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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Just as farming in general continues to evolve, so do the tools needed by growers to succeed. 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.
If you have a favorite new app that is on my list or one that is not, tell me about it at matt@croplife.com or post a comment below.