Farmers can put their farming information into the Ucrop.it platform either by entering it directly or sending it through an integration with other software.  |  File photo

Service guards farmers’ data

Glacier FarmMedia – Farmers are suspicious about sharing data, but a new company aims to assure farmers that they always have control over who buys, sells and uses it. Ucrop.it is an Argentine company that wants to be the platform that companies and organizations use to provide incentives to farmers for on-farm research and assurance […] Read more

Troy Prosofsky, FieldView rep with Bayer, introduces farmers Niko Mayer, Mark McNaughton and Derek Dery at a panel discussion at Ag in Motion last month.  |  Michael Robin photo

Farmers dig into data for dollars, efficiency

LANGHAM, Sask. — Derek Dery recalls parking the seeding equipment for the day, then pulling out a notepad to jot down the details of the day’s work in the fading light. “You’re trying to write a story in the dark,” says the founder and chief executive officer of Sixteen Grains, a farm-to-customer operation near Saskatoon. […] Read more



FieldView aims to simplify field data management for farmers by providing an online platform that can be accessed anywhere. It can unite data from each piece of precision farm equipment and makes the information more understandable through visualization and analysis tools. | Screencap via cropscience.bayer.ca

Combyne uses FieldView data to help market grain

Grain deliveries to be connected back to the fields they originated from and management choices made on those fields

Red Deer — Bayer is making it easier for farmers to track data from seeding to harvest, improving their ability to make better agronomic and marketing decisions. The company recently announced producers can now connect their agronomic data in Climate FieldView with their marketing data in Combyne, which was acquired by the company early in […] Read more

Microsoft’s Azure Data Manager for Agriculture is designed to connect farm data from disparate sources to help companies use their information to develop and improve their digital ag products. Bayer recently announced a new program called AgPowered Services that is licensed on Azure’s Data Manager for Agriculture. A customer of this new service is Bayer’s FieldView platform, which will use data from Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, including satellite and weather data, to help farmers watch out for potential yield-limiting factors in their fields.  |  Getty Images

Refining artificial intelligence data

Service connects farm data from disparate sources to help companies use it to develop and improve digital ag products

Microsoft's Azure Data Manager connects farm data from disparate sources to help companies use the information to develop and improve their digital ag products.