Case Study: Farmers Edge achieves data-driven crop productivity and profitability with Microsoft Azure (Azure IoT Hub)

Solving agriculture to sustain the world’s population

Farmers Edge, a Canadian leader in decision agriculture, combines hardware, software, agronomy, and support to give growers the data they need to maximize productivity and profitability. The company needed to scale and reliably manage thousands of IoT devices and years of field-centric data so farmers could sustainably increase yields and optimize inputs for a growing global population.

By using Microsoft Azure IoT Hub to connect and manage its device fleet, Farmers Edge runs machine learning and AI across aggregated field data to enable variable-rate application and other precision practices. The solution delivers targeted fertilizer use, improved yield outcomes, and greater profitability and sustainability for growers, effectively creating a new, data-driven type of farmer.

Farmers Edge

Kevin Grant

Chief Technology Officer