June 16, 2022 / PRNewswire / - CropX, a global leader in digital farm management, is expanding its system to incorporate an innovative disease management capability that could lead to reduced chemical usage while protecting crop yields. The CropX agricultural management system monitors key fungal diseases across more than 320 crop and disease combinations and provides advice on when to spray. This new capability integrates 20 years of agronomic research and expertise from the Netherlands-based Dacom Farm Intelligence, which CropX acquired in 2021.
CropX Disease Management monitors the threat of fungal diseases and provides advice on the best and worst times to spray. It is the latest addition to the growing capabilities of the CropX agricultural management system.
The disease management capability analyzes data from a full range of sources above and below ground to monitor and alert to conditions that lead to disease outbreaks. It then provides insights on the timing of fungicidal applications. Users can see a forecast of specific fungal stressors and a visualization of the best and worst times of day in the coming week for crop protection applications.
By timing the application at the right moment, farmers can ensure they protect their crops while limiting the use of chemicals to what is absolutely necessary. Customers can save 2-3 fungicide sprays per season or more, resulting in significant savings and a typical return on investment (ROI) of $30 per acre.
Disease management is the latest addition to CropX's growing portfolio of agronomic solutions. The CropX agricultural management system integrates both proprietary software and hardware on a single dashboard accessible via mobile and desktop. This enables customers to monitor soil and crop health, manage their irrigation, fertilization, and dairy manure applications, and now protect against fungal diseases.
CropX CEO Tomer Tzach says, "CropX continues to leverage the roll-up strategy to accelerate agricultural management technologies that offer immense value to farmers. By integrating strategic technology acquisitions, CropX continues to build the most comprehensive agricultural management system to optimize agronomic activities on the farm, and there is more to come."
Currently in use by thousands of customers in Europe, disease management will soon be available to all CropX customers in over 50 countries worldwide.
CropX is one of the fastest-growing providers of agricultural management solutions worldwide, deployed in over 50 countries and on all cultivable continents. The CropX platform synthesizes data from the ground and the air to provide advanced soil and crop intelligence and a range of digital decision-making and planning tools, all on a user-friendly app that can track multiple farms and fields. CropX is backed by the world's leading agribusinesses and venture capitalists, recognizing that CropX's precision ag technologies are setting new standards for best practices in environmental sustainability and increased farm productivity. Learn more at www.cropx.com.
