Plant Protection, Fertilizing and Irrigation News about plant protection technology

Within the field of application technology a lot of innovations could be seen during this year which will be more and more available on the market in future. The numbers of sensor-controlled features supporting the operator are increasing. For the first time in the field of crop protection an instrument called "Connected Crop Protection" was presented which connects internet, software and spraying hardware within one system. Moreover a new concept for the direct injection of plant protection products on field sprayers was introduced having solved all the known difficulties of such systems in the past. Besides other technical innovations like e.g. puls with modulation the article informs about a new test procedure for automatic spray boom control systems as well as basic finding about the influence of technical parameters and their impact on the quality of spray liquid distribution in vertical crops.