Predictive Agriculture Analytics and APIs from
Iteris Now Cover Sorghum and Sunflower Crops
Iteris, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITI), the global leader in applied
informatics for transportation and agriculture, today announced the
addition of growth models for sunflower and sorghum crops into its
digital agriculture platform, ClearAg®.
Applying predictive analytics and data science to agriculture,
the Iteris’ ClearAg Platform incorporates crop growth models to
provide projections to growers and agribusinesses on when to plant,
fertilize, treat and harvest crops. With the addition of sunflower
and sorghum crop growth models, ClearAg APIs can now be integrated
to inform science-based insights for optimizing productivity,
resource management and plant health for 10 different crops that
represent more than two billion metric tons of annual production,
around the world.
“Our software developers, agronomists and data scientists work
together to build advanced predictive models regarding the growth
stages of specific crop species,” said Tom Blair, senior vice
president of agriculture and weather analytics at Iteris. “We now
have precise science-based data built into our sunflower and
sorghum plant growth models that cover the plants’ seedling
emergence, vegetative, reproductive and physiologically mature
states. This capability, combined with our global land surface
modeling, dynamically generated weather data, and machine learning
platform for digital agriculture produces a powerful tool for our
customers to establish, grow and harvest crops more
efficiently.”
ClearAg is a leading digital agriculture platform that delivers
weather, water, soil and crop health data and advisory services to
growers, researchers and other agribusinesses who need accurate,
location-based information available on a worldwide basis. Iteris
is the only weather information and data science company to apply
Land Surface Modeling (LSM) technology to agronomic problems.
Customers get direct access to ClearAg weather, water, soil and
crop data through application programming interfaces (APIs).
Determining In-Field or In-Shed Sunflower Seed
Harvesting
According to the USDA, sunflower seeds are one of the five
largest oilseed crops with about 40 million metric tons produced in
the world annually. Most sunflower seeds are crushed for oil while
far fewer are roasted and sold as snacks or incorporated into bird
feed.
One of the challenges in harvesting sunflower seeds is that the
flower head must dry before they can be easily thrashed. In dry,
sunny weather this can be done most efficiently in-field. But in
cooler, wetter or cloudier weather, mold can quickly set in and
farmers may need to supply dry, warm air before further processing
can take place, adding significant expense.
Using patented field level analytics combined with weather data
and plant growth models, ClearAg can now help growers and
agribusinesses to make better informed decisions like whether to
allow sunflower plants to dry in-field or provide additional
drying.
Timing Is Critical for Optimal Sorghum Productivity
In the past year, worldwide production of sorghum totaled more
than 60 million metric tons according to the USDA. Sorghum has
historically been used primarily as animal feed, and less often for
ethanol and as a syrupy sweetener. It can also be cooked whole or
ground into an ancient-grain, as gluten-free flour. It is a drought
resistant crop that remains hearty in hotter, drier climates, but
it often needs additional nutrients just prior to flowering stage,
to produce optimally.
With the addition of the crop growth model for sorghum,
customers can now integrate ClearAg APIs to inform data-driven
decisions about when sorghum crops are likely to reach the
reproductive stage so they can time nutrient application
accordingly.
About Iteris, Inc.
Iteris is the global leader in applied informatics for
transportation and agriculture, turning big data into big
breakthrough solutions. We collect, aggregate and analyze data on
traffic, roads, weather, water, soil and crops to generate precise
informatics that lead to safer transportation and smarter farming.
Municipalities, government agencies, crop science companies,
farmers and agronomists around the world use our solutions to make
roads safer and travel more efficient, as well as farmlands more
sustainable, healthier and productive. Visit www.iteris.com for
more information.
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growth model capabilities and anticipated benefits and success of
these new capabilities. Such statements are not guarantees of
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could differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any
forward-looking statements as a result of various factors.
Important factors that may cause such a difference include, but
are not limited to, ability to successfully integrate the ClearAg
APIs; the future adoption of the new capabilities and the ClearAg
solution in the agribusiness markets; our dedication of resources
and ability to achieve market acceptance of the new capabilities
and the ClearAg solution; our ability to gain additional patent
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