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Weed Identification Tool
on Your Smartphone
When it comes to agriculture, more mobile phone of options within the app. You can also use the app
applications are appearing everyday – just like to share the image you snapped, as well as photos
weeds in your fields and pastures. The Ag Weed ID from the gallery, with a consultant to verify.
app for your smartphone can help you identify
mystery weeds that appear. Each weed in the database is shown in three life
stages including seedling, mid-season and mature.
This gallery-based application serves as a scouting Ideally, you want to identify weeds in the early
aid. You can search weeds by the month that they stages in order to have better control. Once you
are sprouting, location, the type of crop they are in match your unknown weed with one in the
and the weed type (broadleaf or grass). The search database, you can learn more about its resistance
result will give you a list of options. In the peak profile, control timing recommendations and other
season, this search will give you many options to information about the plant’s life cycle.
view. You can eliminate the ones that you know
are not the weed in hand and view the gallery of Instead of carrying around a weed ID book, use the
remaining choices. smartphone that is already in your pocket to help
with scouting this season. Download Ag Weed ID
You also have the option to snap a photo of the created by Farm Progress through Apple iTunes or
weed. This allows you to do a side-by-side the Google Play Store.
comparison of the picture you took and the gallery
