The new digital tool helps to improve the biological performance of crop protection products in grain, maize, rapeseed, beet and potatoes. A good 80 common nozzles are stored for the recommendations. We checked the app for you.
The new “Cropwise Spray Assist” app is available for setting up your own field sprayer correctly. Syngenta is thus expanding its range of digital decision-making aids for crop protection.
Current weather data as the basis for the spray assistant
The digital help takes hourly weather data into account and thus determines the optimal treatment date. The forecast for spray weather contains data from around 500 weather stations. There are also tips on nozzle selection to avoid drift .
For 24 hours a day, for example, the digital help shows the temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, rain probability, air pressure, wind speed or wind gusts per location and gives recommendations for application. A distinction is made between the following spraying conditions:
- green: optimal conditions,
- yellow: application possible and
- red: not recommended.
Tips and recommendations for over 80 nozzles in crop protection
When setting up the field sprayer, it is often a challenge to choose the optimal setting for depending on the crop, purpose and weather
- Nozzle, pressure and droplet size as well
- Water consumption and driving speed.
The new app gives recommendations for grain, rapeseed, maize, sugar beet and potatoes. It shows how the spray nozzle and spray pressure, water consumption and driving speed should be optimally selected. This improves the biological performance for chemical preparations; the application becomes more targeted.
There are currently over 80 nozzles used in Germany stored in the system. You can save your own spray plans for the five cultures mentioned in the app . The aim and purpose as well as the time of spraying are queried so that the app knows which plant protection products are to be used.
The digital help then provides recommendations for the settings for the following criteria:
- Speed in km / h,
- Pressure in bar,
- Water consumption in l / ha,
- Drift reduction, calculated in percent,
- Droplet size or spectrum.
Help with the regulations: reduce drift and observe requirements
The app is useful because it is becoming more and more difficult to keep track of the plethora of legal requirements for chemical products. The help on the smartphone was also developed for this.
It bundles important information on wind and weather and provides the user with an hourly recommendation on how to optimally adjust his sprayer. The app offers an important function for active ingredients with specific application requirements.
In order to reduce drift and avoid drifting, the spray assistant classifies which nozzle is suitable in this or that case and recommends the correct settings. In this way, the regulations and requirements should be reliably complied with.
Product-independent and free of charge, but to be paid for with user data
The use of the digital help is formally free of charge, but of course users have to pay when they enter their data, for example on spray plans or technical equipment. This includes, for example, the field sprayer used
- Name of the field sprayer.
- Tank size in liters,
- Boom width in meters,
- Nozzle spacing 25 to 50 cm.
The app is available for iOS and Android devices and, according to the provider, works independently of the product, manufacturer and provider. The app can be obtained from the ‘Cropwise’ platform . This is a cross-platform geo-web and mobile phone application with current location reference via the geographic position system GPS. It provides daily and five-day weather days, 16-day harvest forecasts and early warning messages to farmers.
With material from AgE, Syngenta
