PerPlant raises 1M to put AI cameras on tractors, and 200,000 hectares in the bank

PerPlant builds a tractor-roof system with a camera and AI that decides which plants receive spraying. The company reports a 90% reduction in herbicide use and a 30% reduction in fertilizer use for an average Danish farm of about 200 hectares. It claims the system can pay back within a single growing season, with estimated annual savings around DKK 269,000 per farm. PerPlant states its sensors have covered more than 200,000 hectares of European farmland, creating a large precision-farming dataset. The on-tractor sensors provide 2–10 cm resolution compared with satellite imagery at 10–30 m. The resulting records are positioned as audit-grade documentation for regulators, insurers, and banks to verify spraying activity and compliance.

"PerPlant is one a farmer can grasp in a sentence: a box on the roof of the tractor, a camera looking at the field, an AI deciding which plant gets sprayed and which does not. The headline figure for the technology, as PerPlant tells it, is a ninety per cent reduction in herbicide use for an average Danish farmer with around 200 hectares of land. Fertiliser use drops by thirty per cent."

"The investor group, in materials circulated with the round, puts the saving at roughly DKK 269,000 a year per farm, enough to pay back the system inside a single growing season. What is harder to dispute is the dataset. PerPlant says its cameras have already covered more than 200,000 hectares of European farmland, a footprint it describes as nine times the combined coverage of every agricultural drone in Denmark and the largest precision-farming dataset in the Nordics."

"Where satellite imagery typically resolves at ten to thirty metres, PerPlant's on-tractor sensors resolve at two to ten centimetres. That is sharp enough, the company argues, to function as audit-grade documentation, the kind that banks, insurers and EU authorities can use to verify what was sprayed, where, and on what. Documentation is the part that matters commercially. European farmers are under regulatory pressure to cut chemical use and to prove they have done it."

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