Rodrigo Trevisan
Rodrigo Trevisan is co-founder and the head of research and development of technological solutions for agribusiness at Smart Agri. He also works as a consultant on agricultural technologies, including the validation of new solutions, knowledge diffusion and people training. He has been working with precision agriculture since his baccalaureate degree in Agronomy, also having a master's degree in biosystems engineering from ESALQ - USP. He has experience in the areas of agricultural planning, precision agriculture, on-farm trials, remote sensing, geographic information systems, data analysis and artificial intelligence. He has participated in several events as a speaker and organizer and is a founding member of the Brazilian Association of Precision Agriculture.
Connectivity October 24, 2018
ConBAP 2018: From Data Collection to Decision Making
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
Highlights from the 14th International Conference on Precision Agriculture
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
Data-Driven Strategies and Machine Learning Shaping the Future of Agriculture
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
Why Are Service Providers Slow to Adopt Crop Sensors for Nitrogen Management?
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
On-Farm Trials in Brazil: The Way to Improve Agronomic Knowledge
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
IPNI Brazil: Precision Agriculture to Improve Nutrient Use Efficiency
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
Future of Digital Agriculture Arrives at South American Precision Ag Event
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
Using Precision Agriculture to Control Herbicide-Resistant Weeds in Brazil
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
Cotton Growth Management with Precision Agriculture
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
Using Precision Agriculture to Manage Nematodes in Brazil
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
Precision Ag Technology Making a Difference in Brazil
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...
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