15 Best New Agriculture Apps for 2019
When I published the first “top apps for agriculture” list in 2011, little did I know at the time that it would turn into the most popular feature on CropLife.com. The annual column has taken on a life of its own — with nearly 100 apps featured and more than one million total views — as it continues to be a reliable source of web traffic to our site.
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AGBRIDGE (update)
The AGBRIDGE mobile app allows users to move data from their in-cab field computer (Trimble, AgLeader, Raven, CASEIH, John Deere) to their cloud account and desktop when paired with an AGBRIDGE Drive. A couple of new features have been introduced recently. The new WiFi Direct feature automatically sends and receives new files anytime a machine is in range of a trusted WiFi network, or a mobile WiFi Hotspot. Also, as-applied maps are now available to view and share right from the AGBRIDGE mobile app, providing immediate feedback minutes after agbridging. Android, iPhone, iPad
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Agrellus
Agrellus is an online marketplace that brings together buyers and sellers of agricultural inputs and commodities. Founded by unaffiliated growers and ag retailers with more than 50 years of agriculture experience, Agrellus is a solution to buy and sell more than 7,000 agriculture products. Find the right products in the quantities you need. Request quotes from multiple dealers competing for your business. Set delivery deadlines that meets your farming needs. Agrellus has also added aerial and ground custom application services to the app. Members can customize requests by crop; choose targets like insect, weed, seeding, or defoliation; select rate per acre; or get advice on correct rates or best product for their needs. Android, iPhone, iPad
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RRXtend Spray App
RRXtend Spray App helps you plan sprays more effectively by providing weather forecasts including inversion risk probability and the ability to create and retain application records. A Forecast feature helps growers and applicators identify weather conditions and inversion risk prior to spray applications. A Record Keeping feature helps applicators comply with mandatory dicamba record keeping requirements when applying XtendiMax with VaporGrip Technology. A Resource feature provides other important information related to the Roundup Ready Xtend Crop System. Android, iPhone, iPad
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xarvio Scouting App
Detect and identify in-field stress simply by taking a photo with your smartphone with the xarvio Scouting app from BASF Digital Farming. The app is designed to support farmers and agricultural advisors in their decision making. Just by walking over the fields and taking pictures you can: identify weeds, determine and count insects in the yellow traps, recognize diseases, analyze leaf damage, and examine the nitrogen status. Everything you spot on your walks is documented in a diary – so you have a complete history available at your fingertips. Android, iPhone, iPad
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Cropstream
Cropstream helps agricultural producers and companies work together — making it easy to communicate and coordinate crop production activities and keep everyone in sync. Whether you are a grower, advisor, seed dealer, service provider, ag retailer, or manufacturer — Cropstream keeps you connected and helps you grow your business. The app makes it easy to keep track of all your conversations by linking messages and photos to the people, products, and places where they took place. Android, iPhone, iPad
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FieldCheck App
The new FieldCheck by FieldWatch app allows pesticide applicators of any kind to easily locate specialty crop and beehive locations from their mobile device or tablet. With increased functionality and ease-of-use, larger icons and the ability to choose your desired search location through GPS or a specific address, the app will bring the existing FieldWatch platforms to users even faster and easier than before. The DriftWatch Specialty Crop Site and BeeCheck Apiary Registry data will be more accessible to users on the go – just click on the pins to see the detailed contact and location information you need. Android, iPhone, iPad
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AgriSync (update)
AgriSync enables farmers and advisors to connect and resolve support issues using a mobile video customer service platform. A recent major update created several new features. When a customer uses AgriSync’s mobile call system, the call is simultaneously sent to a selected team of advisors with the new VoiceHub feature. While on a live call, an advisor can create a ticket in AgriSync with the Text to Join feature and invite the farmer to join a live video session by simply clicking a text. Using the Broadcast feature, users can create a simple broadcast message to share pro-active tips and reduce redundant support questions. Android, iPhone, iPad
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Midwest Cover Crops Field Scout App
This app is a convenient, handy resource based on the Midwest Cover Crop Field Guide from Purdue Extension. The app will help you effectively select, grow, and use cover crops in your farming systems. The app covers many basics of cover crops, including ratings for different qualities like nitrogen source, nitrogen scavenger, soil builder, erosion preventer, weed fighter, and many more. The app also includes a handy pure live seed calculator to help you determine your seeding rates. Android, iPhone
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Sirrus (update)
Sirrus V4.0 launched as a universal application designed to operate on either iPad or iPhone, negating the need for separate applications that run on the two devices. The upgrade includes an improved user interface on the home screen, added support for surface analysis layers, irrigation activities, and a new comparison map view that allows users to select virtually any two data layers for a field and compare them in a side-by-side view. The latest update to Sirrus includes support for Planting Recommendations and SSURGO 2 Soil Type data layers and simplified boundary creation with a new Pick-a-Field feature. iPhone, iPad
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FieldNET Mobile (update)
Lindsay Corp. has launched a new and improved FieldNET mobile app. The app includes enhancements that offer a more user-friendly experience with improved access, visibility, and control of center pivots and lateral irrigation systems. The new FieldNET mobile app has an extremely intuitive and fast user interface, offering an enhanced level of mobility and precision. Key features and new, real-time functionalities now available include the ability to enable/disable auto-restart and auto-reverse; powerful end gun controls, providing aerial views; improved search tools for equipment and groups; the ability to shut down multiple pivots simultaneously; displays time remaining for current circle or until the next stop; streamlined status alerts now delivered via push notification, if desired; and an improved “one-touch“ method to access a free demonstration. Android, iPhone, iPad
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Kugler Timing App
The Kugler Timing App provides Fertilizer Application Timing and Product Recommendations on a wide variety of crops including corn, soybeans, wheat, sorghum, sunflower, barley, oats, peas/lentils, canola, and flax. To find the ideal Kugler product, along with the application rate and timing, simply select the crop from a list of 11 different options and select the growth stage based on an illustration that shows each stage of plant development from emergence through harvest. The app lists the most effective product(s) for that growth stage, along with the rate per acre. Android, iPhone, iPad
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Farm Service Manager
A simple way for farmers and contractors to manage the service and maintenance history of all farm machinery and vehicles. From single owner operators to large corporate farms, this app is ideal if you run tractors, combines, planters, cars, trucks, earthmoving equipment, and small motors of all makes and models. Designed by farmers, Farm Service Manager makes creating accurate service records easy while also allowing users to set service reminders and build service histories. Android, iPhone, iPad
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AgSense (update)
Enhancements to AgSense mobile app give users increased ability to remotely monitor and control their entire irrigation operation from anywhere, at any time. The updated app offers new options for even more precise control of devices, simplified graphics, and navigation improvements. Multiple AgSense devices can be sorted into Groups, making it easier than ever to set up an irrigation schedule for all devices within a group. New graphics and more control options for editing a device’s irrigation schedule with a single tap of the screen. Growers can now set angles for Stop-In-Slots, End Gun Tables, and Speed Tables with GPS pinpoint precision. The new “Yearly Allotment” graphic was added to improve tracking of a pivot’s water usage throughout an irrigation season. Android, iPhone, iPad
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FieldAgent (update)
FieldAgent (formerly AgVault) flies your DJI drone and captures data to make beautiful agricultural crop health maps, count plants, find weeds, and more. Compatible with most any modern DJI drone, FieldAgent manages all the details of flying so you can focus simply on the desired map. FieldAgent shows your full orthomosaics, plant populations, weed locations, and precision NDVI crop-health products right on your device, complete with position information to make in-field scouting possible. New features include flight planning options, a sleeker, more efficient user interface, in-app map views, and free access to the most commonly used features on mobile. The redesigned app supports Sentera’s mission of making digital agriculture easy, seamless, and available. iPhone, iPad
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John Deere Bale Mobile
John Deere Bale Mobile is an iPad application designed to provide customers with enhanced feedback and capabilities during and after the baling process with the new L331 and L341 large square balers. This includes mapping capabilities to display geo-referenced parameter feedback and bale placement across a field. Data can be streamed live to the operator, pulled up later for reference, or used in aiding the retrieval of bales. The Bale Mobile app communicates with the machine through a WiFi network connection to the machine's Wireless Data Server (WDS). iPad
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AGBRIDGE (update)
Agrellus
RRXtend Spray App
xarvio Scouting App
Cropstream
FieldCheck App
AgriSync (update)
Midwest Cover Crops Field Scout App
Sirrus (update)
FieldNET Mobile (update)
Kugler Timing App
Farm Service Manager
AgSense (update)
FieldAgent (update)
John Deere Bale Mobile
I continue to hear from our audience on how much they appreciate the feature and how it keeps them informed on the latest in digital farming. Of course, I’ve also received my share of marketing pitches from app developers wanting their application to be considered for the next list. It’s been a win-win deal for all parties involved.
Despite its success, I decided last year to put the column on hiatus (although I did post a version of it on PrecisionAg.com), and it predictably drew some mild backlash. I have received a number of emails, comments, and tweets from fans and followers asking for its return. So back by popular demand, here it is. I’ve researched and evaluated the newest farming apps available for Androids, iPads, and iPhones. The apps listed in the slideshow above were either introduced or significantly updated in 2018.
Want more agriculture apps? Be sure to check out these other lists:
- 17 Agriculture Apps That Will Help You Farm Smarter In 2017
- 10 Must-Have Agriculture Apps That Will Make You More Efficient In 2016
- 10 Best New Agriculture Apps For 2015
- 15 Best New Agriculture Apps Worth Downloading In 2014
- 13 New Mobile Agriculture Apps For 2013
- 10 Best Mobile Agriculture Apps For 2012
- 20 Best Mobile Apps For Agriculture For 2011
If you have a favorite new app that is on my lists or one that is not, tell me about it at [email protected] or post a comment below.
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Matt Hopkins is Senior Online Editor for the Agribusiness Group at Meister Media Worldwide (MMW), including such brands as CropLife, CropLife IRON, AgriBusiness Global, Global Agtech Initiative, and Cotton Grower. He is responsible for managing an array of digital products, including newsletters, websites, video, and social media. Hopkins originally joined MMW in 1994 as an editor for Greenhouse Grower magazine before transitioning to Business Manager of its MeisterPro division. He has a Communications Degree from Cleveland State University. See all author stories here.