Questions and answers about the Cropwise^® Protector agricultural decision support tools

Date:10-28-2024

Cropwise^® Protector allows you to manage crop fungicide protection effectively. This section answers your questions about this agricultural decision-support tool.

In a few words, what is Cropwise^® Protector?

Cropwise^® Protector is a decision-making tool that allows farmers and their technicians to accurately manage crop fungicide protection based on disease risk. This tool integrates reliable internal agroclimatic models, such as the AVIZIO™ model or proven agroclimatic models.

Which crops and diseases are concerned?

Cropwise^® Protector is an operational tool for wheat and barley that benefits from Syngenta's expertise in predicting cereal foliar diseases with the AVIZIO™ model.

The risk forecast concerns eyespot, septoria, yellow rust, brown rust, fusarium graminearum, and powdery mildew in soft wheat and durum winter wheat. In winter barley, the diseases concerned are rhynchosporiosis, helminthosporiosis, ramularia, dwarf rust, and powdery mildew.

What is the benefit of Cropwise^® Protector for the farmer?

Cropwise^® Protector makes it possible to assess the harmfulness of diseases on farmers' plots by integrating plot data and weather data as close as possible to the plot. In practice, Cropwise^® Protector predicts the evolution of crop stages and anticipates the development of diseases 7 days ahead, which allows the farmer to reason and position the fungicide protection precisely for optimal efficiency and thus preserve the profitability of the crop. The farmer can also visualize the optimal treatment windows, which makes it easier to organize his work.

How is a plot's agronomic data integrated into Cropwise^® Protector?

Cropwise^® Protector can be connected to the main plot management tools and weather stations on the market. Syngenta has thus developed partnerships with companies offering traceability software such as Smag, Wiuz, or Geofolia so that the plot data used by the models are directly integrated into Cropwise^® Protector without new data entry. Similarly, these agricultural decision support tools can be interconnected with connected weather stations such as Sencrop or Weenat. Thus, the agroclimatic models of the Cropwise^® Protector tool provide risk forecasts as close as possible to the plot by taking into account spatial data or data from the farm's weather station, which simplifies the farmer's work by avoiding new data entries.

How to access Cropwise^® Protector forecasts?

The Cropwise^® Protector tool is easily accessible on PC and mobile with a dedicated application. In just a few clicks, the farmer has an overview of his plots, can access the evolution of diseases on each plot, view the progression of the disease on the plant, and view spraying windows. It's practical, simple, fast, and efficient! In addition, users receive a weekly bulletin summarizing the health situation by email each week.

Is Cropwise^® Protector profitable?

Syngenta has carried out 43 comparisons of the positioning of fungicide protection for wheat over the period 2015-2024 based on the triggers of the AVIZIO™ model integrated into Cropwise^® Protector. The results show that the use of this model has made it possible, on average, to preserve the yield of 1.1 q/ha thanks to the positioning of fungicide protection at the optimal stage. These positions are part of a Responsible Fungicide Protection approach.

What are the next developments for Cropwise^® Protector?

Since the 2024 campaign, Cropwise^® Protector has offered a forecasting module for the two major vine diseases, downy mildew, and powdery mildew, by incorporating the forecasts of the DeciTrait^® tool, a dedicated agricultural decision support tool for vine protection developed by the IFV. In the short term, a new forecasting tool is expected to predict the risk of late blight on potatoes. This tool integrates the Mileos potato late blight risk forecasting model from Arvalis.

Cropwise^® Protector is a module of our digital solution, Cropwise. The tool allows you to precisely manage the protection of your crops according to the risk in the plots.