A new partnership between Syngenta and Planet Labs PBC will allow farmers around the world to have comprehensive access to near-daily satellite imagery of their fields.
The multi-year expansion of their strategic partnership enables farmers to remotely monitor crop health, detect pest infestations, and identify disease outbreaks. The high-resolution, commercially available satellite imagery is delivered to farmers globally as part of Syngenta’s Cropwise digital agriculture platform.
Satellite imagery today plays an essential role in precision agriculture, allowing farmers to monitor plant growth across large areas, identify signs of stress earlier and manage their crops to deliver better yields and outcomes.
The collaboration will expand the current integration of Planet’s advanced satellite imagery into Syngenta’s Cropwise platform, giving farmers a further powerful tool in their precision agriculture arsenal.
The Cropwise digital platform includes a variety of tools to help farmers, from imagery and commodity applications, to financial and sustainability programs. At Commodity Classic last week, Liz Hunt, Head of North America Sustainability for Syngenta, talked about the sustainability piece.
“What we’ve tried to do is just simplify sustainability,” said Hunt. “So we actually have an app that’s available for farmers to download for free and you go through a self-assessment on sustainability for your operations. And it shows you kind of how you are scoring against six sustainable outcomes gives you some ideas…It’s nonprescriptive, but it gets you thinking about, hey, I’m already doing a lot of these things on my farm.”
