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Today we take you on a tour of the FMM Service farm, which works on behalf of Inewa: a company working in the agroenergy sector that manages and builds biogas and biomethane plants with the aim of providing its customers with a sustainable energy carrier to be used for the production of electricity. Nicola Ferro, manager of FMM Service, tells us how, under the advice of Inewa itself, he approached the world xFarm for the management of his company.
The agricultural company FMM Service operates in the field of contracting, we work on behalf of several companies, one of the most relevant is the one entrusted to us by Inewa. The latter covers an area of 500 hectares, in which we grow cereals and industrial horticulture, the by-products of which are used to feed biogas and biomethane plants for bioenergy production.
Ours is a farm that aims for efficiency and sustainability. Before we met xFarm it was difficult to know the actual field conditions, in particular we did not know precisely the soil moisture and the amount of rain that fell; this made it complex to assess rainfall in fields not adjacent to the farm center, just as it was difficult to understand the best time to carry out irrigation and other agronomic operations.
We discovered xFarm thanks to Inewa, which has always supported us in digitizing the campaigns we manage so that we can be more precise and efficient in our daily work. When Inewa proposed that we adopt xFarm as our digital platform, we welcomed this very positively, partly because we had been looking for an intuitiveapp for campaign control for some time.
In order to have timely control in all areas of our farm, we decided to install several sensors: 3 professional weather stations xSense to control all environmental parameters and a network of 5 sensors to control soil moisture xNode. Thanks to these devices, we are now able to monitor the fields much more effectively, so that we know for sure when we need to irrigate and when we do not.
First, we would like to install more weather stations to complement the ones we already have, so as to expand the extent of the monitoring network. In addition, given our highly articulated fleet, we would like to implement telemetry on all vehicles, so as to efficiently track the activities carried out in the countryside.
Given the increasingly uncertain climate and ongoing climate change, equipping oneself with a tool like xFarm becomes indispensable for those who want to approach more sustainable and resilient agriculture. I am sure, with the support and vision of Inewa and xFarm, we will have ways to continue to discover the potential of digital agriculture by becoming more efficient and sustainable.
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