ADAS have recently started working on a Defra/UKRI Farming Innovations Pathway research project in collaboration with Sheffield University and Mutus Tech Ltd. The aim of this project is to develop a “smart app” to help farmers with the identification and treatment of invertebrate pests in wheat.
We want the final product to be able to:
We want the final product to be able to:
- Detect invertebrates in or on the crop canopy from photographs;
- Determine whether the invertebrates present in the image are one of the specified pests
- Count the number of pests in the image and equate this to economic thresholds;
- Where thresholds are exceeded, provide the user with management advice
- Aphids, winter: The grain aphid, the bird cherry-oat aphid
- Aphids, summer: The grain aphid, the rose-grain aphid
- Wheat bulb fly
- Slugs
- Orange wheat blossom midge
- Wireworm
- Leatherjackets
- Frit fly
- Gout fly
- Farmer survey link: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/N6GE4R/
- Agronomist survey link: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/DVQU5P/