[bman90]

I don't get what is so impressive about what is essentially an accounting app. it's a well done technology but some people get so carried away by this farm tech stuff... a CRUD app is not going to make farms more productive... I've seen that farmlogs is using satellite NDVI data now to predict yields etc.... I've done a data science project and found the the NDVI has minimal correlation to yield. part of we thinks that this is a group of CS people pretending to be ag engineers. ..

[gumballhead]

I think that was the point of the podcast. It started as a typical and shitty CakePHP / Backbone CRUD app like everything else. You don't need much to get started.

There's a lot more in there now, but it's still built around boring record keeping software. I wouldn't even say accounting software.

We're ingesting shitloads of geospatial data specific to each field from government and third party sources, from weather data like historical rainfall and temperature, to in season and historical satellite imagery, to sensor readings from their own combines or smartphones.

This is going to help farmers understand their fields and how their crops are growing better and soon allow us to provide agronomic services like variable rate prescriptions. We're not predicting yield from NDVI. There is a correlation there, but like you said it's moderate.