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FarmVu Inc., Three Hills, Alberta and GeoPard Agriculture, Cologne, Germany are pleased to announce their successful integration and partnership which combines creative telemetry and soil moisture sensing solutions with a powerful precision ag analytics platform.

Precision Ag consultants now have a flexible tool to connect, display, and automatically process ground sensor data collected with EM38, DualEM, or FarmVu’s soil moisture sensors. The integration of these technologies frees up hours of processing time for consultants. It offers them a powerful precision ag analytics platform to combine sensor data with satellite imagery, topography, yield, soil, as-applied data and analytics to create zone maps and prescriptions their clients can act on.

The use of sensor technology in agriculture is growing rapidly. The success of these technologies depends on our ability to connect, combine, and analyze multiple data layers, including sensor data, to create problem-solving solutions. At the same time, the process has to be simple, fun, and ignite creativity, so we all can find new ways to solve problems in agriculture. That makes the partnership between these two passionate teams a success, and one we can’t wait for users to try. 

About: FarmVu offers consultants, farmers and researchers field scale soil moisture sensing technology along with ground sensor telemetry solutions. Their powerful technology is helping customers optimize water use in dryland and irrigated cropping systems while simplifying the data collection process. 

GeoPard Agriculture team is excited to partner with Planet, the largest earth observation satellite network delivering a near-daily global dataset, to enable its high-resolution and high-frequency satellite imagery data to make Agriculture more sustainable. 

GeoPard expands its spatial agronomic modeling offering including the creation of accurate management zones for Variable Rate application,  multi-layer analytics, vegetation indices based on chlorophyll, and calculating stability zones based on the Planet imagery. 

With access to a near-daily imagery dataset, we at GeoPard will be able to provide VRA maps with the actual almost real-time biomass distribution.

Dzmitry Yablonski, GeoPard Director: “Planet data will enable GeoPard to increase the temporal and spatial resolution of satellite imagery for our clients to make accurate in-season decisions about fertilization, spraying. The value it provides, especially for small and medium-sized growers, is outstanding. We invest a lot in the automation of the creation of VR maps based on the Planet data. It enables accurate decision for soil sampling and variable rate application.”

“Planet’s partnership with GeoPard will enable and support agriculture customers to make informed business decisions due to the ability to monitor past and future data yields with our satellite imagery and it’s unprecedented detail”, says Jason Jones Planet’s EMEA Channel and Alliances Director. “We look forward to seeing what Planet’s data and archive married with GeoPards analytics brings to the unique customer base.”

GeoPard and Kernel signed an agreement to work on the application of digital solutions for sustainable agriculture. The collaboration started in the spring of 2020 with the sowing of cornfields at a variable rate based on GeoPard multi-layer maps.

“It is my pleasure to announce the cooperation with one of the largest Ukrainian agricultural company “Kernel” controlling more than 0.5 million hectares (1.2 million acres) of farmland. Ukraine is a major crop player with rich agricultural resources and strong potential. We are excited to provide innovative and effective solutions for holdings and service companies in the Black Sea region.” – Vladimir Klinkov, co-founder of GeoPard Agriculture.

“We are expanding our range of digital solutions through partnership with the GeoPard company. Over the past few years, we have been evaluating different methods for defining and using productivity zones. For large areas, analysis of long-term data on vegetation and yield maps is most suitable. Further, taking into account the productivity of the zones, we adjust the seeding rates and fertilizer rates.” – noted Yevgenii Sapizhenko, Deputy Agribusiness Director for Innovation and Digital Development.

Kernel – the world’s leading and the largest in Ukraine producer and exporter of sunflower oil, and a major supplier of agricultural products from the Black Sea region to world markets. Kernel exports its products into more than 80 countries of the world.

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We are excited to announce the partnership with Sure Growth Technologies Inc., professional consultants and passionate agronomists helping growers optimize valuable resources, based in Canada.

By providing coaching services that include Crop Planning, Fertility Planning, Soil and Tissue Testing, Variable Rate and Precision Agriculture Programs, In-Season Scouting Support, Sure Growth ensures profitable precision strategies built on sound agronomy and innovation.

Terry Aberhart, Founder and Agri-Coach said “We are always looking to improve and bring new tools and value to our clients and partners. We are excited to work with the GeoPard team and bringing attentional tools and opportunity to collaborate with other experts that are passionate about the work they are doing to move the industry forward.”.

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GeoPard Agriculture team is proud to cooperate with Pfeifer & Langen, top 3 sugar producer in Germany, on the digital transformation of processes related to sugar beet production and growth monitoring.

Pfeifer & Langen relies on GeoPard historical and in-season field productivity maps, stability maps, zones operations module and mobile application for scouting with support of off-line maps. All this helps to do smart scouting in order to accurately assess the sugar beet development.

Qualitative and smart solutions, a customer-centric approach, that is how long-term collaboration starts. Simon Luyven, Pfeifer & Langen project lead says “It is a pleasure to cooperate with Geopard. Not only the solutions are innovative, but also the service is excellent.”

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The agricultural business is teamwork.

Frequently it is necessary to share farm data with your ag consultant, agronomist, trusted advisor, farmer, colleague, or service provider. GeoPard has a very simple nevertheless powerful mechanism of sharing your farm data and all the underlying data we provide for you (Satellite monitoring, Zones, Topography) or you uploaded by yourself (Soil data, Yield data, other ingested data layers).

An owner of a farm can give access to it in the “User Profile” -> “Share” section. You put your colleagues’ email and we share the farm and all the data under the farm with another GeoPard account.

An owner of a farm can revoke access at any time by clicking the “Stop sharing” button under the “User Profile” -> “Share” section.

A user who has been shared a farm has some kind of a “read” access to the farm and fields under it. It means that the user, for example, can’t delete the farm. But he is free to delineate new management zones or any other analytics. It can be very useful when you do collaborative preparation of Management zones for planting/fertilizing/spraying.

All GeoPard URLs are bookmarkable, it means that a URL fully contains the state of the application. After you share any GeoPard’ URL with your colleague, he will see exactly the same state of the map that you shared.

With GeoPard Agriculture all the data is under your control and at your fingertips for spatial analysis and Rx files creation.

Art on the field!

In this example, GeoPard’s heterogeneity factor is high when the field is partially not seeded, which means more heterogeneity is within the field. This example shows that it works extremely accurately.

A higher heterogeneity factor (GeoPard’s unique index) shows a higher level of heterogeneity within the field → more sense to start to use #precisionAg and Variable Rate technologies.

It is an exciting way to start 2020 joining an innovation platform and community – Foodhub NRW. It connects players in the agricultural and food industry from the field to the shelf in order to jointly develop future-oriented solutions for the industries.

Rethinking food innovation and proactively shaping the future of AgTech together!

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