Radicle Agronomics, a new generation of potent tools for professional agronomics, was founded by Precision Planting. This allows them to forgo manual and error-prone processes and instead concentrate their attention on the agronomics problems their farmer customers are facing.
According to Dale Koch, product manager for Precision Planting, "Soil nutrient management is a pressing concern in modern agriculture, offering farmer profitability and environmental stewardship. We founded Radicle Agronomics to revolutionize soil nutrient management with precise tools and trustworthy agronomic data so that agronomists are better prepared to lead farmers to superior results," the company claims.
The centerpiece of this new set of instruments, Radicle Lab, is the first completely automated soil laboratory ever created. Agronomists may streamline their workflow with its tiny footprint, self-calibration technology, and capacity to run hundreds of samples unattended.
Agronomists can confidently perform a precision soil analysis in minutes without lifting a finger thanks to Radicle Lab's unique, patent-pending Microflow technology, which eliminates all human mistakes that occur during the typical laboratory process.
A big team of scientists and engineers collaborated to create Radicle Lab over the course of six years, according to Koch. This is an exciting day for our hard-working team as we unveil this user-friendly yet accurate technology.
Agronomists can also find GeoPress in the product line, which does away with the labor-intensive record-keeping and bag-handling tasks associated with a soil sample. As a collaborator with Radicle Lab, GeoPress attaches to any field-ready vehicle, combines the soil sample automatically, and stores it in a geo-referenced, reusable container.
Following their return to Radicle Lab, these filled containers are loaded into the system, connected to the field, and examined for soil nutrients. Data is seamlessly sent between GeoPress and Radicle Lab between the office and the field, doing away with the inconvenience of manually labelling samples.
A cloud-based software package combines all phases of the field-to-lab process to complete the suite and enable agronomists to provide their clients with enhanced nutrient management recommendations.
