11.06.2025; Reading time: 3 min; Author: Wolfgang Gerstenhauer
Smart Spraying: Precise plant protection – rethought
Modern smart spraying systems deliver crop protection products precisely where they are needed – with less effort and without compromising on effectiveness, yield or crop quality. The result is more efficient applications, healthier plants and a lower environmental impact. What was once future technology is now tried and tested reality. But there are still persistent misconceptions about digital crop protection solutions. We want to clear them up.
FACT CHECK AGRICULTURE
5 misconceptions about smart crop protection technology – and what’s really true.
ERROR 1: “Smart crop protection technology replaces crop protection products.”
❌Wrong.
✅Right: Smart crop protection technology does not replace the need for crop protection – it makes it smarter, more targeted and more sustainable. CLEVERSPRAY takes application to a new level: automatic section control, adaptive pressure control, nozzle monitoring, headland detection and digital documentation ensure precise application.
SMARTFAN supplements the system with individually controllable blower modules that can be controlled depending on the structure – with high efficiency and minimal drift. CLEVERVISU makes even manual sprayers digitally visible and automatically documents every application.
The overall result is sure to make you spray with joy: less effort, fewer losses, less drift – and still full effect. Smart spraying protects the environment, your health and, above all, your budget.
ERROR 2: “Digital means that everything runs automatically, but completely uncontrolled.”
❌ Wrong.
✅ It is true that digital agricultural technology stands for maximum control – not loss of control. With CLEVERSPRAY you can, for example, plan your crop protection measures in detail in advance in the farmunited CLOUD and control them with high precision and reproducibility. In the field, you can keep an eye on all processes in real time – and intervene at any time. Digital means: you keep everything under control – only more precise, simpler, better.
ERROR 3: “Smart crop protection systems are far too complicated for daily practice.“
❌Wrong.
✅It’s true: smart crop protection doesn’t have to be complicated – some systems can even be retrofitted to existing devices.
With CLEVERSPRAY from farmunited, for example, you can automatically switch sections, adjust the spraying pressure and document applications digitally – directly from the tractor. SMARTFAN enables targeted air flow depending on the plant structure, and CLEVERVISU even digitizes manually operated spraying machines. So even for these machines you can use CLEVERVISU to upgrade your digital documentation. With the smart crop protection products from farmunited, the opposite is therefore true: smart crop protection with farmunited is easy to use, gives you much more precision and effectiveness, but leaves you in full control.
ERROR 4: “Smart farming is total surveillance.”
❌Wrong.
✅It’s true: farmunited systems only document the application – and only if you want them to. The use of digital functions such as geofencing or spray documentation is optional. All systems can also be operated completely offline. CLEVERSPRAY automatically detects defective nozzles, for example, and thus supports your work quality – not your monitoring. Very important and typical for farmunited: Your data belongs only to you. farmunited places the highest value on data protection and your data sovereignty. We do not simply pass on your crop protection data.
ERROR 5: “CLEVERSPRAY & Co. – that’s just digital game stuff.”
❌Wrong.
✅It’s true: farmunited’s systems are anything but gimmicks. They are tried and tested tools for professionals. CLEVERSPRAY regulates the application rate automatically and adapts to the driving speed. SMARTFAN directs air specifically to where it is needed – depending on the structure and plant height. CLEVERVISU makes even analog devices digitally visible. This is high-tech with real added value every single working day – for better results, more efficiency and a more responsible use of crop protection products.
Our conclusion on smart crop protection technology in agriculture
Modern crop protection technology is anything but a digital gimmick, but an indispensable prerequisite for the economic efficiency and sustainability of your crop protection applications. Investing in precision today not only saves on expensive crop protection products, but also improves their effectiveness, reduces losses – and protects what counts: Plants, soil, the environment and, above all, your income.
Curious?
Find out in your own company how CLEVERSPRAY, CLEVERVISU and SMARTFAN make your plant protection more precise, safer and more economical – even under difficult conditions.
Or visit our tried-and-tested plant protection trio in the farmunited-Shop!
