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Sitting Down with Innovator Gregg Sauder

Last Friday, the Ag Equipment Intelligence editors were at the Morton-Illinois headquarters of 360 Yield with company founder and CEO Gregg Sauder. 

Sauder, who sold his Precision Planting company in 2012 for $250 million to Monsanto, is seeing success with his new company, and namely his invention of the 360 Rain, an autonomous system to irrigate and bring manure nutrients to the root of the corn.

The technology has been a bright spot in a tough market and has been widely reported by the ag media this past year.

Sauder’s approach as an independent equipment innovator is in stark difference to what has angered farmers in the Right to Repair debate.

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