Take Control of Your Farm Data

Apr 24, 2025
By Ryan Ridley
Assistant Editor, North American Content, Farms.com

Precision Planting’s Panorama App Helps Farmers Analyze Field Data and Improve Decisions

Panorama, developed by Precision Planting, is a tool/app designed to bring real-time field data from the cab to your phone or laptop.

Those familiar with Precision Planting’s 20|20 monitor can look at this application as an extension of monitor’s data pixel for pixel into the cloud, allowing farmers to access and analyze vital information anytime.

Eric Huber, region manager with Precision Planting, recently met with Farms.com for a complete overview of the app.

The system starts with the 20|20 monitor in the cab, which collects sensor data during planting, spraying, or harvesting.

Its main goal is to alert the grower about real-time issues like seed placement or spray effectiveness, helping to maintain high yield and data accuracy.

After the field pass is complete, Panorama allows users to dig deeper into the data. Through a phone or computer, farmers can compare layers—such as yield to hybrid or furrow moisture—linking results to in-field decisions.

Panorama also supports collaboration.

With a cellular connection, dealers and advisors can access a live feed from the equipment. This allows them to view voltages, commands, and configurations, speeding up troubleshooting and support.

Farmers can review equipment performance per row or nozzle and share data through platforms like FieldView or John Deere Operations Center. Files can also be downloaded and uploaded to other systems.

Another major benefit is multi-machine connectivity.

Multiple monitors across machines in the same field can share data in real-time, without needing line of sight. This helps one machine react to the data collected by another, improving efficiency.

Panorama also supports scouting by making accurate, layered field data easily accessible.

Though the technology is still growing, its benefits are clear: improved decisions, better equipment performance, and stronger teamwork.

Huber walks you through Panorama in the video below.

Video: Evolution of Beef Cattle Farming

The Clear Conversations podcast took to the road for a special episode recorded in Nashville during CattleCon, bringing listeners straight into the heart of the cattle industry. Host Tracy Sellers welcomed rancher Steve Wooten of Beatty Canyon Ranch in Colorado for a wide-ranging discussion that blended family history and sustainability, particularly as it relates to the future of beef production.

Sustainability emerged as a central theme of the conversation, a word that Wooten acknowledges can mean very different things depending on who you ask. For him, sustainability starts with the soil. Healthy soil produces healthy grass, which supports efficient cattle capable of producing year after year with minimal external inputs. It’s an approach that equally considers vegetation, animal efficiency, and long-term profitability.

That philosophy aligned naturally with Wooten’s involvement in the U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, where he served as a representative for the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association. The roundtable brings together the entire beef supply chain—from producers to retailers—along with universities, NGOs, and allied industries. Its goal is not regulation, Wooten emphasized, but collaboration, shared learning, and continuous improvement.