Get set to spray without delay: Contour Update 2.35

Get set to spray without delay: Contour Update 2.35

Today’s Contour release makes it simpler to implement your precision plans in each field. Here’s how: variable rate application files for image-based plans can now be downloaded in manufacturer specific formats, helping you get your plans into the cab easily with no need for manual file conversions or having to adjust the settings. For ISOXML…

Using ‘Big Data’ to improve Phosphate fertiliser applications

Using ‘Big Data’ to improve Phosphate fertiliser applications

Background Origin Digital’s Contour platform is used on thousands of farms in the UK. The platform enables farmers, agronomists and precision farming companies to manage complex farm datasets. It converts anonymous big data into actionable information, ensuring farms are efficient and maximising gross margins.

Farm network launched to prove and improve digital agronomy technologies

Farm network launched to prove and improve digital agronomy technologies

A pioneering UK network of Digital Technology Farms has been established this season to prove the value of current digital agronomy and data-based information systems, demonstrate their most profitable use, and provide the broadest base for future improvements. The farmer-led initiative involves nine Agrii growers and their agronomists across the country already active in using…

Variable rate nutrition from space

Variable rate nutrition from space

Nitrogen – the mobile nutrient Nutrient recommendations from soil analysis focus on phosphate, potash and magnesium, which are stable nutrients held by the soil and available for crop uptake over time. In our previous blog we highlighted the value of intelligent nutrient management and our work at Origin Digital, taking soil analysis results from multiple countries using…

The Value of Intelligent Nutrient Management

The Value of Intelligent Nutrient Management

Origin Digital farmers span three continents and thirteen countries. Each country has its own variety of soil types and climatic conditions, based on geography and location. Add to this geological and geographical mix a wide variety of crops, cropping systems, management, fertilisers, best practice guidelines, legislation and local methods for analysing soils, and the challenge…