These are difficult times for everyone.
With the recent events happening across the globe due to COVID-19, we are offering:
The early release of our new benchmarking tool to support:
– Increase capacity
– Save time
– Compare fields
– Target crop walking
– Prioritise applications
– Maximise efficiency
– Save time through prioritised scouting
Help on farm during harvest for any of our customers in need
Contact us via email: covid@hummingbirdtech.com
The last 2 weeks have been immeasurably tough for many of our stakeholders, and in these challenging times, we would like to start this message by sending our best wishes to you and your family. We are all trying to make sense of a new world order, to endure the global COVID-19 crisis, and to thrive as a business, even in spite of the obvious challenges it presents.
Hummingbird’s own COVID-19 journey began on 10th March, when a German colleague became symptomatic. Although employees were not immediately at risk of exposure, we ‘dry ran’ a quarantined lockdown of our Hoxton London HQ on 11th March, and have remained in ‘work from home’ mode ever since.
Hummingbird is developing a light-touch dashboard to bring together key sustainability metrics in an easy-to-view format. It will combine remote-sensed satellite data and data pulled through strategic software and equipment integrations. Satellite sources will provide multi-spectral, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and microwave radiation data, giving us innovative capabilities to track sustainable practice, calibrated with actual soil organic carbon measurements, sampled from within the field.
The dashboard will allow farmers to see their own environmental impact and show them to a variety of stakeholders. The scalable and objective nature of the dashboard will allow the values for individual farms to be contextualised on a regional or national basis and provide verification to those stakeholders for whom monitoring is a necessity.
To find out more about this exciting project, please contact one of the team members.
We are very pleased to announce that we are fully integrated with John Deere farm machinery and the JD Ops Centre.
We are working on improving the other integrations for the cloud services offered by equipment manufacturers, such as AGCO covering Massey, Fendt (Fuse), Topcon, Trimble, Raven Slingshot), Agrirouter, Farmnet 365, CNH (AFS Connect).
Moreover, we are building on our integration with Farm Management Platforms such as Gatekeeper – UK, 1C ERP – Ukraine, Farm at Hand and Telus – Canada, Muddyboots – UK, Agrichain – Ukraine
With our crop type classification team, we are getting ready to start another exciting stage in the product life cycle, improving on our product which already delivers over 90% accuracy mid-season. Never has the remote monitoring of crops and supply chain logistics been more important than for this 2020 season coming up. As crop type classification uses the latest deep learning methods to analyse the time series of crop specific reflection patterns, it is of utmost importance for us to generate the most reliable and complete time series of satellite images. That is why we decided to choose an active satellite source, such as Sentinel 1. With a revisit rate of 5 days, the indifference to cloud cover and the spatial resolution of 10x10m Sentinel 1 offers the perfect baseline to build our analysis on top. Our crop type classification is used to scope out markets, identify crop rotation and monitor sustainability over a complete landbank or on regional level.
Hummingbird’s Variable Rate Seed tool helps you eliminate the poor performing areas of the field and minimise the need for expensive and time consuming soil sampling, as well as, avoid the over application which increases the risks of lodging and diseases.
For more information on how the tool works, please get in touch with one of our UK regional account managers
Our market leading Sugarcane products are now being rolled out across the country (and have successfully been exported to Africa). Our Gap Row Detection and Crop Row Reconstruction products mean that growers can eliminate the risk of low yielding fields by enabling them to replant where gaps exist. Additional benefits include a higher renovation rate and a reduction in chemical spend as fertilisers, fungicides and insecticides are only used where plants are growing.
To find out more, please contact one of the team members – Marcello@hummingbirdtech.com; pedro@hummingbirdtech.com, gabor@hummingbirdtech.com.
Our Russian team will be taking part in the engineering exhibition “Agrocomplex” in Ufa city of Bashkortostan republic.
If you would like to meet our team, please do not hesitate to stop by and see us.
For further information on this or future events and Hummingbird products, please get in touch with anton@hummingbirdtech.com
Our Canadian team was keeping very busy by traveling for joint meetings with the Telus Ag team Manitoba/Saskatchewan and Winfield United, Nutrien, FCL, Cargill, P&H, Univar and Richardson.
Our Independent Retail focus for this month has been highly targeted towards GJ Chem, Ag Advantage, Ag Link, Gmac, ShurGrow, Synergy Ag.
We have been working with the University of Manitoba, Olds College, VRT and Yield Predictive analytics to minimise the impact of the current state of work from home and canceled face-to-face meetings due to COVID – 19.
For any further information, please contact – brian@hummingbirdtech.com
If you would like to talk to us about any of our product services, are interested in discussing R & D projects with us, or have any feedback on our services and platform, please do get in touch with us at sales@hummingbirdtech.com
During this unprecedented and challenging period, we at Hummingbird are deeply committed to helping our customers and the wider community in any way that we can.
If you or someone you know needs help with food shopping, with urgent deliveries, with setting up of IT systems or getting access to transport, then the company will do whatever it can to assist.
Please get in touch either directly, via our website or by emailing sales@hummingbirdtech.com
Let’s all get through this together!
We are very pleased to announce that we have taken our first step towards the Eastern European market starting with Poland by signing a reseller agreement with ProGea SKY. They will be reselling our product services in OSR, Cereals, Potatoes and Sugar Beet, as well as being a collaborative data collection partner.
For more information on this agreement please contact Hendrik Knyphausen at:hendrik@hummingbirdtech.com
We had the pleasure of presenting at multiple Agrovista Winter Conferences throughout England and Scotland this month, providing products and platform training with the agronomic sales teams.
You can come and meet our team at the events where we will be presenting on:
25th February – Doncaster – Agrovista Soil Health & Precision evening
10th March – Wigan & District Ag Society Dinner
As we mentioned in our January newsletter, we had just started flying fields for our knockdown product and we can now announce the successful completion of our first Knockdown application maps and in field spraying.
If you would like to find out more, please contact:mark@hummingbirdtech.comscottw@hummingbirdtech.com
We are proud to announce that we have been invited to the Ukraine International event organised by John Deere on the 24-25 February, where we will be amongst dealers from 6 other countries representing Agtech and our latest integration work with John Deere.
Our team in Russia took part in an extended meeting of the board for the results of the agricultural sector for 2019 and the tasks for 2020 at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Tatarstan on the 12th -14th of February.
Please come to meet your team at the upcoming Agrishow Event, which will take place in May, where we are presenting our new to market place product services, and we are also taking part in John Deere demonstration activities.
To find out more, please contact one of the team members:pedro@hummingbirdtech.commarcello@hummingbirdtech.comgabor@hummingbirdtech.com
Using satellite data captured from arable fields, Hummingbird Technologies will create advanced crop analytics, powered by deep learning and artificial intelligence.
Agrovista agronomists will use this to target crop walking and inform management decisions, by building a library of information on a per-field basis. The data will also be used to produce precise recommendations and application maps for fertiliser and plant protection products, targeting inputs and improving efficiency whilst minimising environmental impact.
“We are delighted to be supporting Agrovista and their team of agronomists on the front line. The combination of our remote sensing and data analytics skills with Agrovista’s agronomic knowledge provides a high-quality service and robust support tool for farmers. Selling through the agronomy channel at scale is now our preferred route to market,” said Will Wells, Chief Executive Officer of Hummingbird Technologies.
Hummingbird has also developed an in-house cloud detection and coverage tool. This feature identifies and masks cloud cover from satellite imagery, facilitating the use of partially cloudy satellite images. This is achieved by allowing the user to set a flat rate to be applied to the areas of the field under cloud, whilst maintaining the VR across the remaining field.
This tool is a point of difference for Hummingbird, significantly increasing the amount of usable surveys available to Agrovista and their customers so key application timings are not missed.
Head of Soil Health at Agrovista, Chris Martin, said: “Our agreement with Hummingbird is part of a wider business commitment to targeted agronomy, working alongside our customers to help them make fully-informed data-driven decisions that not only offer a good return on investment, but also accommodate wider environmental factors.
“Agrovista aims to be abreast of the latest technological advancements so that our farmers can support UK food production in the most sustainable way possible, by using available tools effectively.
“As a business, we believe in being open to partnerships that give our customers added value, that contribute to Agrovista’s ability to be a total solutions provider.”
About Agrovista
Agrovista UK Limited is a leading supplier of agronomy advice, seed, crop protection products and precision farming services. Working alongside the arable, fruit, vegetable, horticultural and amenity sectors, Agrovista is committed to helping customers manage their businesses more efficiently and more profitably.
Agrovista was established more than 60 years ago and actively practices values of honesty, integrity and fairness across all aspects of the business, whilst taking pride in an innovative approach to research and development. It also embraces care for the wider environment, with an understanding of the important role now played by all those who manage the land.
The business is part of leading European organisation Agrovista BV, and overseen by international parent company, Marubeni Corporation. This makes Agrovista a significant supplier of plant protection inputs and advice, with more than 20% of the UK crop protection market.
About Hummingbird
Hummingbird Technologies, founded at the Imperial College Technology Incubator by Will Wells in 2016, is a global leader in remote sensing, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics for agriculture. The company has 60 full time employees headquartered in London, with satellite offices in São Paulo, Sydney, Calgary, Lviv and Moscow. The company has completed three previous fundraising rounds with backers including: SALIC, BASF Venture Capital, has Downing Ventures, Sir James Dyson, the European Space Agency, Horizons Ventures and Velcourt Farming Group.
Hummingbird’s unique artificial intelligence, deep learning and imagery analytics solution uses proprietary algorithms driven by aerial images captured from satellites, planes and unmanned aerial vehicles. These tools deliver real-time actionable recommendations, which both improve performance on farms through precise targeting of operations and inputs, as well as providing evidence-based justification and Return on Investment (ROI) proof for decision-making.
Agrovista UK Limited
Janine Heath
Marketing Communications Manager,
Phone: 07471997886
Hummingbird
Alexander Jevons
Chief Marketing Officer
Phone: +44 7917 415881