Case Study: Xarivo Field Manager

The Xarivo Field Manager is a digital product developed by Xarivo digital farming solutions. The new digital product supports growers and agronomists to make better informed decisions on protecting their crops and increasing efficiency and profitability.

Field Manager combines the visualisation of field zones with two cutting-edge Spray Timer and Zone Spray features. These provide growers and agronomists with tools for identifying field-specific disease risk and optimising fungicide applications to improve crop production both economically and sustainably. Xarivo offers digital products that deliver independent field-zone-specific agronomic insights and alerts, enabling farmers and agronomists to grow crops in the most efficient way by leveraging algorithms with data from real fields more than 25 years ago.1

Value proposition summary

• Current Biomass Maps of field zones, based on analysis and interpretation of real-time satellite data.
• Historic field Power Zone maps based on up to 15 years of satellite data.
• Compare field zone maps for yield, nutrition, crop protection, growth regulators, seeding and soil.
• Detailed 10-day and hourly weather forecast for each of your fields, historic weather data

Product offerings

General outreach

Xarivo Field Manager is part of a suite of digital farming products provided by Xarivo Digital Farming Solutions, which is part of BASF’s Agricultural Solutions Division. The Xarivo offering also includes a Xarivo Scouting app. Launched in the United States in 2018, Scouting supports farmers in efficiently monitoring fields for diseases, weeds and leaf damage using a smartphone camera. The Xarivo Scouting app is available for free in the App Store and Google Play.

Field management solution

The Xarivo Field Manager spray timer delivers recommendations to growers’ mobile devices on the right timing for corn and winter wheat fungicide application by combining multiple variables from field-specific data (geolocation, crop rotation, crop/variety and previous applications) with crop variety data (susceptibilities and growth stage characteristics) and local weather data (air and soil temperature and humidity). This then automatically recommends the optimal spray period and intensity to ensure economic use of the pesticides.

Farmer impact

The Xarivo field manager gives its 30,000 European users access to farm data insights, and more accurate field mapping, the ability to share farm access and a useful overview of farms, enabling better decision-making. Launched in the United Kingdom in (2021) the Field Manager has already amassed 1,100 new users. By working closely with growers and agronomists, Xarivo has enhanced the platform’s accuracy and forecasting abilities.