FieldView Getting Into the Zone on Crop Protection

Climate Corporation argues that every spray droplet should land where it’s going to do the farmer the most good, and it says new features of its Climate FieldView management system are letting producers do exactly that, writes Alexis Stockford at Manitoba Co-operator.

The company has launched a new tool within the web-based field management system; one that allows the producer to create customized variable-rate prescription maps for fungicides, herbicides and insecticides. Prescriptions can then be uploaded to the sprayer via USB.

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“Regardless of product, the farmer can create special management zones within each field and assign product rates to each region, while following label directions,” the company said in a release earlier this summer.

Why it matters: Climate FieldView is among the digital agriculture products trying to eke out more efficiency from spray passes, and that includes identifying the parts of the field where it doesn’t pay to apply.

Continue reading at Manitoba Co-operator.

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