Tensorfield

Tensorfield Agriculture is pioneering the commercial adoption of thermal micro dosing for weed control in vegetable crops.

Based on research from the University of California, Davis and the University of Bonn-Landtechnik, we eradicate weeds using only heated vegetable oil.

Our machines operate semi-autonomously, with each machine plus operator equal to the throughput of a 40-person hand crew.

• No Soil Disturbance
  We don’t break the soil crust, effective in all soil types without damaging your keeper crops
• ½ Inch Precision
  Our thermal-micro dosing sprayer enables us to kill weeds in densely planted beds with ½ inch precision
• Organic Approved
  We use only heated vegetable oil to kill weeds – no extensive herbicide inventory required

Thermal micro-dosing is a method of weed control in which extremely small doses of very hot vegetable oil are applied to post-emergent weeds in the most weed-challenged areas such as within the seedline of dense crop stands.

The reason that thermal micro-dosing works so well is the same reason why hot oil will produce more severe burns than open flames in a kitchen. Heated oil and other sources of “wet heat” such as steam and boiling water impart much more energy than sources of dry heat such as propane burners. This heat energy penetrates the meristematic cells of young weed plants, either killing them outright or severely stunting their growth to allow a competitive crop canopy to form above them.