Precision farming data analytics company Ceres Imaging is making its Field Disease Risk product available to growers as part of Evergreen’s Agtrinsic platform. The collaborative offering follows a successful pilot trial in 2021 of Ceres’ AI-powered analytics on 100,000 acres of farmland across the US State of Illinois. The two companies have collaborated on product development for over five years.

Evergreen FS is an agronomics and farming AI specialist, and the Agtrinsice platform combines data science and AI to allow farmers to make in-season decisions on crop health and how best to respond.

The new combined offering from the two companies will join high-level analysis of regional risk utilising the Agtrinsic platform, and field-level analysis using Ceres technology.

In a typical scenario, Agtrinsic monitors for regional disease risk through its network. When Agtrinsic flags a region as high risk for disease pressure through AI technology, it triggers a field level analysis by Ceres Imaging. Ceres Imaging combines satellite data and its patented algorithms to assess disease risk at a farm and field level as part of its Field Disease Risk solution. Farms are then delivered a fungicide recommendation in the Agtrinsic app.  The recommendation includes: which pathogens are of greatest concern; a low, medium or high score based on field level disease risk; and a flat or variable rate fungicide application recommendation for the best return on investment.

The disease risk solution will be available for dry land soybean and corn farmers in the Midwest US.  For growers in high disease risk regions, the solution helps with fungicide timing and provides flat or variable rate application recommendations.  For growers where fungicide is applied more selectively, the solution provides guidance on spray / no spray decisions, as well as timing and application rates.

“We were extremely pleased with the accuracy of the solution from last season’s trials and are confident this will be an easy to use tool for our customers to save money and make better decisions with their fungicide applications,” said Matt Free at Evergreen FS.

“While other providers show where disease has already impacted a crop, this is the first proactive solution that gets ahead of disease risks before it impacts yield. We are honored that Evergreen FS is putting its trusted name behind this collaborative solution,” said Ceres Imaging CEO Ashwin Madgavkar.

“Providing timely data that helps growers save money and improve yields is a key element of our Farmer of the Future vision.  We believe this solution is a game changer for the fungicide market and we are excited about it’s expansion,” said John Tuttle at Evergreen FS.