What is Digital Farming?
Everything in our world is now being affected by technology in one way or another, and farming is no exception. From IoT to drones, technology is changing the way farmers and consumers interact with the food they grow and eat, but what is digital farming and how does it help farmers answer the call of increasing demand for food?
Digital farming is using precision location methods and decision quality agronomic information to correct cultivation issues on a farm. Digital farming provides operational systems which can scale to millions of acres, deploy across multiple crops, and provides an end-to-end solution to small growers and large growers alike.
Growers who use digital farming have the opportunity to individually monitor each productive asset and every unit within that asset. This allows for each unit to be precisely identified, analyzed, and cultivated to produce a predicted outcome. By the growers treating their crops as individual assets they can apply advanced data, analytic algorithms, and real-time reporting to increase their yields and ultimately profits.
Dropcopter entered the digital farming world in 2014 with the idea of using digital farming and drones to supplement bee pollination. In 2020 Dropcopter and its partners are now able to use digital farming to identify individual assets in a field or entire sections that are difficult to pollinate with bees or are lower producing sections of the field. Being able to surgically apply pollen to the areas that need it the most increases the growers yield and maximizes the return on the growers pollination dollar spend.
With these new technologies and new digital farming practices Dropcopter and companies like Dropcopter are able to combat what many scientists say are looming threats to our planet and our food supply chain:
Bee colony collapse
Climate change
Rising energy costs
Water shortages
Diseases
It’s hard to predict the future but based on these new digital farming trends, growers of all sizes will be embracing the new technologies to combat environmental issues and to supply food for our ever growing population.