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The company says Raines will continue to develop its strategy focusing on how to digitally enhance food quality, security and availability with real-time data. 

Farmer Mac and Indigo will leverage the Ag-Analytics and AcreValue platforms as a channel to further their respective lending and carbon services markets.

“This gives us the opportunity to continue to build out the digital infrastructure needed in U.S. agriculture,” says co-founder of Bushel Jake Joraanstad.

Tracy Linbo with Growers Edge says fintech tools can give farmers confidence to use new products and services.

“Our collaboration with CropTrak accelerates in-depth agronomic data collection from our farmer partners, increasing our ability to benchmark and provide verifiable sustainability metrics,” said Jason Bull

Semios CEO Michael Gilbert says the company is aiming to deliver a single login for centralized crop management data into one, easy-to-use, end-to-end solution.

A week after the acquisition was announced, Wade Barnes gave a one-on-one interview to provide further details. John Demerly also spoke to The Scoop.

For almost 10 years, Nutrien has provided the eKonomics tools to help retailers and growers have conversations around optimizing their agronomic decisions, and it's now expanded to be available on a mobile app.

Under the terms of the deal, CommoditAg will function as a wholly owned subsidiary of Farmers Edge led by the existing CommoditAg leadership team.

“There’s real science around soil health, and this is a way retailers can have meaningful impact without directly selling anything,” says Dr. Jennifer Wells, Senior Agronomist and Account Manager at Truterra.

"Our biggest advantage is building everything around a mobile environment," said Jeff Dearborn, Traction’s Business Development Director.

Proagrica has launched the Sirrus Suite of products for farmers and agronomists. This extends the functionality beyond iOS, to also include Android (currently available in Beta) and to a new web app

Rabobank and TELUS Agriculture’s vision is to deliver an even more robust Conservis platform to drive value for farms across a diverse range of crops and livestock.

Nebraska’s Frontier Cooperative one of the first users of this integration

The Andersons and CGB join Cargill, Scoular, Continental Grain Company, Lewis & Clark AgriFood, Germin8 Ventures and others that are investing in the provider of software technology.

U.S. President Joe Biden wants the Federal Trade Commission to limit the ability of farm equipment manufacturers to restrict tractor owners from using independent repair shops or complete some repairs on their own.

Steve Turetsky, Director of Agriculture Solutions at AgEagle, sees many different avenues for drone use and unique applications.

Agrian founder and CEO Nishan Majarian shares an update on the company since it was acquired as part of the group to form Telus Agriculture.

"Our AGI SureTrack customers will benefit greatly from our new partnership with Bushel," stated Tim Close, President & CEO of AGI.

Variable rate dry fertilizer acres have increased from 4,000 in 2015 to 45,000 acres in 2021. 

In customer metrics, it means 30% more share of wallet.

In 13 months, all three crop protection label databases have been acquired by ag software and tech companies

“It was hard to get the settlements process right, for example, but we did it,” CEO Jeff Schreiner says. “We can say we provide a seamless integration. It’s all baked in.”

"This is not about replacing our trusted advisors out there. It’s about enhancing the customer experience,” said Growmark Executive Director of Digital Strategy Keith Milburn.

Undoubtedly, the term “fitness” has become engrained as part of today’s societal norms. Just as it is with personal health, the same motivation should hold true when evaluating the health of a farm

“We heard the farmers loud and clear last year, and it changed the product road map,” Tillable CEO Corbett Kull. “We changed the way we approach the market not only to landowners but to growers."

After the acquisition Proagrica plans to continue to operate CDMS as a trusted, independent data source to be used across the industry.

“DeltAg products give farmers versatility and assist plants at each critical stage of development,” John Demerly, CEO, CommoditAg.

Brett Bruggeman joins The Scoop podcast to talk about the company’s performance warranty, financing programs, decision ag tools, and supply chain initiatives.

A farm-centric innovation model has been the focus of the AgLaunch and Farm Journal Row Crop Challenge to aide early-stage agtech startups to solve on-farm problems.

“Ag retail sits at the digital crossroads between input suppliers and the farm gate. With robust integrations, we can centralize information to create efficiencies and eliminate redundancies," says Alexander Reichert.

The announcement of TMC taking ownership stake in FieldReveal piggybacks an announcement earlier this year where the two entities announced a partnership which includes AgWorks, which is owned by TMC.

The partnership aims to equip landowners and operators with access to digital and agronomic resources designed to support daily operations, improve sustainability, and create a seamless digital connection

The Nutrien online digital portal has seen successful use. In the first three quarters of 2020, Nutrien reports more than $1 billion in sales via its digital portal–double their goal for the entire year of 2020.

Thad Armbruster joins The Scoop podcast to detail how Telus Agriculture views the future of digitizing agriculture.

John Deere leaders said this acquisition target illustrates its goal to provide technology that provides for its farmer customers to make data-driven decisions. 

Your business should have a firm grasp on your customers as a foundation for a digital strategy. Leadership will be key to success.

“MarketVision will enable smarter grain marketing decisions through simple software based on agronomic data science and market analysis," said John Demerly, CEO, CommoditAg.

AgVend will solely focus on the grower portals and will sunset its existing Marketplace product—the product the startup launched the company with.

The acquisition serves Nutrien Ag Solutions’ goal of making “hard things easier” says Sol Goldfarb

Net Irrigate will join Lindsay's FieldNET brand of remote irrigation monitoring and control solutions.

The companies emphasize it’s the farmer’s choice to share data from FieldView to the cloud-based Data Silo, and for those who do, it will unlock new capabilities in analyzing their agronomic data.

Nutrien Ag Solutions PCAs and scouts will be actively monitoring insect traps throughout the Salinas Valley while FMC Arc farm intelligence will visualize that data as detailed maps on a proprietary mobile app.

Jason Weller, Vice President of Truterra at Land O’Lakes, testified in late June to the Senate committee on agriculture, nutrition and forestry regarding The Growing Climate Solutions Act.

This year, SeedFieldCheck will be piloted in Iowa to help seed companies communicate the location and presence of seed field workers to pesticide applicators

Arc farm intelligence is the first mobile platform to use predictive modeling based on real-time data to place the right crop protection products precisely where and when they are needed.

“We are bringing a technology solution for some of the manual things shippers and carriers do,” says Roger CEO Jeff Schreiner. “We streamline communication and paperwork.”

Here’s a roundup of technologies aiming to improve on the process of traditional stand counts by layering algorithms, artificial intelligence and remote sensing.

With this integration, CropZilla will have the entire suite of Razor Tracking’s platform available to customers to provide real-time vehicle and asset data in addition to their crop and fertilizer digital farm models.

On Thursday's AgriTalk, John Raines shared how the timing of field work this spring coinciding with COVID-19’s spread has led to more farmers using more technology.