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.
Technology like drones and AI are changing the field of farming
The success of this year’s growing season started with the decisions made last fall and will continue throughout this growing season. That’s why top advisors recommend leveraging a “game tape” or digital record of events, weather and pest pressures and other influencers of crop performance and yield. A field’s “game tape” can make all the difference between black and red ink from year to year.
