John Deere Reveals Precision Agriculture Partnership with Solorrow

By AgriLand

John Deere has announced a new precision agriculture partnership with the German agri-tech start-up Solorrow through the launch of a new app, reports AgriLand.

The new site-specific app developed by Solorrow will allow farmers to “create variable rate application maps for fertilizing and other field operations and share them with the John Deere Operations Center,” according to John Deere.

From there, maps can be sent wirelessly to machines in the field to enable more precise applications, so that fertilizer and crop protection chemicals can be used more effectively and the environment protected in a sustainable way, the agricultural machinery giant claims, adding:

“Software and app developments are becoming increasingly important in precision farming,” reports Deere. “Solorrow offers an affordable and very easy solution, which allows users to quickly identify fields and their boundaries in a map view on their tablet or smartphone.”