CHICAGO – March 4, 2025 – Intellias, a global software engineering and digital consulting company, has partnered with leading agriculture innovator Bayer to provide systems technology for the agriculture industry. The companies will work together to provide digital analytical solutions to agricultural finance companies and providers of consumer packaged goods (CPG) through Bayer’s AgPowered Services, which are built on the Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture.
This powerful technology can unify normally disjointed data — including satellite imagery, weather information and farm machinery data — from various sources to provide insightful metrics regarding crop production patterns.
In response to major trends in agriculture – including climate change, changing consumption patterns and the growing demand for transparency across the farming value chain – the industry is increasingly turning to tech companies to build better digital solutions in less time. By unifying data points, farmers, CPG companies and agrifinance companies stand to benefit from the intelligence that enables them to adopt precision agriculture, optimize resource management and reduce risk.
Bayer’s AgPowered Services will be enhanced by Intellias’s composable front-end applications, digital agents and digital twin technologies to provide visualization on analytics, such as growing degree day, crop water use, smart boundary detection, weather forecasting and more. Expanding access to these datasets has the potential to increase information integration and improve transparency throughout the agriculture industry.
There are many gap areas in crop production traceability today across the agriculture value chain. Our partnership with Intellias is enabling a tangible resource that agrifood organizations can utilize to further gain actionable and valuable real-time insights across their operations.
The technology can be used throughout the value chain, from input and services supply to on-farm production and downstream processing to consumer-facing business, offering companies valuable information, as well as the opportunity for consumer access and transparency. For example, weather data can be used to predict drought conditions, which in turn determines irrigation. Awareness of crop water use enables water-use efficiency metrics and supports customers to help meet their sustainability goals. Other capabilities and applications available through this collaboration include:
- Predicting crop yields
- Conducting crop and field assessments
- Making better sourcing decisions based on crop growth
- Simulating farm conditions in real-time
- Enhancing sustainability
- Streamlining reporting and compliance processes with automated data structuring