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Download PDF There’s already a wealth of information on how best to use Revystar XE, but how do make sense of it on your own farm? CPM asks two growers with experience of digital platforms and finds out how xarvio Field Manager will fit in. It’ll become an invaluable way to prioritise and time various treatments when we haven’t got the comfort blanket CTL provides. By Tom Allen-Stevens Imagine if you could scan a QR code on a packet of oats which brought up an app that allowed you to trace the product right back to the farm of origin so you could ensure they were gluten-free. It’s a project involving a number of growers in Aberdeenshire, including Andrew Booth of Savock Farms, near Ellon, who are developing systems to put more trust and integrity into the food industry. It’s built on blockchain, a tamperproof system of digitally filing and preserving a list of records. As well as developing a farmer-owned oat-processing plant, they’ve received almost £100,000 of funding from the Scottish Government Knowledge Transfer and Innovation Fund to pioneer the technology. “If a product’s gluten-free, there are very strict measures everyone, including growers, must follow to avoid contamination,” explains…
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