Yara ImageIT
Yara ImageIT is a smartphone app designed to measure nitrogen uptake in a crop and generate a nitrogen recommendation based on photographs of the crop. Besides showing the user how much nitrogen to apply to obtain optimal yield and crop quality, ImageIT provides quality assured fertiliser recommendations with Yara-preferred product and contact information of the closest Yara office.
The app turns a farmer’s smartphone camera into a high-tech crop nutrient tester. ImageIT calculates nitrogen uptake based on leaf cover, leaf green colour and estimated fraction of brown leaves. The technology behind the application is a comprehensive image analysis that classifies leaf pixels, filters noisy areas and counts leaf pixels.
Despite being an advanced agricultural tool, ImageIT is user-friendly and flexible in terms of technical requirements. The app is largely insensitive to camera type and works with low resolution images with a file size as small as 50 to 200kB. In poor signal areas, ImageIT can store images offline to enable photo capture with no network access, and send the photographs for interpretation when the smartphone reaches a wifi or 3G zone.
Mix My Sprayer
Mix My Sprayer was created to aid with quick, accurate calculations of product mixes to be applied with spraying equipment. Users can create custom lists of favourite products by category.
Simply add or select a product, insert values in each input box, and the app automatically calculates the amount of product to include in the user-defined mix size. Units for each input can be customized by tapping the unit buttons. Products are saved with the user settings last used. This free mobile smartphone app is designed for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android devices.
GPS Fields Area Measure
This app allows the area of fields to be calculated using Google Maps to locate the field. On finding the field, marking pins can be dropped around the perimeter of the area to be measured. The app calculates the distance around the field and the area inside the selection. A neat feature is that the selected area on the map can be saved and sent to contractors or other farmers who can access the data. There are a lot of this type of app out there at the moment.
Herdwatch
With Herdwatch, you can register calves and record your remedies, anytime, anywhere. The information recorded is fully compliant with EU legislation and Bord Bia quality schemes. With the latest updates, management of the full breeding cycle is available, from heat checks to inseminations/serves as well as pregnancy scan results. Serves and scan results are automatically sent to ICBF and will show in HerdPlus if you are registered with ICBF.
Herdwatch can be used offline and on multiple smartphones, tablets or computers and it is backed up to the cloud.
Cost is €99 (incl VAT) per year with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Michelin Pressure Calculator
Michelin’s free agricultural tyre pressure calculator app is now compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. It says that this will give even more farmers and contractors access to on-the-spot bespoke tyre pressure advice.
The Michelin Pressure Calculator app instantly works out the most appropriate tyre pressure settings for desired load and speed on any farm tractor in just three easy steps.
Firstly, the user must enter the tractor’s front and rear axle load and tool weight, and then select the size of Michelin tyres fitted to both the tractor’s axles from a simple dropdown menu. Finally, a quick snap with the device’s integrated camera allows the app to calculate the precise load distribution and the length of the overhang, measured from the wheels, to define the tractor’s optimum pressure recommendations.
Tractorpal
This app acts as an inventory record keeper for all your vehicles, including tractors. All the data on a particular vehicle can be entered, including the serial number, last service, purchase date, model year, purchase price and original miles/hours. Maintenance manager as part of the Tractorpal app records all oil changes and repair history for the vehicle. The information records can be emailed directly to any person in relation to work on the vehicle. This app may be useful for farmers with a number of vehicles in the fleet.
Irish Farmers Journal app
Get the latest agricultural news, commentary and technical farm content from the Irish Farmers Journal through its latest iPhone, iPad and Android app. The app is free to download, and all users can access up to 10 free Journal+ articles per month, from any section. Users can read unlimited articles marked FREE. Subscribers get full access to cover all sections of the app for €9.99 per month. If you have already registered with the Irish Farmers Journal, your username and password will allow you to log in to the app. The loyalty code found in the Irish Country Living section will give Irish Farmers Journal print readers unlimited access for the whole week to all media platforms.
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Yara ImageIT
Yara ImageIT is a smartphone app designed to measure nitrogen uptake in a crop and generate a nitrogen recommendation based on photographs of the crop. Besides showing the user how much nitrogen to apply to obtain optimal yield and crop quality, ImageIT provides quality assured fertiliser recommendations with Yara-preferred product and contact information of the closest Yara office.
The app turns a farmer’s smartphone camera into a high-tech crop nutrient tester. ImageIT calculates nitrogen uptake based on leaf cover, leaf green colour and estimated fraction of brown leaves. The technology behind the application is a comprehensive image analysis that classifies leaf pixels, filters noisy areas and counts leaf pixels.
Despite being an advanced agricultural tool, ImageIT is user-friendly and flexible in terms of technical requirements. The app is largely insensitive to camera type and works with low resolution images with a file size as small as 50 to 200kB. In poor signal areas, ImageIT can store images offline to enable photo capture with no network access, and send the photographs for interpretation when the smartphone reaches a wifi or 3G zone.
Mix My Sprayer
Mix My Sprayer was created to aid with quick, accurate calculations of product mixes to be applied with spraying equipment. Users can create custom lists of favourite products by category.
Simply add or select a product, insert values in each input box, and the app automatically calculates the amount of product to include in the user-defined mix size. Units for each input can be customized by tapping the unit buttons. Products are saved with the user settings last used. This free mobile smartphone app is designed for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android devices.
GPS Fields Area Measure
This app allows the area of fields to be calculated using Google Maps to locate the field. On finding the field, marking pins can be dropped around the perimeter of the area to be measured. The app calculates the distance around the field and the area inside the selection. A neat feature is that the selected area on the map can be saved and sent to contractors or other farmers who can access the data. There are a lot of this type of app out there at the moment.
Herdwatch
With Herdwatch, you can register calves and record your remedies, anytime, anywhere. The information recorded is fully compliant with EU legislation and Bord Bia quality schemes. With the latest updates, management of the full breeding cycle is available, from heat checks to inseminations/serves as well as pregnancy scan results. Serves and scan results are automatically sent to ICBF and will show in HerdPlus if you are registered with ICBF.
Herdwatch can be used offline and on multiple smartphones, tablets or computers and it is backed up to the cloud.
Cost is €99 (incl VAT) per year with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Michelin Pressure Calculator
Michelin’s free agricultural tyre pressure calculator app is now compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. It says that this will give even more farmers and contractors access to on-the-spot bespoke tyre pressure advice.
The Michelin Pressure Calculator app instantly works out the most appropriate tyre pressure settings for desired load and speed on any farm tractor in just three easy steps.
Firstly, the user must enter the tractor’s front and rear axle load and tool weight, and then select the size of Michelin tyres fitted to both the tractor’s axles from a simple dropdown menu. Finally, a quick snap with the device’s integrated camera allows the app to calculate the precise load distribution and the length of the overhang, measured from the wheels, to define the tractor’s optimum pressure recommendations.
Tractorpal
This app acts as an inventory record keeper for all your vehicles, including tractors. All the data on a particular vehicle can be entered, including the serial number, last service, purchase date, model year, purchase price and original miles/hours. Maintenance manager as part of the Tractorpal app records all oil changes and repair history for the vehicle. The information records can be emailed directly to any person in relation to work on the vehicle. This app may be useful for farmers with a number of vehicles in the fleet.
Irish Farmers Journal app
Get the latest agricultural news, commentary and technical farm content from the Irish Farmers Journal through its latest iPhone, iPad and Android app. The app is free to download, and all users can access up to 10 free Journal+ articles per month, from any section. Users can read unlimited articles marked FREE. Subscribers get full access to cover all sections of the app for €9.99 per month. If you have already registered with the Irish Farmers Journal, your username and password will allow you to log in to the app. The loyalty code found in the Irish Country Living section will give Irish Farmers Journal print readers unlimited access for the whole week to all media platforms.
Read more
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