AgMonitor Expands Under a New Name

AgMonitor Expands Under a New Name

Tim Hammerich
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich.

Well there’s no shortage of data in agriculture, but what many farmers want to know is how can it save them money or make them money in their business. AgMonitor is using artificial intelligence to convert data to useful information for farmers to make management decisions related to crops, water and energy.

CEO Olivier Jerphagnon, says it’s not just about facilitating information, but also communication amongst everyone in a modern farming operation.

Jerphagnon… “We have weekly irrigation reports with some alerts that allows a ranch manager to set schedule. And one of the things we have developed under the grant from the energy commission is to have a mobile app that is very accessible to fill workers in Spanish, as much as an English. So they can have a conversation about their constraints, which more than regulation now. There are also labor changes for irrigators, also weather related issues, infrastructure can break. Irrigation scheduling, for example, is key to improving the crop management. And we've seen that actually improving communication has a bigger impact on the revenue than a particular widget, like a new sensor. The new technology from sensors can be really useful only if the team has good communication.”

The company, which recently changed its name from PowWow Energy to AgMonitor, has already validated the technology on over 100,000 acres and raised $4.5m to grow from here.

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