Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) has signed a three-year contract with agtech company The Yield Technology Solutions to install a system, which can harvest predictions and weather notifications using gridded weather across Australia and New Zealand.
The Yield Sensing+ solution uses sensors and analytics to help large commercial growers make production decisions such as when to irrigate, feed, plant, protect and harvest.
It will be combined with TWE’s historical harvest data and develop harvest predication models to aid “high frequency yield forecasting throughout the growing season”.
“The enterprise capability of our Sensing+ solution means that customers are fast-tracked along the digital transformation pathway,” said The Yield founder and managing director Ros Harvey.
“The rules and notifications platform helps codify weather-related practice, while our enterprise view enables our customers’ staff to have a unified view across all growing assets right down to the block level. This means they can take action on growing conditions such as extreme weather risks, irrigation needs, the best spray conditions and harvest scheduling.”
“We are pleased to be working with such a prestigious global brand as TWE and look forward to further strengthening our strong relationship over coming vintages.”
TWE’s contract for the solution will run from 2021-2023, and is among one of many commercial rollouts using The Yield technology, including Costa Group.
