When it comes to adoption of new technologies and utilizing advanced monitoring solutions, farming has come a long way in the last years. Real-time, actionable data and decision support based on the actual measurements from the field mean that field operations are easily optimized, reducing the unnecessary expenses, lowering the impact on the environment and producing higher quality yield.
In its core, precision agriculture means basing most of the farming management systems on modern technologies. Making decisions based on intuition and sometimes, sheer luck, is replaced with making decisions based on actual, real-time, data. Its main goal is to reduce farmers’ expenses while at the same time helping them produce and earn more and lower the impact on the environment.
Winter seems like the season when farmers can finally have some rest. The truth is, there are plenty of things to do in the months when fields are waiting for the new crops.
METOS is not the only remote field monitoring solution, but we dare say that it is the solution you’ve been looking for.
It is a unique combination of measuring equipment, integrated in the cloud, to offer top quality services and decision support for disease modelling, weather forecasting, plant protection, irrigation management, asset tracking and all essential farm operations. In house scientists and tech experts work on the development of advanced solutions, to bring the highest value to the final user – the grower.
With more countries shutting down and implementing additional travel restrictions, remote monitoring systems, especially for fields, became an urgent solution. The world is changing very quickly. Gottfried Pessl, President and Founder of Pessl Instruments GmbH, shares how Pessl Instruments equipment can help monitor the field while staying in the quarantine most of the time. Read More