The Best New and Updated Mobile Apps for Agriculture

By Matt Hopkins|January 4, 2019

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.

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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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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