Shoreview, Minnesota, USA
Dec. 17, 2010
Winfield Solutions, LLC, a leading provider of agricultural inputs, today announced a long-term strategic partnership with GEOSYS Inc. intended to enhance Winfield Solutions’ ability to provide its business partners an industry-leading set of tools and technologies that will help growers make data-driven agronomic decisions on a field-by-field basis.
Effective immediately, the 10-year agreement provides Winfield Solutions the preferred rights to GEOSYS Inc.’s FarmSat™ Platform for major field crops in the United States. FarmSat™ is an innovative set of web-based tools that enables local agronomists to deliver a full set of precision farming services to growers. This partnership will enable Winfield Solutions to access GEOSYS’ world-class expertise to develop game-changing agronomic decision-support tools that will strengthen its business partners nationwide.
“The Winfield Solutions value promise to its business partners and their grower-customers is ‘Winning Together in the Field.’ The crop-planning, sales and product-placement tools we are developing with GEOSYS will enable us to fully deliver on that promise,” said Michael Vande Logt, Winfield Solutions Chief Operating Officer, Seed. “Our goal is to use data from our nearly 200 Answer Plot® research and training locations, combined with an extensive archive of satellite imagery and weather data, to provide new insights on how to best manage each product in our growers’ fields. We will help growers integrate data-driven and genetic-specific insights into customized farm plans that include precision-farming prescriptions where appropriate. This innovation will change the way growers purchase seed and the way agronomic decisions are made.”
Winfield Solutions believes that properly placing products by utilizing knowledge of genetics and agronomic practices maximizes growers’ profitability. The Winfield Solutions R7® Placement Strategy precisely matches crop inputs with field conditions, and this collaboration with GEOSYS Inc. will help bring the R7® Placement Strategy to more growers served by local sales agronomists.
“GEOSYS Inc. has considered a number of distribution partners within the United States and we are confident that this new long-term partnership with Winfield Solutions is without a doubt the best match at the right time for all stakeholders. Our collective commitment to creating significant value for our customers by delivering superior agronomic decision-support tools is, we believe, unmatched within the agricultural retail market here in the United States,” said N.R. (Norm) Davy, GEOSYS Senior Vice President – Americas.
Winfield Solutions, LLC, a Land O’Lakes company, offers superior expertise and quality AgriSolutions™ crop protection products and CROPLAN GENETICS® seed. For more information on Winfield Solutions, see winfieldsolutionsllc.com. For information specific to AgriSolutions™ and CROPLAN GENETICS®, please see www.AgriSolutionsinfo.com and www.CROPLANGENETICS.com.
GEOSYS Inc., based in Minneapolis, MN, is a wholly owned subsidiary of GEOSYS SA; which is a European-based company, with headquarters in Toulouse, France.
GEOSYS mission is to help agribusinesses and agricultural professionals make better decisions using the latest research in agronomic, information and geographic technologies that include remote sensing. With over 23 years in business, 30+ full-time employees and with projects in more than 50 countries, GEOSYS is a key leader in the agricultural information and decision support business. For information on GEOSYS, see geosys.com and for information specific to the FARMSAT® Platform, please see www.FieldInSite.FarmSat.com.
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