PlantBeat: Monitor Plant Growth Real-Time

Phytech intro'd its PlantBeat technology at InfoAg 2014.

Phytech intro’d its PlantBeat technology at InfoAg 2014.

The struggle between Israeli and Hamas forces in the Middle East has ramped up considerably in recent months. Thankfully that state of affairs didn’t dissuade Israeli agriculture tech firm Phytech from making the trek to InfoAg in July, where the Kibbutz Yad Mordecai-based outfit debuted its intriguing PlantBeat technology to the domestic precision ag crowd.

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Already in place across thousands of acres in its native Israel, as well as with Paramount Farms, California’s largest grower of almonds and pistachios, as part of a joint R&D program with University of California-Davis researchers, PlantBeat is primed for a full U.S. launch this year in several specialty crop markets (cotton, tomatoes, apples, nuts, citrus, grapes, etc.) before making a planned jump to corn and soybeans by 2016, according to the company.

Go to CropLife.com for the full story.

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