September 3, 2025
You’ve seen how Phytech’s AI Advisor makes it easier to follow what’s happening in your crops. Now we’re taking a bigger step.
Meet Daisy - the world’s first agronomic AI agent that actually grows inside your field. (The name comes from Old English – “day’s eye” – the flower that opens with the sun. it kind of fits what we’re building: an intelligence that wakes with the field and watches over it).
Built on Phytech’s in-field data - plant, soil, fruit, climate, and irrigation — Daisy doesn’t just summarize. It answers your questions, highlights priorities, and helps you act with confidence.
In your Plant app (In the area), Daisy is ready with three simple prompts:
Give me today’s highlights
Which plots should I focus on?
Should I adjust my irrigation schedule?
For growers already using AI Advisor, Daisy means fewer taps, faster answers, and clearer focus every day.
For those new to Phytech, it’s the first real AI agent in farming — not a general model or guesswork, but intelligence rooted in the crop itself.
Daisy is here to help you spend less time digging for data, and more time making the right calls in the field.
Please note that Daisy will be available for Phytech customers, except in the following cases:
Customers whose season has not yet started (e.g. South Africa and Australia) - Daisy will only be open for crops irrigated year-round (citrus, avocado, macadamia).
Customers in the Midwest – Daisy is not yet available.
Coming soon:
Free text questions
Daisy on the web app
Click below to see Daisy:
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When water is limited, or fruit quality is on the line, deficit irrigation is one of the smartest tools in a grower’s arsenal. But like any sharp tool, it needs to be used with precision.
Here’s what deficit irrigation is and why it matters.
What Is Deficit Irrigation?
Deficit irrigation is the practice of intentionally giving crops less water than they’d typically receive during
select stages of development. The idea isn’t to deprive the plant, but to apply a mild, controlled stress that can slow vegetative growth or fruit expansion in ways that benefit the crop. Done well, this strategy can sharpen fruit quality, reduce disease pressure, conserve water, and even improve overall return on investment.
Take apples, for example. Overwatering mid-to-late season can lead to oversized fruit with low calcium, making them more vulnerable to bitter pit. In peaches, too much late-season water can result in soft texture and poor color. Deficit irrigation allows you to dial back just enough to get firmer fruit with better sugars and shelf life without hurting yields.
But timing and precision are everything.
Why It’s Hard to Get Right
Deficit irrigation walks a fine line. If you pull back too early or too hard, you’ll reduce yield, weaken trees, or trigger irreversible stress. If you underdo it, you miss the opportunity to guide fruit development or save water. Traditional methods like calendar-based schedules or ET models can’t capture the real-time plant response. That’s where Phytech comes in.
It’s worth noting that not all deficit irrigation is the same. Some approaches apply uniform stress throughout the season (known as sustained deficit irrigation). Regulated Deficit Irrigation (RDI) targets specific growth periods when crops are less sensitive to water stress. RDI is especially common in orchards and vineyards, where even small shifts in water timing can significantly impact fruit development. The key with RDI is knowing when crops can tolerate less water.
How Phytech Helps Growers Use Deficit Irrigation Effectively
1. Real-Time Stress Monitoring
Phytech uses dendrometers to measure the daily cycle of water use and replenishment in the tree. This data shows you exactly how much stress your trees are under, in real time.
You’ll know when the tree is bouncing back overnight, and when it’s not. That means you can fine-tune your irrigation to create just enough stress to limit excessive growth, without pushing the tree too far.
2. Nighttime Growth Insights
Most fruit cell expansion happens at night. If a tree is too hydrated at dusk, it goes into the night with high turgor pressure, and the fruit swells fast. That’s how you end up with fruit that’s big but soft or calcium-deficient.
Phytech shows you how hydrated the tree is at the end of each day. With that information, you can apply moderate, controlled water deficits during the day, so the tree enters the night with the right balance.
3. Fruit Sensors for Feedback
Phytech measures actual fruit growth. That means you’re watching the fruit itself respond to your irrigation strategy. Combined with deep soil moisture data across multiple root zones, you get the full picture.
4. Save Water Without the Guesswork
Deficit irrigation can save thousands of gallons of seasonal water use in many crops when applied correctly. Over the course of a season, growers can stretch limited water supplies. This adds up, especially in high-acreage orchards where even small daily savings translate into significant resource and cost reductions.
Phytech helps you identify windows of opportunity to save water so that you can protect the crop while protecting your resources.
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We're happy to share the newest features and improvements.
The AI Advisor has arrived to the mobile app
It’s been 3 months since we’ve launched the AI Advisor, now we’re happy to make it available on the mobile app as well.
An Intelligence that keeps on growing
The Phytech Advisor is a new personal irrigation advisor, that encompasses all of Phytech's "know-how" data and the agronomical season central marks for each crop, to provide a brief overview status of the block and the area.
The current output is a simple and clear agronomic summary of the block’s status (for a project view) or, in area view, a general summary —highlighting key insights for specific groups of blocks (e.g., blocks of a certain variety).
Availability:
Currently, all crops are active in the Northern Hemisphere except for row crops in the United States
Hydraulic overview UI improvement
What is it and why we built it:
We’ve made a small enhancement to the Hydraulic overview interface to improve usability. This change aims to make key hydraulic tools quicker and easier to access.
Usability:
When clicking the Hydraulic toggle, two new icons will now appear:
Component list icon – opens the list of hydraulic components
Diagram icon – opens the hydraulic diagram view
As part of this change, the component list icon was moved from the upper right corner to a more accessible location next to the Hydraulic toggle, alongside the new diagram icon.
Planner (web) A New Cooling Template
What is it:
Predefine, apply & automate cooling plans - The Planner's new cooling template feature helps users quickly create and reuse standardized cooling plans—saving time and ensuring consistent operation.
Benefits:
Save time – Set once, apply anytime
Prevent errors – Built-in smart defaults
Consistent execution – Standardized across components
How It Works:
Create a cooling template – Define a name, select components, and apply preset logic.
Schedule cooling – Set start/end times and apply the template to desired dates.
Planner (web): Create and Manage Groups
What is it:
Enable users to create and manage valve groups for efficient irrigation planning and execution.
Benefits:
Simplifies scheduling by grouping valves, reducing manual effort and improving irrigation control.
Key Functionalities:
Create, edit, copy, and delete valve groups.
Assign a leading valve for structured irrigation.
Drag-and-drop to adjust irrigation order.
Seamless integration with Planner Web scheduling.
Audience:
Farm managers, agronomists, and irrigation planners.
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May 30, 2025
What is it:
You can now view graphs for all hydraulic components on mobile — just like on the web. Tapping a component (from the list in Planner/Plant/Pivot, or directly from the map card in Plant) will open a detailed historical graph view:
Benefits:
Enables real-time and historical hydraulic insights on mobile without needing to access the web app.
Provides historical data views at daily, weekly, and monthly levels, just like the web app.
Improves operational efficiency by providing mobile access to critical hydraulic data anytime, anywhere.
Enhances user experience by ensuring data accessibility in the field.
You can switch between daily, weekly, and monthly views, and scroll back in time to explore past data:
That's it. See you on the next update
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November 18, 2024
Phytech has partnered exclusively with Suterra® to bring you the most advanced, cost-effective mating disruption solution on the market.
Sign up by December 31, 2024 and receive FREE installation of Puffers® and complimentary in-canopy temperature & humidity sensors!
Save time, money, and protect your crops.
Claim your offer here>> https://lnkd.in/gNJERAmU
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August 14, 2024
Smarter Together: Rivulis Irrigation and Phytech announce strategic partnership to advance sustainable agriculture. Rivulis, a global climate and irrigation leader, and Phytech, a pioneer in digital farming solutions, are excited to announce their new strategic partnership.
This collaboration represents a major step forward in sustainable farming, combining Rivulis' global presence and leadership in micro irrigation products and solutions with Phytech's cutting-edge real-time plant health and hydraulic monitoring and automation technology.
As part of the move Rivulis will integrate its cloud-based precision irrigation subsidiary, Manna Irrigation, into Phytech. Phytech’s data driven approach, initially focused on aiding agronomic decision-making through real-time plant/tree health monitoring, has gradually expanded into real time hydraulic monitoring and automation of grower’s irrigation and fertigation infrastructure, providing farmers with a comprehensive view of their entire irrigation and fertigation system and further improving efficiency and sustainability.
Rivulis’ CEO, Richard Klapholz, stated, “This partnership marks a pivotal moment for us at Rivulis as we join forces with Phytech to drive unprecedented advancements in agricultural technology. The integration of ReelView and Manna within Phytech enables a seamless digital journey for farmers, providing a tiered approach for farmers to integrate increasingly sophisticated ag-tech capabilities into their operations. Together, we are setting new standards for efficiency and sustainability in farming practices worldwide.”
Phytech’s CEO, Oren Kind remarked, “Our initial success in encouraging growers to adopt technology stemmed from addressing real needs, such as alleviating the loneliness of agronomic decision-making and enabling growers a real-time problem detection in their hydraulic systems. To make this initial success affect agriculture on a global scale requires us to partner with world leaders. Being chosen by Rivulis, one of the global leaders in the irrigation world, as their technology partner, is a significant milestone that will accelerate our ability to scale globally, helping growers embark on a much-needed digital transformation toward more sustainable and efficient practices”.
Manna’s CEO Hovav Lapidot added, “Joining hands with Phytech allows us to expand our technological capabilities and reach. Our shared vision for a smarter, better way of farming is now significantly closer to widespread adoption.”
Click to read the full announcement
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As the grape growing season intensifies, we are observing significant bloom and berry development in vineyards. Now is the crucial time to refine your irrigation and field practices to maximize your 2024 yields. Phytech empowers growers to monitor the real-time stress and health of their vines, as well as identify Lag Phase and Veraison onset earlier than traditional practices.
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May 28, 2024
As the grape growing season intensifies, we are observing significant bloom and berry development in vineyards. Your irrigation and field practice strategy is the difference-maker in boosting berry development. Ensure you’re on the right track by joining us for the Viticulture Webinar with Expert Cody Ashurst: Strategies to Boost Berry Development.
This Thursday! May 30th from 11:00-11:30 AM. Register Here >> https://lnkd.in/ghV6zauu
Topics will cover both Wine Grapes and Table Grapes…
- Monitoring Vine Health and Stress Status
- Monitoring Vine Growth, Trunk Growth, and Canopy Development
- Identifying Lag Phase and Veraison for Post Veraison Irrigation Strategies
- Live Q&A
This Thursday! May 30th from 11:00-11:30 AM. Register Here >> https://lnkd.in/ghV6zauu
Topics will cover both Wine Grapes and Table Grapes…
- Monitoring Vine Health and Stress Status
- Monitoring Vine Growth, Trunk Growth, and Canopy Development
- Identifying Lag Phase and Veraison for Post Veraison Irrigation Strategies
- Live Q&A
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April 25, 2024
Latam Territory Manager Ilan Liwski and the Peruvian team are helping local winegrowers transform digitally by connecting them to their vines and infrastructure via Phytech's IoT and Plant-AI platform.
"With the help of dendrometers, soil moisture probes, and irrigation sensors, our customers get real-time, accurate, data on the block level", says Liwsky, "Growers then get a clear picture of their vines' needs, and can deliver irrigation plans accordingly.
Plus: getting pressure alerts and pressure maps of each block helps ensure proper delivery, according to what was planned. As we keep expanding our customer base in South America, with different types of crops and farming operations, we feel fortunate to have forward-thinking growers that share our vision".
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