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“I think the agriculture industry has the potential to become more efficient and deliver better outcomes to farms through basic LLMs—not even considering what potential breakthroughs will come,” said Shane Thomas.

“It’s clear the technology is here,” says Jason Weirich vice president of Agri Services at MFA Inc. “And it’s really up to us to figure out how this fits into our business and how we serve farmers.” 

"Together with our GROW Solutions Center, our technical agronomy expertise and direct ship opportunities, Landus can serve farmers across the greater Midwest," said Matt Carstens, president and CEO of Landus.

DropFlight is being offered exclusively to NAAA members for a one-time cost of $799 for unlimited use of the app.

Via the Growers’ App, KAS will promote companion and alternative products, and farmers can research products as well as place order requests directly to their retail partner.

“This is a powerful app designed to strengthen service providers’ relationships with growers by housing essential information in a single source,” says Ernie Chappell, president of Ever.Ag Agribusiness.

Insights include: Cost of production; Marketing position (sold vs. unprotected production); Profitability of grain sales based on current market price; Profit & loss at the farm, crop and field level

Growers Rally is a sales enhancement platform designed specifically to help ag retailers stand out in today’s competitive environment.

"We are committed to streamlining the work and efficiencies of our producers to ensure they get the information they need to increase their success," said Jeff Van Pevenage, CEO of Columbia Grain International.

For retailers using the Growers platform, when agronomic recommendations are created in FieldX, agronomists can then offer purchasing options for farmer customers.

Now partnering with more than 2,400 grain facilities in the U.S. and Canada, Bushel amped up its drumbeat to digitize the grain trail and kill the need for the traditional paper trail.

When one takes off agriculture’s rose-colored glasses, the reality is much of the industry’s technology has been held together with digital duct tape and baling wire.

This update re-imagines the app, incorporating new features, a clean, simplified design and a modern user interface.

This is a multi-year agreement jointly announced by both companies to improve agronomic outcomes. 

Mineral CEO Elliott Grant says, “Five years from now, I would hope the tools we imagine, a machine learning enabled co-pilot for example, is no more remarkable than using Google Maps for navigation.”

The app was launched on Dec. 1, and the company says while its launch was intentionally kept quiet, its growth and usage rate in the first month have propelled the company to bump up the expansion plans. 

After joining Corteva Agriscience over a year ago, Brian Lutz, vice president of agricultural solutions, is leading his team to make directional changes in their business.

Cover crops sequestered nearly three times as much greenhouse gas as the check fields. And acres with cover crops were carbon negative

By combining the platforms, users will get a streamlined accounting process for optimizing their equipment fleet and gain a better understanding of their equipment productivity, costs and replacement needs.

"While we have collected data about the adoption of FieldWatch registries since their launch, this is the first attempt to formalize it in a report showing progress since 2016," said Bob Walters, FieldWatch CEO

AgVend Digital Finance gives third-party finance providers the ability to take full advantage of the digital enablement solution by making services more accessible and available at a retailer’s digital point of sale.

“It was amazing to see how easy it was to set up a Wallet account,” Mike Hainline, grain merchandiser at ASB said.

Twenty months after its launch, Traction Ag has made its first acquisition. Corteva has sold its Granular Business software to the Traction Ag, which includes its farm management technology.

AMVAC first developed the SIMPAS application system as an extension of their SmartBox technology, and now that trajectory continues with ULTIMUS. 

After six months of “extensive” input from industry leaders, the council has decided, over the course of the next five years, $10 million will be dedicated to workforce and program development plans.

A new pest ID app designed by Iowa State University is the first of its kind for not only insect detection, but also suggested management practices that can help farmers rid their fields of unwanted pests.

The technology and machine marriage mean one or more driverless machines can operate in the field without an operator present in the cab.

Land O’Lakes is aiming to straighten the path for more farmers to adopt more regenerative practices across their acres, and in doing so building a wider funnel of farmers who could enroll in carbon markets.

The app, powered by Bushel, puts harvest in growers’ hands with real-time scale tickets, contracts, market information and more

Carl Kinghorn, who leads production for the ERP division of EFC Systems by EverAg, says it’s imperative for software to enable work to be done as it should be—not as it always has been.

The company branches out to provide crop consultants with a suite of tools: soil testing software, in-field automation and on-site soil analysis

Bringing 20-plus years of experience in digital agriculture and data science, John Raines joined Telus Agriculture & Consumer Goods as president in 2021 as it springboarded from a series of 11 acquisitions.

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In what AgVend co-founder and CEO Alexander Reichert calls, “a no-brainer” collaboration, WinField United retailers will now be able to streamline WinField United proprietary programs in the AgVend interface.

Corteva recently announced a business decision to discontinue Granular Agronomy, and will shut down the software, features and services on August 31, 2022

Now Bushel and EFC Systems’ Merchant Ag ERP software are integrated for real-time data flow. The two companies first integration EFC’s FieldAlytics with Bushel last year.

No more settlement checks in the mailboxes. Bushel continues to roll out its tools to digitize grain transactions for the industry and farmers.

Harley Rensing, a customer success manager at CommoditAg, joins The Scoop podcast to talk about supply chain constraints and how focusing on the customer experience is growing e-commerce and ag retailers’ businesses.

Heartland, a biotech company, says it has solved the Traveling Salesman Problem and intends to put the software in an app they’re calling ReMap that "saves farmers fuel and time.”

In order to get ahead of weeds, you need to know what weeds you’re up against. There are several weed identifying apps available, but how accurate are they? Researchers at MSU have the answers.

“The goal is to get beekeepers and producers registered through FieldWatch so applicators can get accurate information before spraying,” said Curt Hadley, Business Development Manager, FieldWatch.

Kendra Meisgeier, a precision ag specialist with River Valley Cooperative, talks about the first two years of the co-op’s grower portal,

The merger unites supply chain, agronomy, and risk management solutions for dairy, livestock, crops, and agribusiness into one unparalleled portfolio.

Growers, a North Carolina-based agriculture technology company, announced that after a year of testing, its flagship product Growers Rally is available for commercial use.

EFC Systems, Inc (EFC), a leading provider of ERP accounting and digital agronomy solutions for Ag Retailer / Service Providers, has secured a new investment that will enable both organic and inorganic growth.

Greater integration of data and technology on U.S. agricultural operations can help producers tell the story of their stewardship while identifying new ways to manage resources and participate in emerging opportunities.

“We need collaboration, shared vision and action," Liam Condon, member of the board of management of Bayer and president of Bayer Crop Science said in the company announcement.

Who has what products where and when are key questions swirling for the 2022 growing season and its required crop inputs.

AgVend co-founder of AgVend Alexander Reichert says this is another example of AgVend’s broader strategy to build its Grower Portal ecosystem to simplify the digital experience for growers.