With at least 95% accuracy at key estimate timings in late July and early August, Growmark’s myFS agronomy platform gives its retail advisors and farmers new insights. Brendan Bachman, FS Agronomy Director, explains how the tool works and what it means for the future.
“We started the pursuit of what is now the MyFS Agronomy tool back in 2018, and really the mindset was as farmers continued to get better at collecting data it was very much real reality in the fact that we were data-rich and insight-poor. What we’ve tried to do is solve that problem,” Bachman says.
He explains the myFS Agronomy platform aims to be hub for all the data a field generates through the growing season, adding in weather, and additional insights. With technology, he says there’s been a learning curve of what works well, and what doesn’t achieve the quality expected, but in the past seven years, his team has achieved a view of a field via data that factors in the agronomic inputs and outcomes.
“We’re able to do now is really kind of synthesize a crop year in almost real time, utilize remote sensing and different modeling aspects to make some better decisions in season, but ultimately help that farmer really analyze how well their crop performed throughout,” he says. “For example, in a 2025 cropping season to make those appropriate changes going forward into ‘26.”
The latest agronomic insights being delivered are in-season yield estimates, which are in partnership using Intelinair technology. The company says in late July/early August the application has achieved results with yields of at least 95% accuracy. This past year, FS agronomy teams had 4.9 million acres of farmland monitored through remote sensing (airplanes, drones, and satellites), to generate corn yield estimate data.
Bachman shares how the FS team is bringing this tech to farmers in the latest episode of The Scoop Podcast.
