AgriGuide in the News



News article highlighting AgriGuide published in French newspaper l’Opinion

We are delighted to share that an article highlighting AgriGuide has been published in the prominent French newspaper l’Opinion. The article discusses the evolution of agricultural technologies, including the development of sprayers with sensors that enable precise application of resources. Anne Alix, Policy Leader at Corteva as well as AgriGuide core team member, emphasises the need for integrating precision agriculture into European assessments to meet societal demands for more economical use of phytosanitary products and resources. The article also details how AgriGuide aims to equip farmers with a user-friendly digital label system, streamlining compliance and data management to enhance efficiency and sustainability in farming practices.

Interested to read more?

You can access the full article via this link.

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Transformation Office Update



Progress Update: Expanding Digitisation Across Europe

Our pilot countries—Romania, Italy, and Germany—continue to spearhead our digitisation efforts, with an increasing number of countries joining the initiative. Alongside Spain, Ireland, France, and the countries in the Northern zone, we are thrilled to announce the successful onboarding of several additional nations. This includes Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Austria, Portugal, and Poland from country groups 2 and 3. Furthermore, the onboarding process for group 4—comprising Belgium, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Netherlands—has also commenced and is progressing steadily. As a result, nearly all 27 EU countries are now part of this transformative project! In parallel, our technical sessions are advancing well, and the digitisation of labels has begun across the non-pilot countries.

From the Technical Corner


Work packages and releases

As part of a review of our activities, we are shifting the language we use about our chunks of work. The larger chunks we’ll begin to refer to as work packages 1, 1.5 and 2. The smaller monthly or bimonthly updates to the AgriGuide platform and apps we’ll continue to call releases. This becomes increasingly important as we progress through 2025, with each release delivering parts of work package 1 and work package 1.5. Simultaneously, we are scaling out across the other countries in Europe and supporting the digitisation of labels by each of the countries that have come on board.

Scaling out

Although simple in concept, scaling out involves more than taking the platform structure and replicating the core for each country, because each is slightly different. With the Transformation office, we have developed a standard onboarding process that each country goes through, setting the country working group up with a deeper knowledge of the project structure and technical approach, and allowing the technical team to understand the details of each country’s labels and reference terms. As an output, we get a set of reference labels and a ‘Rosetta stone’ documenting the overall mapping between the local label structure and the AgriGuide platform label data model.

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(Small) Mode lupdate v1.1

In the 10 months since upgrading AgriGuide to label data model v1.0, a set of small changes has been accumulating in a ‘backlog’, including specific object properties and minor extensions to support specific needs that have emerged from the pilot countries and the first wave of the scale-out countries. These, after reviewing and careful prioritisation, gave more than 20 items. Some are technical reconfiguration or background work; some add property qualifiers, and a few extend the model in a helpful way. The whole package is v1.1, and is intended to be delivered as a combined model, platform and app update, plus scripted label updates where practical. It will enter testing and UAT in June, with release shortly afterwards.

Simple application record keeping

The AgriGuide team is working on developing an additional functionality to the existing label consultation application to allow farmers and pesticide users to declare and keep record of plant protection product within the 1107 regulation. We recently completed a mockup, which will be shared with a limited number of end users in Germany and Spain for feedback before starting to develop the final application version.

June 2025 will be mainly focusing on testing and collecting feedback to improve the application design before developing coding and testing steps.

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Continued Support from the Industry

CropLife Europe is fully committed to the AgriGuide project.

AgriGuide represents a significant commitment and investment for CropLife Europe and its members. As part of the routine annual organisational evaluation process the CropLife Europe leadership has recognised the outstanding work and progress of the AgriGuide team and its partners, and has confirmed continued support for investment in the project, both in terms of allocated expert time, and in financial resourcing. 

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Presenting AgriGuide

Highlights from the Franco-Belgian AGRIFOOD Summit:

A Step Towards Sustainable Agriculture

We were thrilled to take part in the Franco-Belgian AGRIFOOD Summit, organised by CCI FRANCE BELGIQUE, where industry leaders, innovators, and policymakers gathered to explore the future of sustainable agriculture. At the event, we showcased AgriGuide through live demonstrations, highlighting our innovative process of scanning a 2D matrix code on a paper label for Plant Protection Products. This scan provided immediate access to comprehensive product information, empowering farmers to use pesticides and bio pesticides correctly and confidently.

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We were especially honoured to welcome Belgium’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture, David Clarinval, alongside Diego Canga Fano, Acting Deputy Director-General of DG Agri at the European Commission, to our stand. We value the insightful discussions we had with them. Our gratitude goes to everyone who visited our booth. We look forward to further meaningful conversations and collaborations to shape the future of agriculture together.

AgriGuide What’s Next

Looking Ahead: Strategic Workshops and Team Development

This month, we’re hosting a comprehensive full-day workshop in Brussels, bringing together key members of the AgriGuide sub-team alongside our valued collaborating partners.

Following this, we’ll conduct an in-depth workshop with the AgriGuide sub-team during the latter part of June. This strategic session will provide an opportunity to thoroughly review our substantial achievements over the past few months of 2025, assess our current positioning, and refine our roadmap for the remainder of the year.