BASF RevX Fields Provide Growers with Local, On-Farm Fungicide Data
Following the EPA registration of its newest fungicides – Veltyma fungicide in corn and Revytek fungicide in soybeans – BASF worked with more than 1,200 growers across the country as part of the RevX Fields program. The program allowed growers to experience the newest BASF Plant Health fungicide offerings in their own backyards. RevX Fields is designed to provide local, relevant and transparent yield results.
“We’ve found there are often multiple barriers growers face when deciding to use fungicides,” said Dr. Josh Miller, BASF Technical Marketing Manager. “BASF created the RevX Fields program to be a true hands-on experience with Veltyma and Revytek fungicides. It was important for us to provide useful data for growers in the program, but it was also important to provide access for growers outside of the program, to see benefits in their own backyards.”
The RevX Fields program took place during the 2019 growing season following the EPA registration of Veltyma and Revytek fungicides. The program allowed for on-farm data to be gathered so growers could better make informed fungicide decisions. In addition, all RevX Fields were flown using drones by Aker Technology Inc., an independent crop diagnostics and analytics company, to supply growers with normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) imagery and other environmental indicators of their fields near application and approximately seven weeks following application.
“What sets our crop diagnostics service apart, making it helpful to these growers, is that we collected data from each field using drones and specialized sensors, not satellite,” said Orlando Saez, CEO and Co-Founder, Aker Technology Inc. “This allowed timely and real in-field data to supplement BASF’s crop models to help growers in the RevX Fields program understand how these products were working and how they could make proactive updates to their plans in-season.”
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The information gathered from this large-scale program also provided growers who did not participate in the program with access to data from fields in their area at RevXFields.com. All results were compiled and updated weekly in an interactive map that anyone can access from the website. Now, growers can explore local RevX Fields results gathered from their peers and are able to learn from those participants’ experiences.
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