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Help us develop a smart app to manage wheat pests

Brid @ ADAS

Member
Grassland Exhibitor
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:
  • 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
The focal pests will include:
  • 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
We want to create a practical product that helps you in the field so please do take our 5-minute survey so we can understand and best meet your needs. Thank you!
 

Skater

New Member
How do you detect wireworms, from a picture of the crop canopy?
And what is the threshold in potatoes?
I need a camera like that.
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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