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: How farmers are protecting the soil and our food security | DW Documentary

For a long time, soil was all but ignored. But for years, the valuable humus layer has been thinning. Farmers in Brandenburg are clearly feeling the effects of this on their sandy fields. Many are now taking steps to prepare their farms for the future.

Years of drought, record rainfall and failed harvests: we are becoming increasingly aware of how sensitively our environment reacts to extreme weather conditions. Farmers' livelihoods are at stake. So is the ability of consumers to afford food.

For a few years now, agriculture that focuses solely on maximum yields has been regarded with increasing skepticism. It is becoming more and more clear just how dependent we are on healthy soils.

Brandenburg is the federal state with the worst soil quality in Germany. The already thin, fertile humus layer has been shrinking for decades. Researchers and farmers who are keen to experiment are combating these developments and looking for solutions. Priority is being given to building up the humus layer, which consists of microorganisms and fungi, as well as springtails, small worms and centipedes.

For Lena and Philipp Adler, two young vegetable farmers, the tiny soil creatures are invaluable helpers. On their three-hectare organic farm, they rely on simple, mechanical weed control, fallow areas where the soil can recover, and diversity. Conventional farmer Mark Dümichen also does everything he can to protect soil life on his land. For years, he has not tilled the soil after the harvest and sows directly into the field. His yields have stabilized since he began to work this way.

Isabella Krause from Regionalwert AG Berlin-Brandenburg is convinced after the experiences of the last hot summers that new crops will thrive on Brandenburg's fields in the long term. She has founded a network of farmers who are promoting the cultivation of chickpeas with support from the scientific community.