Digital Farms
Farming is changing with new environmental schemes, regulations, smart technology… but RHIZA is ready. All Agrii iFarms and Technology Centres include digital and precision trials in order to establish integrity in the solutions and advice used by RHIZA. In addition to this, we work with RHIZA customers to ground-truth our tools, which gives us the ability to learn from every season and farming situation.
iFarm sites
- Dunecht
- Kinross
- Eyemouth
- Holderness
- Ludlow
- Brackley
- South Wales (Net Zero iFarm)
- Kent
- South West
Digital Technology Farm (DTF) sites
- Montrose (Brotherton Farms)
- Lincolnshire (Revesby Estate)
- Essex (Throws Farm)
- Kent (Hayle Farm)
Technology Centres
- Mid Lincs
- Stow Longa
- Throws Farm
- AgriiFocus
WHAT ARE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY FARMS?
The Digital Technology Farm (DTF) trials are bringing the “field of the future” to our agronomists and growers today. We believe that data from various innovative technologies can guide crop management decisions across a range of cropping systems all year round.
With our Digital Technology Farms, we have the opportunity to develop, trial and demonstrate technologies at farm scale to determine their true benefits in a commercial setting and in comparison, with ‘field of today’ practices. The project will bring new and innovative technologies that are nearing commercialisation and/or at a state of readiness for on farm adoption across the UK.
THE CHALLENGE AHEAD FOR UK FARMING
Today, growers face many significant economic, social and environmental challenges. From a requirement to produce food more sustainably, with fewer crop protection options available, more frequent extreme weather events and changes to the sustainable farming incentives. Amongst these challenges, farmers are often presented with a myriad of innovative technologies or digital applications that promise to reduce costs, improve yields and enhance overall sustainability.
Connected digital technologies can provide the opportunity for growers to increase productivity, which is essential to maintaining a viable farming operation in today’s challenging environment. Yet, without rigorous on farm testing or validation they can often lack the durability, accuracy or value required to perform in real farming environments at scale. This is where Agrii’s DTF testing infrastructure comes in. Providing essential cost benefit analysis and integrity to new and disruptive technologies, ensuring growers adopt only the most effective technology.
“The Digital Technology Farms are a testing ground to enable us to monitor the performance of a range of technologies in enhancing grower’s abilities to improve productivity, drive better sustainability and increase their profitability in food production.
The marketplace is flooded with technology and digital applications and its our job to guide our growers to those that have been tried and tested in a farming environment.”
“The Digital Technology Farm (DTF) concept is significantly advancing our understanding of how new and innovative technologies can be applied across a range of farming systems. Agrii’s DTF network facilitates this by enabling on-farm testing and validation, a crucial step in developing and proving the value case of technology on farm. Ultimately the DTF network is paving the way for greater integration and commercial adoption of technologies within UK agricultural and horticultural industries.”
“Innovation is also a key theme for the RHIZA development team. Working closely with R&D and trialling new technologies on our DTF sites, as well as collaborating with Green Horizons, fruit and speciality crop teams, we are actively investigating other areas in which new Agtech innovations can bring faster and more informative insights to help drive management decisions and sustainability. A few areas on which we are focusing include supporting growers and advisors with environmental decisions, field and farm benchmarking, 3rd party integrations and predictive modelling using remote sensing. As with all new technologies, we need to have a clear understanding of the value these tools create for our customers.“
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