mYard - Soil Protection & Optimised Inputs

Opportunity Overview

The agrifood sector increasingly requires data-driven, climate-resilient farming practices to maintain productivity while reducing environmental impact. However, many farms lack historical data or precision monitoring tools to understand field variability, soil degradation, erosion risks, and optimal input allocation.

The mYard solution combined with the DRONATION program by mYields offers a scalable precision-agriculture service that enables farmers to map, analyse, and manage their fields using satellite data, drone-based surveys, and advanced modelling. The combined approach generates actionable field intelligence for soil protection, input optimisation, and sustainable crop production strategies.

The Challenge

Agricultural fields are rarely homogeneous, with variations in soil fertility, slope, moisture, and productivity across small areas. Without detailed field analysis, farmers often apply uniform fertilisation and management practices, leading to inefficient input use, erosion, or reduced yield potential.

Additionally, many farms lack historical yield maps or data infrastructure, making it difficult to adopt precision agriculture technologies.

The Proposed Solution

The mYard platform analyses farmland using multi-year satellite imagery and modelling to divide fields into soil and production management zones, identifying areas of critical, low, average, and high productivity potential. This enables farmers to implement zone-based crop strategies, targeted soil sampling, and optimised fertiliser application.
The DRONATION program complements this with drone-based surveys that produce high-resolution orthomosaics and 3D terrain models (≈5 cm resolution). These models identify erosion risks, slopes, drainage patterns, and waterlogging zones, allowing farmers to redesign field layouts and optimise nutrient application maps.

Data from drone flights are processed within 1–3 days and integrated into the mYard analytics system, creating a digital twin of agricultural fields for ongoing decision-making.

Innovation and Value for Agrifood SMEs

The integrated solution provides SMEs in agriculture and agrifood services with:

Rapid field intelligence without historical farm data

Drone-based 3D modelling of farmland topography

Precision fertilisation and density maps

Soil-protection strategies to minimise erosion

Reduced fertiliser use and environmental footprint

Improved yield stability and farm profitability

The platform also enables service-based business models, where agritech SMEs, consultants, or cooperatives can deliver precision agriculture services using the mYard analytics environment.

Expected Impact

By combining satellite analytics, drone mapping, and precision agronomy models, the mYard + DRONATION approach supports the transition toward sustainable, data-driven agriculture.

It contributes to:

Reduced fertiliser overuse and nutrient leaching

Soil health preservation and erosion mitigation

Improved crop productivity through zone-specific management

Digital transformation of small and medium-scale farms

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