ForwardFarming: Demonstrating Sustainable Agriculture in Chile (Slideshow)

Posted by Matt Hopkins|1 August 2018

The farms involved in Bayer ForwardFarming – the Bayer ForwardFarms – make use of three basic components:

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Agrícola La Hornilla Ltda. was established in 1986 in Melipilla, Chile.
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Agrícola La Hornilla grew to include Fundo Santa Inés in 2012.
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Agricola La Hornilla is managed by Cristián Allendes Marín.
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Proactive stewardship is a key component on Bayer ForwardFarms such as Agrícola La Hornilla.
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Crops produced at Agrícola La Hornilla include table grapes, cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines, and sunflowers.
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Platforms to facilitate and improve thinning, pruning, and harvesting, ensuring greater efficiency and safety in agricultural tasks, are a hallmark at Bayer ForwardFarms such as Agrícola La Hornilla.
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Crops produced at Agrícola La Hornilla include table grapes, cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines, and sunflowers.
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Cherries are one of six main crops grown under the Bayer ForwardFarming program at Agrícola La Hornilla in Chile.
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Crops produced at Agrícola La Hornilla include table grapes, cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines, and sunflowers.
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Peaches are one of six main crops grown under the Bayer ForwardFarming program at Agrícola La Hornilla in Chile.
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Real-time information on weather conditions assists in achieving the correct use of crop protection products and optimal irrigation at Agrícola La Hornilla.
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Water protection is a key focus at Bayer ForwardFarms like Agrícola La Hornilla. Pictured is the Phytobac system, which ensures contaminants cannot get into sewage systems or nearby bodies of water when spraying equipment is filled or cleaned on the farm.
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Another view of the Phytobac system at Agrícola La Hornilla. The system provides sustainable management of wastewater from cleaning equipment in a closed system that biologically breaks down crop protection product residues.
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Up close look at the Phytobac system at Agrícola La Hornilla.
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Agrícola La Hornilla employees are trained on the Bayer CropScience Phytobac system.
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Continuous pest monitoring allows accurate applications and only when necessary on Bayer ForwardFarms such as Agrícola La Hornilla.
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Maximizing user safety throughout all elements of crop protection with personal protective equipment is clearly evident at Agrícola La Hornilla.
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Efficient product application with electrostatic machines, which achieve better coverage, use less water, cause less drift, and increase user safety at Agrícola La Hornilla.
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Bayer ForwardFarming uses customized agricultural solutions with high quality seeds and crop protection products (chemical and biologicals) to protect the yield and quality of agricultural commodities, such as the grapes grown at Agrícola La Hornilla.
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The Bayer ForwardFarming program offers training to raise standards of handling and usage, as well as to minimize any possible risks to human health and the environment, at farms such as Agrícola La Hornilla.
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With Bayer ForwardFarming, on Agrícola La Hornilla, Bayer and farmers come together to demonstrate sustainable agriculture in practice.
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A Bayer ForwardFarming employee stands in one of the many orchards at Agrícola La Hornilla.

Customized Agricultural Solutions with high quality seeds and crop protection products (chemical and biologicals) to protect the yield and quality of agricultural commodities. These solutions are backed by tailored services ranging from agronomic support, field demonstrations, diagnostics, and prediction tools to documentation.
Proactive Stewardship to ensure product integrity (for seeds and crop protection products), protect human health, and preserve the environment. We offer training to raise standards of handling and usage, as well as to minimize any possible risks to human health and the environment.
Partnerships to enhance the quality of life for farmers, communities and society. Mutually beneficial partnerships that include all players in the value chain and help to leverage the potential for collaboration in modern agriculture.

View the photos in the slideshow above to see how Agricola La Hornilla in Chile is living up to the Bayer ForwardFarming program.