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Profitability is not given the necessary attention in contemporary precision agriculture. In this work, a new tool, namely ProFit, is developed within a pre-existing farm management system, namely ifarma, to assess the profitability of precision agriculture applications in extended crops, as most of the current solutions available on the market respond inadequately to this need. ProFit offers an easy-to-use interface to enter financial records, while it uses the dynamic map view environment of ifarma to display the profitability maps. Worked examples reveal that profitability maps end up being quite different from yield maps in site-specific applications. The module is regulated at a 5 m spatial resolution, thus allowing scaling up of original and processed data on a zone-, field-, cultivar-, and farm-scale. A bottom-up approach, taking advantage of the full functionality of ifarma, together with a flexible architecture allowing future interventions and improvements, renders ProFit an innovative commercial tool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, bridging precision agriculture (PA) with farm management is a high priority. To respond to this challenge, a precision fertilization service for extended crops, namely ‘PreFer’ (developed by 'Ecodevelopment' enterprise), was embedded as a new module in a cloud-based farm management information system (FMIS), namely ‘ifarma’ (developed by 'Agrostis' enterprise). The new PreFer module preserves the full potential of the original service methodology, while taking advantage of all fundamental functionalities of the ifarma platform. PreFer as a service uses a GIS to store and process the farmers’ geodatabases, which are fed from multiple sources, such as soil surveys, satellite data, yield monitors, etc. This GIS is also used to feed the machine learning algorithms of ‘PreFer’ with the required data to produce the prescription maps for both broadcasting and topdressing fertilizations. Then, all tables and maps are transferred from the GIS to the platform upon their production, thus becoming immediately available to the farmers. The ‘ifarma/PreFer' module was tested during the 2022 cultivation season, showing that fully meets farmers' requirements. This work also indicates that synergies like this are more than necessary to create added-value in commercial precision agriculture.

Profitability is not given the necessary attention in contemporary precision agriculture. In this work, a new tool, namely ProFit, is developed within a pre-existing farm management system, namely ifarma, to assess the profitability of precision agriculture applications in extended crops, as most of the current solutions available on the market respond inadequately to this need. ProFit offers an easy-to-use interface to enter financial records, while it uses the dynamic map view environment of ifarma to display the profitability maps. Worked examples reveal that profitability maps end up being quite different from yield maps in site-specific applications. The module is regulated at a 5 m spatial resolution, thus allowing scaling up of original and processed data on a zone-, field-, cultivar-, and farm-scale. A bottom-up approach, taking advantage of the full functionality of ifarma, together with a flexible architecture allowing future interventions and improvements, renders ProFit an innovative commercial tool.