b'where they physically visit fields every other week with a studentover a robot track system which measures the length, size group for crop scouting. distribution and water weight of the tubers.After this data has been processed. We can actually compare(In) our storage room, we exactly know from every it with all the sensor information. And we make growing algo- square meter, which trailer, which field but also which size, rithms, fertilization algorithms, variable plant algorithmswedistribution, which length and which starch level. And we now have algorithms in place for all those things to figure out whatbuilding a database that we are able to actually deliver what the best options should be. our customers want, he says.Once fall hits they start harvesting the crops. They have aAfter harvest they start fertilizing the fields again and harvest yield mapping system on their self-propelled potato har- then plant cover crops. The cover crops are then killed and vester. A weighting cell is mounted on the machine and gives themulched into the soil for fertilization starting the cycle operator real time data as spuds are dugthis allows them to beover again. able to track the quality of the crops from the fields. This cycle is an ongoing cycle, and we will never be done From the field the potatoes go into storage, which is wherewith precision farming because every year we layer, we learn tracking them gets tricky, van den Borne says. All the potatoesnew things, we figure out new things, and we try out new are stored in a big room, when they are unloaded, they are runalgorithms, van den Borne explains.EUROPEAN-SEED.COMIEUROPEAN SEED I 35'