Īll around the world, entrepreneurs and engineers, young companies and established businesses, are working on transformative precision farming technologies to change the face of future farming.ĭescribing itself as “an ag IoT and automation start-up” and with offices in Greece and Texas, Augmenta has attracted $ 600,000 (€ 512,500) of seed-funding from a venture capital technology investor to help commercialise a tractor-mounted crop scanner. Precision agriculture proves to be a fertile breeding ground for start-ups.

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