A local pioneering deep-tech company named DigiFarmz helps the agricultural industry through a multifaceted approach. Their mission is to enhance yield, profitability, and farm longevity by leveraging advanced data generation and predictive modeling.
DigiFarmz integrates various systems and sensors, consolidating data to increase decision accuracy. They partner with other technological solutions in the market, building an ecosystem that facilitates use for the end customer and improves productivity and profitability. Soil sensors, drone imagery, canopy cameras, yield maps, and other data types are all integrated to provide a complete and efficient solution.
Their digital ecosystem helps combine application technology, biotechnology, plantability, chemicals, and fertilizers, optimizing all these elements for each agricultural reality. The focus is on increasing yield, profitability, sustainability, and connecting farmers with the new agricultural market.
With offices in Peoria and Champaign and pilots and field trials in Indiana and Tennessee, DigiFarmz utilizes science, data, and practical field experience to tackle the challenge of increasing yield in low-margin scenarios.
Alex Chequim describes the three waves that Digifarmz is looking to grow and assist farmers.
- Smart Agronomic Recommendations: We provide cutting-edge decision support for farmers, focusing on plant health, genetics, and nutritional management. We consider fifty-two parameters, including diseases, pests, insects, nematodes, irrigation, and fertilizers. Our robust SaaS platform uses over twenty years of proprietary data and integrates data from various other sources, offering precise guidance to optimize cultivation practices.
- Risk Mitigation Scores: We are developing advanced risk mitigation scores that allow users to obtain favorable credit and insurance conditions, as well as sustainability-related bonuses. This innovative layer helps mitigate risks associated with agricultural decisions and operations, providing cashback and lower rates through strategic partnerships.
- Market Access Facilitation: DigiFarmz aims to bridge the gap between growers and qualified consumer markets (CPGs), meeting specific demands such as high-protein soybeans. Our guidance ensures farmers meet stringent market requirements, backed by comprehensive guidance and traceability, and through integration with other technologies.
DigiFarmz has generated data and constructed predictive models to assist in decision-making in row crops, operating in the United States, Brazil, and Paraguay. These efforts have helped increase yield, profitability, and sustainability in the field as well as providing the farmer with a tool to assist them with making on farm decisions.
DigiFarmz offers Smart Agronomic Recommendations, assisting farmers, farm managers,
cooperatives, and distributors in positioning products and resources in an increasingly complex market. They use robust modeling to optimize decision-making, integrating data from various sources such as soil sensors, weather satellites and stations, drone imagery, and yield maps.
A key differentiator is their preventive and predictive disease management, as diseases cause pre-symptomatic damage that cannot be managed by scouting. Effective management requires understanding the best combination of elements based on genetics, climate, planting dates, and other factors.
DigiFarmz has extensive experience in this area. For example, in Brazil, fungicide applications increased from one to an average of six. In the U.S., fungicide applications have also increased and have shown important results, with up to three applications providing ROI and higher yields. Our integrated management approach considers the impact of genetics and correlates various factors to optimize solutions.
There is no one-size-fits-all pesticide; the best results come from combining available products based on genetics, locations (altitude, latitude, and longitude), market factors, climate changes, and operational challenges. This comprehensive approach is essential for effective disease management and increased yield.
One of its products is DigiFarmz Linkage, which was designed to revolutionize relationships between ag distributors, cooperatives, and farmers. The platform provides numerous benefits, including strategic decision-making, business intelligence tools, real-time application monitoring, and precise product utilization data. These features enable ag distributors and cooperatives to generate additional revenue, reduce sales team turnover, increase business volume, and empower sales representatives with technical and agronomic support. Additionally, the platform offers tailored and customized agronomic recommendations, improving the reach and accuracy of services provided to farmers and building stronger trust relationships through reliable data and enhanced support.
Another relevant solution is the DRMS (DigiFarmz Risk Mitigation Score), which allows their clients and partners to obtain credit and crop insurance with more favorable conditions. This business model is already in operation in Brazil and ready to be implemented in the United States, offering benefits such as cashback and lower interest rates. They are seeking partners who share this vision of innovation and wish to collaborate in developing this additional risk mitigation layer.
In the third phase of their growth, DigiFarmz will act as a connection layer between the producer market and the qualified consumer market (specialty row crops), meeting specific demands such as soybeans with higher protein content. The platform provides the necessary guidance for users to be eligible for new revenue streams and specific offers, ensuring traceability through integrations and satellite imagery. The guidance provided by DigiFarmz helps to define the best combination of elements, such as genetics, inputs, and management, to optimize cultivation and meet market requirements.
They consider sustainable and productive agriculture an essential part of our mission. This includes carbon credits and other opportunities that farmers, dealerships, and farm managers should explore. They offer solutions that help integrate these new concepts into daily agricultural operations, contributing to sustainability and efficiency.
Learn more about DigiFarmz and how they can help transform agricultural operations with advanced technology and integrated solutions. They are also constantly searching for strategic partnerships that can contribute to their mission of transforming agriculture with cutting-edge technology.
