When Jon Bottiger moved back to manage the family farm after 20 years of navigating New York City, the Denton, Kansas native brought the shrewd business acumen he had developed managing a multi-million-dollar hedge fund to the rich soils of Doniphan County.
AcreForward Sustainability provides clarity for sustainability programs by delivering the insights, records, and cross-comparison needed to make informed and data-driven enrollment decisions.
Data is the highway infrastructure that agriculture has sped along for the past few decades, and the dead-end sideroads and alleys—those numbers that haven’t quite had a place in actionable management—have multiplied. The team behind Taranis’ AcreForward is working to connect those sideroads and alleys. With high-resolution, leaf-level imagery, Taranis is putting knowledge at the fingertips of decision-makers when and where it is needed most. Every acre tells a story. Taranis not only records that story but stores it for playback at any time.
In this follow-up interview with Crop Science Market Reporting’s Akashpratim Mukhopadhyay, Taranis’ chief commercial officer, Mike DiPaola, discusses various operational aspects involving the business, and delivers a keen analysis of factors influencing the global digital agriculture sector.
US precision agriculture business Taranis (Westfield, Indiana) claims to be at the forefront of the digital agriculture revolution and provides Crop Science Market Reporting’s readers a ringside view of its work on artificial intelligence (AI) through this two-part interview with the company’s chief commercial officer, Mike DiPaola.
“What we do at Taranis is so much more than intelligent crop scouting,” DiPaola says. “The data that we deliver is bigger than that. We’re the black-and-white answers that can be traced back to the seed bag and the planter settings.
