25 And because it’s an artificial intelligence program, it learns year-over-year. But, as pointed out by Mintin, it is foremost a retailer tool that makes analyzing grower fields more efficient. “But the retailer controls the final report details before providing them to the grower.” The Ag Assistant is powered by a Generative AI model that has been trained on proprietary agronomic data spanning several years of in-season crop intelligence gathered from fields across the continental US, along with other sources of industry-specific data, including weather maps, machinery data, university research reports, and more. With all of this curated and validated training data, the Ag Assistant has, according to Taranis, capabilities not available in other generic or non-agriculture models. In an example offered by Minton on the company website, “... consider a scenario in which Ag Assistant identifies a widespread, specific weed threat, indicating that the prescribed weed management program did not work. Rather than an agronomist spending hours and days during the growing season manually walking and scouting fields, reviewing seed hybrid information, weather history and forecast, herbicide label information, identified weed control, etc., Ag Assistant will immediately generate a detailed, expert-level agronomy report to the agronomist that analyzes those factors and more to provide a targeted control recommendation for the specific field and farm in question.” So... just what does one get when purchasing the Ag Assistant? Minton said that they sell through agricultural retail channels. “The person buying is physically purchasing a fullservice subscription to monitor their growers’ crops throughout the season, providing aggregate and leaf-level insights for in-season decision-making and planning for the next season. He continued: “The full-service subscription includes everything end-to-end, from the pilots flying the fields in a timely manner to access to the Taranis platform. The service is backed by a dedicated customer success team with marketing support provided as a value-add.” The full-service offering from Taranis provides the option of purchasing a single-year subscription or one for multiple years. And because technology has a habit of progressing, Minton said that all software updates to Ag Assistant are done fully through the cloud, meaning your technology is always up-to-date—there’s no software to install or manage. Ag Assistant has Notes and Health Check icons containing reports that can be used between flight missions or as a post-season review report. The information output follows the current threats that Taranis said it currently scans for. Founded in 2015 and commercialized in the US in 2020, Taranis is available to customers throughout the country and will be available globally soon. “We service millions of acres in the US and globally,” summed up Minton. “We have more than 100 agriculture retailers in the US providing this service to growers. We serve 25 of CropLife’s Top 100 Ag Retailers. Company information—including testimonials about the Ag Assistant—can be found at www.taranis.com. | pag “THE FULL-SERVICE SUBSCRIPTION INCLUDES EVERYTHING END-TO-END, FROM THE PILOTS FLYING THE FIELDS IN A TIMELY MANNER TO ACCESS TO THE TARANIS PLATFORM.”
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