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Turning Satellite Data into Smarter Decisions for Agriculture

When I joined Agrograph in 2024, I was drawn to a challenge that sits at the intersection of agriculture, technology, and data. Agriculture has always been part of my life through my family’s farm, and after building and scaling a software company in Madison, I was excited by the opportunity to apply technology to one of the world’s most important industries.

Agrograph helps organizations better understand agricultural risk using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence. By analyzing publicly available satellite data from sources such as NASA and the European Union, we can evaluate individual farm fields and generate insights that were previously difficult or impossible to access at scale.

What makes our approach unique is the level of detail. Rather than looking at agriculture through broad regional averages, we analyze fields individually. Using AI-powered models, we evaluate dozens of factors, including weather patterns, soil conditions, crop performance, and management practices. That allows us to generate field-level insights and predict yields throughout the growing season with remarkable accuracy.

Today, many of our customers are in the insurance industry, where understanding risk at the field level can create better outcomes than relying solely on county-wide averages. By providing more precise information, we help insurers, asset managers, and agricultural businesses make smarter decisions backed by data.

Agrograph’s roots are firmly planted in Wisconsin. The company was founded by Dr. Mutlu Ozdogan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an expert in remote sensing. More than a decade ago, he recognized the potential of satellite imagery to unlock new insights for agriculture and launched the company to bring that research into the marketplace.

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Developing disease resistance in new wheat varieties

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Dr. Colin Hiebert, research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada – Morden, is focused on developing new tools that wheat breeders can use to improve, diversify and strengthen disease resistance in new wheat varieties. This includes new genomic tools that address resistance to five diseases including: Fusarium head blight, leaf rust, stripe rust, stem rust and common bunt.

Learn more about how research conducted at AAFC-Morden will impact wheat variety development, production and profitability for the future. This research is part of the Canadian National Wheat Cluster and funding is provided through the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Alberta Grains, Sask Wheat, Manitoba Crop Alliance, Western Grains Research Foundation and Canadian Field Crop Research Alliance.