The main goal of every farmer is productive crop production. This includes achieving optimal yield, as well as quality and nutritious crops. Achieving this goal is an ongoing battle following weather conditions, detecting, and protecting against pests, and securing the availability of water, and soil quality.
What makes this battle even harder today is climate change. 2023 was officially claimed as the hottest year on record. Many countries experienced heatwaves or extreme weather hazards that caused health problems, power outages, wildfires, and crop failures.
Climate change is creating a „new normal“ and it is crucial for farmers to adapt and prepare for any possible threats that can cause yield losses. Faced with so many production risks, farmers and agricultural industries often seek optimal practices for risk management.
Luckily, today there are various tools for proper risk management in agricultural production, and the development of digital agriculture provided technologies such as farm management software, weather stations, different types of sensors, pest alarms, and satellite imagery.
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AGRIVI Farm Management Software: Powerful Farm Analytics for Timely and Smart Risk Management
AGRIVI Farm Management Software supports farmers to make fact-based decisions based on real-time insights into weather conditions, pest risk, and crop health by field. It is equipped with powerful farm analytics that helps farmers gain deep insights into best-performing fields, varieties, and practices, as well as identify inefficiencies, make the right decisions to optimize costs, and improve crop yields and profitability.
Let’s take a view over some key features that enable AGRIVI customers to gain real-time insights from the field and prevent yield losses.
Real-Time Insights to Accurate Weather Conditions
Due to climate change, scientists predict an increasingly intense occurrence of dangerous phenomena, which already cause from 8-20% of losses in the yield of cultivated plants. Hence, accurate and precise weather forecasts are crucial in the planning of field activities.
Within AGRIVI FMS farm managers get accurate predictions and information about the weather forecast for each field. This enables farmers to get information about potential weather situations such as rain, hailstorms, strong wind, etc., and prepare their crops on time. Meaning, to proactively take measures that will help them protect their crops.
Also, by tracking accurate weather, farmers can plan their activities more precisely and minimize additional field trips or the quantity of used products.
Moreover, AGRIVI enables plug-and-play connectivity with your weather stations for real-time and precise agricultural weather data monitoring.
AGRIVI’s Pest Alarm System for Precision Pest Management
Pest and disease occurrence is one of the main causes of lower yield. Damage can be huge, depending on the size of the surface, the scope of infection, and weather conditions. Generally, it’s estimated that various pests (insects, weeds, nematodes, diseases, wild game, field animals) cause each year crop yield loss from 20-40%.
Weather conditions in particular have an important role in pest and disease occurrence. Lower or higher temperatures, combined with rain and high moisture are the trigger for the occurrence of many pests.
AGRIVI’s intelligent pest alarms integrated into the AGRIVI FMS help farmers react on time and perform protective measures to save their crops.
How do these alarms work? Based on the precise location of fields, AGRIVI identifies possible pest occurrences for over 200+ crops, with built-in alarms triggered 7 days in advance, alongside custom weather alarms suited to farmers’ needs.
Moreover, AGRIVI’s built-in database of pests, protection products, and active substances helps farmers and agriculture supply-chain providers coordinate timely scouting and crop protection activities, facilitating consistently high levels of agricultural production.
Vegetation Indices: Managing Risks by Using Satellite Imagery
Using satellite imagery can help farmers collect valuable information from different types of vegetation indices that analyze overall crop health and biomass. More precisely, the common thing to all vegetation indices is that they all analyze crop conditions by using satellite maps instead of going directly into the field.
Farmers who use satellite imagery in their crop management can detect early signs of disorders in crop growth. Monitoring the condition of plants during vegetation provides the possibility of on-time reaction in case of infection, lack of nutrients, or any type of damage.
AGRIVI’s powerful Field Operations module provides access to several data layers delivering directly actionable insights from the weather forecast, vegetation indices, and scouting observations, allowing farmers to make data-driven decisions and optimize their resources timely.
Specifically, the vegetation indices stack has 9 indices based on remote sensing from satellite imagery, providing farmers with an up-to-date, real-time view of their crop health. Thus, farmers and agronomists can remotely screen potential issues, from nutrient deficiency to pest infestation, potential diseases, and more. This directly helps farmers to save time and make the optimal decision to improve crop health and yields.
Central Farm Management Platform with Tangible Results
Combining satellite imagery, weather datasets, and intelligent pest alarms, AGRIVI Farm Management Software is a comprehensive solution that supports farmers and managers alike to make important judgment calls when it matters most. Based on several data parameters within AGRIVI FMS, farmers can make timely decisions to protect their crops and maximize yields:
- increase the quality and volume of crop yields by tracking weather conditions;
- increase profits through better data analysis;
- optimize planting schedules for maximum yield;
- create more efficient pest control strategies; and much more.
Our clients recorded a 13% average yield increase, resulting in up to 15% profitability increase and up to 10% in cost optimization. Moreover, the first concrete benefits and results can be experienced already in the 1st season, and a full range of benefits in a maximum of 2 seasons.
Contact us today to find the best solution for your farm needs.
