SKY Agriculture wins a silver medal at the AGRITECHNICA Innovation Award for its FERTIEYE

Take a photo of your fertilizer and
FERTIEYE automatically adjusts the spreader!

SKY Agriculture is proud to announce that its FERTIEYE innovation has just been awarded the silver medal at theAGRITECHNICA Innovation Award,one of the world’s most prestigious competitions for agricultural innovations.

This award recognizes SKY Agriculture’s ongoing commitment to ever more precise, high-performance and environmentally-friendly agriculture. It also rewards the company’s experience in the field of fertilization for almost 90 years.

Julien BUREL, President of SKY Agriculture: ” Precise fertilization relies above all on reliable fertilizer analysis. For several years now, however, we have been witnessing increasing heterogeneity in fertilizer quality across Europe. As a result, it has become almost indispensable to adjust spreader settings in real time as the work progresses. With FertiEye, the farmer has a secure setting in a matter of seconds, guaranteeing optimum spreading quality. This major, patented innovation is in line with the many technological advances developed by SKY Agriculture, which have already been incorporated into our spreaders and those of other manufacturers through industrial agreements (Jacto, Lemken, etc.). These patented systems include TRIBORD (automated edge management), ECONOV (automated management of cuts and openings), EPSILON blades (dual-flow ejection) and SPEED CONTROL (automatic adjustment of spreading width according to forward speed). “

FERTIEYE: laboratory expertise in farmers’ pockets

Designed by SKY Agriculture teams, FertiEye is a revolutionary image analysis system that automatically adjusts fertilizer spreaders to the product actually used in the field, on the day.

This innovative technology transfers laboratory know-how directly into the field:

• An ingenious mechanical system takes a representative sample, mechanically separates the particles, and then prepares the image to be calibrated in shape and color.
• An image analysis algorithm precisely measures the morphological characteristics of each grain: diameter, angularity, size distribution…
• Based on this data, FertiEye calculates the ballistic parameters and automatically sends the correct settings to the spreader, via Wi-Fi.
• It’s important to point out that FertiEye performs a genuine ballistic analysis of the fertilizer’s specific characteristics, not a simple photo comparison with an existing database. It’s not an approximate system, but an individualized, highly precise tool.

The result: in just 5 seconds, farmers obtain a reliable setting, without having to send samples to the laboratory (a process which previously took several weeks).