Crop protection · Use case

Disease, pest and spray, called before the pressure costs you.

ORTH reads pressure for the week ahead, matches the treatment to your protocol, calls the spray window, and checks every product against the market you sell into before the tank is filled.

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Scouting scoresField notesWeatherAlertsPhoto diagnosisKnowledge baseMRL & PHI checksPlansSpray windowsActionsPlot record

Scouting scores sit on paper and the spray programme treats every week the same, so pressure is found once it shows: powdery mildew as table-grape clusters size, Botrytis in a rose house, rust at flag leaf in wheat. Spray windows are read off a general forecast by whoever plans that week.

The count per active sits in a spreadsheet per farm, and a resistance-cap breach is found when efficacy drops. ORTH checks every product against the cap before the tank is filled.

What ORTH does

Pressure, product, cap, market and window, checked on every pass.

Six checks ORTH runs before a recommendation reaches the crew.

Scouting against your thresholds

Scores, counts and observations are logged from the row against the plot. ORTH reads them against your action thresholds per pest and disease and tells you which blocks have crossed the line and which are holding.

Pressure read from the weather ahead

Humidity, leaf wetness, rainfall and temperature for the week ahead are read against the crop’s stage and the pathogen’s biology. Pressure rises before symptoms show. You spray on the pressure and hold when it falls.

Your approved list, your protocol

Recommendations come only from your approved list for that crop and country. Dose, water volume, interval and the number of applications per season follow your protocol.

Resistance caps and rotation

Every active is counted through the season by mode of action. ORTH holds an application against the cap for that chemistry and rotates modes of action so the products keep working.

Residue limits, intervals, buyer specifications

Each planned application is checked against the residue limit and pre-harvest interval for the destination market, and against the buyer’s specification where it is tighter than the law. The check happens before the tank is filled.

Spray windows and the record

Wind, temperature, humidity and rain give the clean window per farm. Re-entry intervals and pollinator activity sit in the call. The pass goes out as an assigned action and comes back as a record with product, dose, plot, date and operator.

How it runs

Every pass checked and called, from the scouting score to the pass.

Your protocol sets the limits. ORTH enforces them on every recommendation. Your agronomist signs off.

01

Log the scouting scores

Crews log scouting scores, trap counts and observations from the row, by voice or photo, against the plot: mildew incidence on a grape block, thrips in the rose house, spotted-wing drosophila in the blueberries.

Scouting scoresField notes
02

ORTH reads the pressure for the week ahead

ORTH reads the scores against forecast humidity, rainfall and the crop’s stage and returns a pressure level per farm for the coming week, checked against your rotation guidance. You spray when pressure rises and hold when it does not.

WeatherAlerts
03

Diagnose from a photo

Send a photo of leaf spotting on a berry block or a lesion on a citrus leaf. ORTH returns the likely cause, your approved product and dose, the application window, the pre-harvest interval, and what to watch over the next 72 hours. When the picture is unclear, ORTH asks a question before it answers.

Photo diagnosisKnowledge base
04

Check before the tank is filled

ORTH checks every planned application against the residue limit and pre-harvest interval for the destination market, your buyer’s specification where it is tighter, and the season-to-date count per active against the resistance cap.

MRL & PHI checksPlans
05

Call the window, assign the pass

ORTH turns temperature, wind and humidity per farm into the clean window to apply, and alerts you when a planned window is closing. The pass goes to the crew as an assigned action and comes back to the record as done.

Spray windowsActions
What it is worth

Fewer passes, and no refused load.

Crop protection is the first job growers bring to ORTH on every crop except olive. The return depends on your pressure. Here is where it shows.

Fewer passes

Passes go on when pressure rises and are held when it does not. Each pass you hold is product not bought, one count less against the resistance cap, and a wider residue margin at harvest.

61%

Of surveyed growers use ORTH for crop protection, in every market surveyed, second only to nutrition. In the app it leads on every crop except olive.

Before the tank

Every application checked against the destination market’s residue limit and pre-harvest interval, and the buyer’s specification where it is tighter than the regulation.

Example

The diagnosis comes before the product name.

A grower asks which fungicide to use. ORTH first works out the likely target, the crop, the stage, the severity, the recent weather and the harvest window. It then names a candidate from your approved list, shows whether that exact use is cleared for the destination market or needs the label verified, holds it against the season-to-date count for that active, and puts the pass in the next clean window. “Weather for spraying: it told me to spray in the afternoon so as not to harm the bees.” Grower, Latin America.

Ask ORTH

What growers ask ORTH about crop protection.

Typed or spoken from the row, in your language. Answered from your plots, your weather, your analyses and your protocol, with the working shown.

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“Mildew scores went up on the grape block this week. Do I spray, and with what from our list?”
“Photo attached: spots on the citrus leaves. What is it, and what do I watch for?”
“How many times have we used this chemistry this season? Are we at the cap?”
“This block ships to the EU in three weeks. Which products are still cleared?”
“When is the clean spray window this week on farm 2?”
“Thrips are above threshold in the rose house. What rotation do I follow?”
The right plan

Run it as a team, or as a group.

Pick the plan that matches how you farm.

Field Teams
Field Teams

For a farm or a grower organisation.

Everyone on the operation works from the same plot record.

  • Scouting scores in. Spray windows, passes and MRL checks out.
  • Team chats with ORTH on every plot.
  • Actions assigned with an owner and a date. Field notes from the row.
  • Packs from $5,000 a year. Live in days.
Field Enterprise

For a group, a network and its growers.

A private instance running your protocols on every farm.

  • Your approved lists and destination markets enforced on every farm.
  • Your protocols behind every answer, on every farm.
  • A private instance. Your data, exportable at any time.
  • Validated by your own agronomists before rollout.
Connected

Crop protection works alongside.