The Climate Corporation Unveils Most Robust R&D Pipeline in Digital Agriculture
January 05 2017 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
The Company Also Announces New Global Expansion Plans For Its
Industry-Leading Climate FieldView™ Digital Ag Platform
The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company (NYSE:
MON), today unveiled for the first time more than 35
projects in its research and development pipeline. The company also
announced plans to expand its industry-leading Climate FieldView™
digital agriculture platform into new international geographies
over the next few years. Climate’s announcement follows Monsanto’s
annual R&D pipeline update.
The company is sharing an unprecedented level of detail on its
R&D pipeline, which is the broadest and most robust in the
digital agriculture industry. “The digital ag industry continues to
accelerate rapidly as more farmers experience the value data-driven
digital tools can bring their operations,” said Mike Stern, chief
executive officer for The Climate Corporation. “At Climate,
constant innovation has been paramount to the delivery of our
Climate FieldView platform that’s helping thousands of farmers
unlock the value of their field data to enhance productivity. Our
commitment to innovation is reflected in the breadth and depth of
our R&D pipeline, and we will continue to expand the geographic
availability of our tools to deliver new digital technologies to
farmers across the globe.”
The science behind the company’s widely adopted Climate
FieldView platform leverages data from the soil, field and
atmosphere to help farmers better understand field variability and
customize their agronomic practices to get the most out of every
acre.
“There’s a tremendous opportunity for farmers to maximize their
yield potential by tailoring their management practices to address
field variability,” said Sam Eathington, chief scientist for The
Climate Corporation. “Farming at the zone level is the new reality.
Climate is already delivering advanced seed scripting and
zone-level nitrogen monitoring capabilities, and our robust
research pipeline ensures we will continue to provide farmers
actionable insights to help them operate more efficiently and
sustainably, while supporting all of the key decisions they have to
make each year to optimize yield.”
Climate R&D Pipeline
Highlights
Seeds & Planting Product Selection - Placing the
right seed in the right location is critical to achieving optimal
yield. Through the collection and analysis of millions of data
points on seed product performance across many geographies,
Climate’s seed product selection research is designed to help
farmers select the most ideal seed products for their fields.
Fertility Prescriptions - To help farmers efficiently
manage fertility and maximize productivity, Climate is working to
develop variable rate prescription tools for nitrogen, phosphorus
and potassium. With these tools, Climate expects to provide the
industry’s first comprehensive fertility solution, delivering
customized insights for crop nutrition and fertility management,
tailored to farmers’ unique goals.
Field Health - Disease Insights - Climate’s field health
R&D is focused on providing data that helps farmers see what’s
happening in each field, prioritize in-season crop management, and
use satellite imagery and other field data to make input decisions
for the next season. Climate’s field health research includes a
package of disease insights aimed at identifying and predicting
disease vulnerability, as well as diagnosing key crop diseases
using artificial intelligence capabilities. A first for the digital
ag industry, Climate is also developing a new directed scouting
tool to help farmers understand which fields to prioritize during
scouting, helping them save time and protect their yield before
it’s impacted at the end of the season.
In less than two growing seasons, the Climate FieldView platform
has quickly become the most broadly connected platform in the
United States and has continued to expand into new global regions,
including recent expansion into Canada and Brazil. In November, the
company acquired VitalFields, a European farm management software
company based in Tallinn, Estonia, marking the company’s first step
into the European market. The company plans to bring the Climate
FieldView platform to Europe, South Africa, Australia and Argentina
over the next few years.
Officially launched in 2015, the Climate FieldView platform is
on more than 100 million acres across the United States and Brazil,
with more than 100,000 U.S. farmers engaging in Climate's digital
tools. Backed by the most powerful data science engine and most
extensive field research network in the agriculture industry, the
Climate FieldView platform delivers customized insights that help
farmers make data-driven decisions with confidence to maximize
yield potential, improve efficiency and manage risk.
To learn more about the Climate FieldView platform, contact your
local Climate dealer or visit climate.com.
About The Climate Corporation
The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, aims
to help all the world's farmers sustainably increase their
productivity through the use of digital tools. The integrated
Climate FieldView™ digital agriculture platform provides farmers
with a comprehensive, connected suite of digital tools. Bringing
together seamless field data collection, advanced agronomic
modeling and local weather monitoring into simple mobile and web
software solutions, the Climate FieldView platform gives farmers a
deeper understanding of their fields so they can make more informed
operating decisions to optimize yields, maximize efficiency and
reduce risk. For more information, please visit www.climate.com or
follow the company on Twitter@climatecorp.
About Monsanto Company
Monsanto is committed to bringing a broad range of solutions to
help nourish our growing world. We produce seeds for fruits,
vegetables and key crops – such as corn, soybeans, and cotton –
that help farmers have better harvests while using water and other
important resources more efficiently. We work to find sustainable
solutions for soil health, help farmers use data to improve farming
practices and conserve natural resources, and provide crop
protection products to minimize damage from pests and disease.
Through programs and partnerships, we collaborate with farmers,
researchers, nonprofit organizations, universities and others to
help tackle some of the world's biggest challenges. To learn more
about Monsanto, our commitments and our more than 20,000 dedicated
employees, please visit: discover.monsanto.com and monsanto.com.
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