Weeds in your own garden are annoying: sometimes they rob the vegetable plants of light, sometimes they choke the beautiful flowers. In arable farming, it can lead to expensive harvest losses. But in order to combat the unpleasant plants effectively, you have to recognize them first. In this article you will learn about apps with which you can identify weeds and which are also suitable for agricultural use.
Agricultural determiners: diagnosis and tips
The chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer also produces crop protection products. There is also a free app from Bayer CropScience: With the Agricultural Determiner, you can use your smartphone to identify weeds and grasses as well as diseases and pests that occur in arable farming. In the settings you will find an offline mode with which you can work without an internet connection. The app has a lexicon with a search function and a diagnostic function that guides you to the result via a questionnaire. In addition, the application provides information on how to combat the problems - but this is advertising for Bayer products.
The Agrar Determimmer app guides you through a questionnaire based on characteristics for diagnosis. top weed: independent tips by subscription
The specialist magazine top agrar and the Chamber of Agriculture North Rhine-Westphalia have their own app: top weed. This allows you to identify weeds and weeds using three photos that show the respective plant in different stages of development. Then the application gives tips on how to control the unwanted plants with certain herbicides. You can list up to five key weeds in your inventory and receive advice that fits your needs exactly. You do not need an internet connection for the app, but you have to take out a subscription that costs € 4.99 per year after a 14-day test phase..
To use the top weed app, you need to take out a subscription. Then you get independent tips. AgroBase - weeds: identification by photo
The AgroBase - Weeds app is available in two versions: a free version and a paid premium version for just under € 4 per month. The former only contains one image per weed, which you can use to identify the respective plant. Pay, get more photos and features, and get no more ads. In addition to unpleasant plants, you can also use the application to determine diseases and pests, and you will also receive information on how to combat them. To use the app, you need to download the pesticide and problem catalog for your language region. Unfortunately, the awkward (or missing) translation of the app interface into German is sometimes a bit annoying.
With the free version of AgroBase you can identify weeds based on photos and descriptions. For sugar beets: BISZ weed determination
The portal "Advice and information for the southern German sugar beet cultivation" (BISZ) has its own app. This allows you to identify weeds and grasses that occur specifically in sugar beets. Descriptions and photos of individual parts of the plant will help you, and you can use a questionnaire to tinker with the plant characteristics. You only need an internet connection to view the images. BISZ weed identification is free of charge..
The BISZ app is specially tailored to sugar beet. You can use it to identify weeds based on characteristics. Plant recognition apps
In this article you learned about applications that are particularly suitable for arable farming. Of course, you can also identify weeds with apps that are intended for general identification of plants. We present a selection of such plant recognition apps for smartphones in this article.