Farmers Edge partners with Mazergroup</

Sep 30, 2016

Partnership will help bring more precision ag services to the Prairies

By Diego Flammini
Assistant Editor, North American Content
Farms.com

Farmers Edge is partnering with Mazergroup, North America’s largest provider of New Holland equipment, to bring more precision agriculture services to farmers in Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Under the agreement, Mazergroup will introduce Farmers Edge’s precision agriculture platform to customers across its 15 locations. The partnership will enable Mazergroup to incorporate hardware, software and agronomy support from Farmers Edge.

“This partnership will allow our existing Precision Land Management (PLM) team to work alongside Farmers Edge to ensure our customers are getting the best value from their crops and achieving the highest yields possible,” said Randy Gates, PLM Manager for Mazergroup in a release. “Technology in agriculture is continually changing, and we feel that Farmers Edge has the hardware, software and agronomy solutions to deliver actionable data to our customers that will maximize sustainability, efficiency, and profitability across each of their farms.”

With farmers in Western Canada leading the charge into the agriculture’s future, Farmers Edge said the partnership puts producers first when it comes to decision making.

“As Western Canada accelerates into the next generation of farming, this partnership will provide existing and future Mazergroup customers not only with access to the best technology available, but also ongoing in-field support to ensure the best farming decisions are being made,” Wade Barnes, Farmers Edge president and CEO, said in a release.

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