AGRI-PULSE - When it comes to agricultural innovation, the Netherlands is a leader. And particularly in the area of precision technologies, a lot has been happening lately. Some recent innovations have been thoroughly tested and proven; others are still new but show a lot of potential. Three innovative onion farmers share their experiences with precision agriculture.
The Thes Agro farm boasts plenty of in-house knowledge about precision techniques. In fact, such methods are everyday practice these days on its fields in the Dutch village of Burgh-Haamstede. “All our machines are GPS-guided, and we perform a lot of actions using task maps, which allow us to work in a highly location-specific way,” says the company’s Johan van der Wekken.