AgriEdge Turns 20: A Look Back at Syngenta’s Whole-Farm Management System
Jeremy Goyings, who has been using the AgriEdge whole-farm management program for more than six years, appreciates how it allows him to check field inputs and monitor cost per acre on the Goyings’ 4,600-acre generational farm in Paulding, OH.
Most growers agree that the value they receive from digital technology on their farms increases each season, writes Jeff Jones at Syngenta Thrive. Just ask Gregg Johnson, who grows corn, soybeans and cotton in Louisiana. When he first saw the online mapping feature of AgriEdge — the Syngenta whole-farm management system — nearly 20 years ago, he immediately recognized its potential and became a customer. Today, Johnson looks forward to using the mobile version of the AgriEdge app when his family runs four 12-row planters in two parishes.
“We don’t have a staff who keeps records for us,” Johnson explains. “With the mobile version of AgriEdge, I can pull up the field we’re in and enter the seed type as well as the chemicals and rates we’re using while we plant, instead of entering it into the computer later on. It’s made our operations so much easier. I can get home, connect to Wi-Fi and update our records instantly.”
After first introducing what would become AgriEdge to Southern growers in 2001, Syngenta expanded the program nationwide in 2012. That’s about the time Kentucky-based grower Gary Cecil signed on. Today, Cecil considers AgriEdge an indispensable tool for food-safety audits on his watermelon and tobacco farm.
“When I can pinpoint my cost every day and do not have to dig through handwritten records, it really takes the pressure off during audits,” Cecil says. “AgriEdge keeps track of the pounds, ounces and pesticides we use and a lot more. It’s hard to put a price on the time we’ve saved over the years with this program.”
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