The Kurouno Agricultural Research Society experienced issues in understanding soil conditions underneath seedlings in order to achieve stable cultivation of its agricultural products. Increasing productivity during the winter season (increasing shipment volumes) and stabilizing shipments during the shipping season (November until June of the following year) would significantly impact revenue.
Adequately understanding and controlling conditions both above and below seedlings is a requirement to achieving stable harvests. The society could not adequately visualize conditions within the soil, however, so it could only use the condition of field surfaces to determine causes that negatively impact seedlings.
Farmers need soil sensors to adequately understand soil conditions underneath seedlings so that they can take suitable preventative countermeasures at earlier stages. However, they have had various issues with the accuracy and control conditions of soil sensors used to date. For example, Japanese products are reliable, but require a lot of preparation before use.
Terrace Mile, which offers agricultural data analysis, sensed a problem that could be solved and sought to create a groundbreaking new product.
The Kurouno Agricultural Research Society needed to understand soil conditions underneath its seedlings to achieve stable harvests, and Terrace Mile faced issues with the level of control and accuracy of conventional soil sensors.