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Digital agriculture can help Brazil achieve record corn crop projection

Maize (Corn)
Brazil
Published Mar 2, 2023

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Brazil is the third largest corn producer in the world and the expectation is for an increase of 12.5% in the 2022/23 harvest – reaching the historical record of 127 million tons according to Conab research. To reach this mark, producers relied on an important ally: digital agriculture. According to the study Guia do Milho, carried out by Climate Fieldview, 75% use the resource in farming. The survey interviewed agronomists, farm owners and digital agriculture professionals and pointed to two tools as the most used: monitoring software, adopted by half of the producers, and climate forecasting solutions, used by 25%. Among the technologies used, agricultural telemetry is the least used: only 12.5% of corn producers opt for it. With the use of sensors in the farm's equipment, this technology allows the collection of data on the performance of the machinery – and avoids losses resulting from malfunctions. According to the Corn Guide, two resources share the preference of producers: ...
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