Gran Bretaña: British potato grower makes huge efficiencies with mobile app
An organic vegetable farmer from Shropshire has made efficiency savings of more than 25% while almost doubling the land he manages for potatoes thanks to a new app.
As FarmingUK reports, Nick Taylor, who farms at Home Farm, has been instrumental in developing Crop4Sight, and is now using the platform to realise ‘massive efficiencies’ in his business.
He is growing 40 hectares of salad potatoes and 130ha of main crop potatoes this year which represents a significant step up in crop size compared to previous years.
But by adopting the app into the day-to-day running of the business, he has reduced the management time invested in producing the crops by more than a quarter, without compromising on the quality demanded by contracts with retailers.
Crop4Sight utilises thousands of data points to accurately predict the size fractions of potato crops from first emergence, enabling growers to better plan crop inputs, labour, burndown, irrigation, and storage.
Source: FarmingUK. Read the full story here
Photo: Nick Taylor has reduced the management time invested in producing his crops by more than a quarter | FarmingUK
Fuente: https://www.potatonewstoday.com/2021/10/20/british-potato-grower-makes-huge-efficiencies-with-mobile-app/
