Why growers and agronomists choose GeoPard
GeoPard turns satellite, soil, yield, topography and machinery data into management zones and prescriptions. We sell no seed, fertilizer or chemistry, so nothing in a map we build steers you toward a product. The same team has been writing zoning software since 2012.
✓ We sell no seed, fertilizer or chemistry
✓ Exports to any brand of machine
✓ Zoning software since 2012
Your data stays yours, and leaves with you
Independence
What independence means in practice
Most analytics in this industry is attached to something being sold. Ours is not, and here is what that changes for you.
We sell no inputs
Our revenue is the subscription, not a bag of seed. A zone map here is built from your layers and nothing else, so when it says lower the rate on the sand ridge, that is the data talking.
No input manufacturer and no equipment maker holds a stake in the company. FlyPard Analytics GmbH is registered in Germany and owned by the people who build the platform.
Your data stays yours
You keep ownership of every boundary, yield file and lab result you upload. We do not sell it, trade it, or use it to point you at a product. Close the account and the data leaves with you.
Storage and processing run on AWS in certified data centres. Sharing a farm with an advisor or a dealer is your decision, and you can withdraw it.
Any brand of machine
Prescriptions leave as shapefile, ISOXML, and John Deere Operations Center work plans, with a bi-directional sync for growers who run that hub.
The terminal in the cab does not decide which analytics you are allowed to run, and a mixed fleet is the normal case, not an exception.
The team
The people doing the work
Trade show stands in Hanover, university lecture halls in Kyiv, and the edge of a wheat field in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Founders and team
With clients, students and research partners
History
From one zoning tool in 2012 to the platform you can open today
Two tracks, year by year: who we started working with, and what shipped.
Before GeoPard, the work that led to it
Business
- Zoner, a web platform for building management zones, and its PowerZones product.
- Close work with AgriTrend, then the largest network of independent agronomic consultants in North America.
- Zones built for more than a million acres across the United States, Canada and the EU.
- 2015: Zoner acquired by Bayer.
- 2015 to 2018: technical management and development of Bayer’s new digital farming platform.
What we learned
- Consultants will not use a zoning tool that argues with their agronomy. The map has to be explainable, layer by layer.
- Every grower arrives with a different pile of file formats, and the platform has to read all of it without a phone call.
- Analytics tied to a product catalogue gets distrusted the first time it recommends that catalogue. That is why GeoPard sells none.
GeoPard starts
Business
- FlyPard Analytics GmbH founded in Germany.
- US patent granted for the automated creation of management zones.
- Agritechnica 2019: named in the top five innovative startups.
- World Agri-Tech, San Francisco.
- First clients, all of them independent ag advisors.
- Pricing by the hectare.
Product
- Platform launch: automated satellite imagery analytics and field potential maps.
Beyond advisors
Business
- Grant from the NRW Stipendium programme.
- First food production companies, among them Pfeifer & Langen.
- First agriholdings, among them Kernel.
- First John Deere dealers, among them Hutson Inc.
Product
- Topography and LIDAR analytics.
- Machinery data: planting, harvest and as-applied.
- High-density soil scanner data, including SoilOptix, TopSoilMapper and FarmVU.
- Scouting module.
Into the cab
Business
- Work with Corteva, a global agricultural input company.
- Credit-based pricing alongside the per-hectare plan.
- Integration with John Deere Operations Center.
Product
- Mobile apps with offline scouting and soil sampling.
- Merge and split tools for adjusting zones by hand.
- Four data layers compared side by side, live.
- Deeper John Deere Operations Center sync.
Multi-layer, and the first research project
Business
- Collaboration with Origin Digital, an ag input and service company.
- Cooperation with the Iowa Soybean Association.
- More ag consulting groups on the platform.
- RootCamp agtech accelerator.
- Partnership with Airbus UP42.
- Research project started with Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt and Pfeifer & Langen.
Product
- 3D maps and the zoning toolset, plus multi-layer zones and cross-layer maps.
- AgGateway protocols and ISOXML support.
- Planet imagery, Precision Planting format, hand-drawn zones, custom labels for complex hierarchies, standardised export, radar processing.
Research institutes and large agriholdings
Business
- Selected for the EIT Food Accelerator Network programme in Munich.
- Cooperation with Eurasia Group Kazakhstan.
- LfL, the Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, runs its Future Crop Farming project on GeoPard.
- Agritechnica 2023 in Hanover, with the MHP team at the stand.
- Work alongside the Iowa Nitrogen Initiative on fertilizer rate precision.
Product
Equations, and work plans that reach the machine
Business
- Work with Indigo Ag on sustainable and regenerative agriculture.
- Closing event of the Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt research project.
Product
- Equation maps, localized zones, seeding and application work plans.
- Zone maps exported as John Deere work plans, and a raw view of satellite images.
- Batch equation maps and reusable zones.
- Per-area pricing units.
Universities, and a grower at 85,000 hectares
Business
- Grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for an automated AI framework for small and medium companies.
- VitAgro brings 85,000 hectares onto the platform.
- Partnership with the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine.
- Collaboration with Cornell University CAST and the Nutrient Management Spear Program.
- Research collaboration with Hochschule Hamm-Lippstadt.
- Agritechnica 2025 in Hanover.
Benchmarking, reasoning, and did it pay
Business
- MCP access, so GeoPard answers from inside ChatGPT and any other assistant that speaks the protocol.
- Field benchmarking opened to every plan as Farm View.
- Post-season economics answered on the platform with the Yield Report.
Product
- Farm View, soil lab CSV and Excel import, dynamic zone editing.
- Field trials design, synthetic yield maps, Farm View statistics, MCP.
- AI Assistant beta, AB-line grids, trials and exports.
- Yield Report with zone economics, guidance lines, tillage work plans.
- John Deere sync redesign, rate limits, yield report zones.
Every release since April 2022 is written up in full, web and mobile, on the documentation changelog. The same list is searchable on the release notes page.
Who we work with
Advisors, dealers, agriholdings, food companies and universities
Independent agronomic consultants came first and still set the agenda. What they ask for is what gets built.
Clients and collaborations
Technology partners, research and funding
Customers
What the people using it say
GeoPard’s analytics have made it easy for our team and farmers to use precision ag tools effectively. Reliable analytics and consistent support throughout the season have improved input planning and management.
Edoardo PozzatoPrecision agriculture agronomist, Sergio Bassan, Italy
Geopard is a great tool for us to build management zones with. When we don’t have access to multiple years worth of yield data for a grower, we can utilize GeoPard and the 20+ years of satellite imagery it gives us to build our management zones.
Isaac HickersonData manager, Hutson Inc.
A system that securely stores my own data in the cloud, so that I have access to the stored information at any time and at any location. I also think it’s important that the data is only shared with others if I give permission myself, and if I no longer want to share it, then I can immediately stop the sharing.
Nicole BarteldsDataboerin
We are happy to have GeoPard as part of the platforms working with SoilOptix data to enable growers and agronomists with the tools to accurately and visually analyze and manage their fields.
Zachary HarmerSoilOptix
It is a pleasure to cooperate with GeoPard. Not only the solutions are innovative, but also the service is excellent.
Simon LuyvenProjects lead, Pfeifer and Langen
When I compare the +20 year GeoPard product map to fields we have a multiple year average yield data its a very close match. The +20 year average map is an excellent product for growers lacking good yield data.
Jason DillerPrecision agriculture manager, Mercer Landmark
Questions
What buyers ask before they start
Who owns GeoPard?
FlyPard Analytics GmbH, registered in Germany, owned by the people who build the platform.
No input manufacturer, equipment maker or retailer holds a stake, and none has a vote on what gets built next.
If you sell no inputs, how do you make money?
Subscriptions. You pay for the area you analyse, by the hectare or the acre, or in credits if your season is lumpy.
The price list is published, so you can work out your own number before you talk to anyone. See pricing.
Where is my data stored, and who can see it?
On AWS, in certified data centres. Your farms are visible to you and to whoever you invite, which is usually an advisor or a dealer.
Withdraw that access and they lose it immediately. We do not sell your data, trade it, or use it to point you at a product.
What happens to my data if I stop using GeoPard?
Export it, then close the account. Boundaries, zone maps and prescriptions come out as shapefile, GeoJSON or ISOXML.
Nothing is held in a format only we can read, which is the point of supporting the standards rather than a house format.
Does GeoPard work with the machines I already run?
Prescriptions export as shapefile and ISOXML, which covers most terminals, and there is a bi-directional sync with John Deere Operations Center for boundaries, layers and work plans.
A mixed fleet is the normal case here, not an exception to work around.
How do I try it on one of my own fields?
Register, upload a boundary with a yield or soil file, and build a zone map on it. Judge it on your own ground rather than on a demo farm.
The calculators listed in the site menu run entirely in your browser and need no account at all.
See it on one of your own fields
Upload a boundary with a yield or soil file, and build a zone map on it in the next few minutes.
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