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Empowering Farmers with Digital Insights
Bayer’s digital farming tools – including the FieldView platform, built on more than 280 million subscribed acres – help connect field data, agronomic expertise, and product performance into actionable insight. These tools provide field-level data that farmers can use to adjust the timing and rate of input applications. Results depend on local conditions and how the tools are used.
A Smarter Toolbox
The right tools make all the difference. This is especially true in agriculture, where farmers must navigate an ever-evolving landscape of changing weather patterns, environmental conditions, consumer demands, regulatory requirements, and countless other factors. By helping farmers gain additional insights into what’s happening in their fields, we can enable a more efficient use of farm resources, farmer time, and inputs. That’s better for their operations and supports more efficient input use.
Digital Farming Platforms
Digital farming applications like FieldView™ enable farmers to draw insights about their operations by combining data from their farms with our leading data science, supported and visualized by satellite imagery. From weather to in-season field health to a live look at combines harvesting crops in the field, this digital platform provides a detailed view of field conditions to help farmers decide how to use their resources.
With these insights, they can make data-driven decisions on when to plow, when to plant, when to apply crop protection and inpus, when to harvest, and what are the right amounts given their unique fields. In addition to giving individual field areas what they need to thrive, this approach to prescriptive agriculture also helps farmers tailor input rates to field conditions, which may reduce input use and costs depending on the farm and season.
Smart Drones
Aerial drones are taking agriculture to new heights by providing farmers with valuable new perspectives into their operations. Many of these drones are even equipped with special imaging technology that can provide vital information about plant health throughout the field. These multispectral cameras can reveal when plants are impacted by various degrees of crop stress – e.g. pests, disease or drought – before it’s visible to the naked eye. This insight can help farmers detect signs of crop stress earlier and plan a response.
Drones are also being used in parts of the world for precision application and planting. At Bayer, we are working with partners across the industry to find ways to diagnose and prescribe solutions - and drone-based technologies are among the most exciting and promising areas we are exploring.
In-Field Soil Sensors
Soil conditions such as moisture and nutrient levels influence crop growth. . This proprietary digital technology enables farmers to monitor detailed soil conditions such as moisture and nutrient levels—all in real time. Using geo-location, these in-field sensors enable farmers to apply water and other inputs more precisely to where they are needed, based on field-level conditions and farmer judgement.
Our Digital Solutions
Artificial intelligence, automation, digital tools, and the science of data won't eliminate the many complex tasks involved in a successful growing season; these approaches and tools instead enhance those tasks using innovation to support farmers' decisions on productivity and input use. Increasingly intricate data is providing insights that enable us to assess and improve our products better than ever by understanding even more about how they are used and how they perform. As such, we’re better able to breed seeds that are designed to thrive in specific regions, climates and soil types. And by providing farmers with these new datasets, we can create new tailored solutions that best support the decisions they make every day from planting to harvest.
To learn more about careers in Digital Farming and agricultural technology, please visit our careers page.