The 158 hectare Agrícola La Hornilla in Chile has been in operation since 1986. Click through the carousel to learn more about this Bayer ForwardFarm.
1. Integrated crop protection solutions: Integrating crop protection products in a sustainable way with modern agricultural techniques.
2. Insect pest monitoring: Continuous pest monitoring allows accurate applications and only when necessary.
3. Weed monitoring: Permanent resistance monitoring of weeds, in order to implement control programs to avoid buildup of resistant weeds.
4. Efficiency in agricultural tasks: Platforms to facilitate and improve thinning, pruning and harvesting, ensuring greater efficiency and safety in agricultural tasks.
5. Weather and irrigation monitoring: Real-time information on weather conditions assists in achieving the correct use of crop protection products and optimal irrigation.
6. Satellite monitoring: The satellite photographic spectrophotometric information helps determine orchard health throughout the season.
7. Operator safety: Maximizing user safety throughout all stages of crop protection with personal protective equipment.
8. Targeted applications: Efficient product application with electrostatic machines, which achieve better coverage, use less water, cause less drift and increase user safety.
9. Water protection: Phytobac®: sustainable management of wastewater from cleaning equipment in a in a process that biologically breaks down crop protection product residues.
10. Preserving biodiversity: Planting of flower strips for feeding and proliferation of pollinators and other beneficial organisms.
11. Healthy hives for pollination: Demonstrating good hive-management practices for healthy bees, ensuring optimal pollination services to the farm.
12. Partnerships: Bringing together skills and expertise to demonstrate successful and modern sustainable farming in a holistic way.
Happy Pollinators
Biodiversity is essential for agricultural production. Although one third of the crops that are fundamental to humans are pollinated by bees, there are many other wild pollinator species that also contribute to this task. On the Santa Inés farm, concrete measures have been taken to enrich the habitat of pollinators, improve their diet and help them proliferate, including sowing 1,000 square meters with rows of various wildflower species, such as bloomers – a mix of 30 species of annual and perennial flowers – to ensure that pollinators have food throughout the year.
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