Farm the Next Generation

This is where my grandfather was a tenant farmer - he would never have believed how farm technology has progressed.? While mechanisation, pesticides and fertilisers avoided Malthusian catastrophe, as the world’s population approaches 8 billion it can be easy to wonder how productivity, yield and overall agricultural efficiency.

Smart farming is a modern approach to agriculture that uses technology to increase productivity, yields, and efficiency of farm operations. One of the key technologies that is driving smart farming is the Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture. This platform leverages industry-specific data connectors and capabilities to connect and unify farm data from disparate sources, allowing organizations to leverage high-quality datasets for digital agriculture solutions 1 2 .

The Azure Data Manager for Agriculture provides a straightforward path to retrieving both historic and up-to-date activity files, from which further aggregated insights can be derived. With new large language model APIs in Azure Data Manager for Agriculture, generative AI in agriculture is now a reality. The large language model APIs enable the seamless retrieval of data mapped to farm operations, sensors, weather, and imagery so that farming-related context and insights can be queried in a conversational context 3 .

Bayer has collaborated with Microsoft to connect farm data to address the lack of data interoperability in agriculture. New data connectors allow secure, compliant exchange of farm data between Bayer’s flagship digital farming product Climate FieldView and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) through the industry platform Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture. Following the preview launch of Bayer AgPowered Services on the platform earlier this year, Leaf Agriculture is now bringing a solution to further enhance accessibility of farm machinery data, and OneSoil is delivering new solutions for in-season crop identification 4 5 6 .

Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture is a powerful tool that can help farmers and organizations in the agriculture industry to make data-driven decisions and improve their operations. By leveraging data and analytics, organizations can gain insights into customer behavior and preferences, enabling them to offer more personalized experiences. This can lead to increased productivity, yields, and efficiency of farm operations 1 2 .

Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture is a platform that connects data sources, enables data exchange, and supports generative AI in the agriculture industry. It helps farmers and organizations optimize their performance and sustainability through collaborations with Bayer, Leaf Agriculture, OneSoil, and others. It also improves crop identification, data interoperability, and conversational queries. Microsoft Azure Data Manager for Agriculture is creating a more resilient and prosperous future for the next generation agriculture industry.