Growers spend an average of 240 hours per acre managing and monitoring their irrigation systems. This manual process leads to costly crop management, inconsistent yields, or even crop loss.
“For the past three years, Vineland has worked in close collaboration with LetsGrow.com to develop a machine learning algorithm to complement the LetsGrow.com software suite to directly address this challenge,” says Hussam Haroun, Director of Automation, Vineland. “Combined with greenhouse environmental data, this new software innovation is able to learn the grower irrigation strategy and provide decisions to create irrigation consistency, as well as optimize water usage and consumption. This can directly help growers by reducing crop losses and demands for labor and highly refine their watering needs.”
“Data-driven decision making is imperative for growers to optimize their resources and make their operations more sustainable in an increasingly competitive market. Our collaboration with Vineland allows for an important expansion in our platform technology to further collect, refine and analyze water usage data that is crop-specific,” says Ton van Dijk, Global Head of Sales and Operations, LetsGrow.com. “This data is collected in real-time and has implications for long-term growing strategies. Overall, we’re empowering growers by leveraging data that can result in a more profitable business strategy.”
This international collaboration serves to advance Vineland’s mandate to facilitate cooperation and create partnerships that expand innovation and commercialization in horticulture both in Canada and abroad.
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Vineland Research
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LetsGrow.com
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