Connectivity
January 22, 2019
I recently attended the PrecisionAg VISION Conference in Seattle. The event offers attendees a clear look at the changes that are likely to transform their businesses in the next 3-5 years. About 200 people attended the conference, including many from the...
Connectivity
October 24, 2018
Some insights about the Brazilian Conference on Precision Agriculture 2018 (ConBAP 2018) were provided in the recent article "ConBAP 2018 Highlights Precision Agriculture in Brazil." I have attended the conference in previous editions, but unfortunately I could not attend...
Connectivity
July 9, 2018
One of the pioneers in deep learning, Dr. Yoshua Bengio of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms presented “From Data to Decisions with Artificial Intelligence” at the 14th International Conference on Precision Agriculture in Montreal,...
Analytics
April 26, 2018
The five finalist teams for the 2018 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics during the award ceremony at the 2018 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics & Operations Research in Baltimore, MD.
Last week I attended the 2018...
Market Watch
February 20, 2018
Recently, we have seen important discussions about key aspects of precision agriculture. One of these articles, about the value in variable rate nutrition, explains how there is no easy recipe or universal method to do it successfully, even more...
Market Watch
December 4, 2017
The idea of using on-farm trials to gather data about the performance of any crop input has been in place even before the advent of modern science. Farmers tend to test anything new on small portions of their fields...
Market Watch
October 16, 2017
As I mentioned in my last article, the IPNI Brazil Symposium on Precision Agriculture was held in early October in Goiânia, Goiás, in central western Brazil. Attendees were mainly service providers, crop consultants, soil analysis laboratories, fertilizer companies, agricultural...
Digital Farming
October 2, 2017
Last week I attended the fourth South American Congress of Precision Agriculture and Precision Machinery (IV APSUL America 2017). The event was held in Não-Me-Toque, a small city in Rio Grande do Sul, which is Brazil's southernmost state. The...
Market Watch
July 24, 2017
Region, in red, infested with resistant weeds in Brazil (Embrapa, 2015).
The occurrence of weeds in agricultural fields of grain and fiber production has caused losses to farmers for a long time. With the introduction of...
Imagery
June 20, 2017
From left: Satellite imagery one week before application, as applied rate, and satellite imagery one month after application of plant growth regulator in cotton fields in Mato Grosso, Midwest Brazil.
A cotton crop presents some important...
Market Watch
May 22, 2017
Typical spatial distribution of nematodes in cotton characterized by the presence of circular and oval-shaped infected spots.
As promised in my first article, this month I am writing about some technical aspects related to the use...
Market Watch
April 19, 2017
Large flat areas cultivated with soybean, corn and cotton in Mato Grosso, Midwest Brazil.
Editor's note: Rodrigo Trevisan is Coordinator of Precision Agriculture at Terra Santa Agro in Brazil, where he is responsible for the development of projects...