Agricultural Intelligence

The intelligence layer that sits above every farm management tool. Not just data — decisions. Not just dashboards — dollar-valued recommendations that pay for themselves in one season.

3,200
Acres managed
12
Fields monitored
$132K
Identified savings
7
Priority actions

Farm Command Center

Everything a farm owner needs at 5am with coffee. Active alerts, priority actions, commodity prices, season progress — one screen.

Dashboard

Priority Actions

Not just alerts — ranked, actionable items. "Scout Fields 9-12 for soybean maturity — frost window opens Oct 15." Each action tied to specific fields, specific dollars, specific deadlines.

Live Market Context

Corn at $4.45 and falling. Break-even alert for Field 7 at $4.82/bu. The dashboard connects commodity prices to your specific fields and your specific costs — not generic market news.

Field-Level Intelligence

Every field, every metric, every season. Soil health trajectories, growth stages, risk scores — with slide-in detail panels for deep analysis.

Fields
Field Detail

Soil Health Trajectory

Not a single soil test number — a trajectory across seasons. See organic matter trending up or down. Track pH, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium over time. The trend IS the signal.

  • 5-season soil health charts per field
  • Risk component breakdown (weather, price, soil, pest, input cost)
  • Growth stage progress with days to maturity
  • Click any field for the full picture

At-Risk Field Detection

Field 12: organic matter declining, risk score elevated, soybeans at beginning seed stage with frost risk approaching. The system flags it before you walk the field.

Field Detail At Risk

Weather Intelligence

Not just a forecast — agricultural weather intelligence. GDD accumulation, frost probability, growing season trend analysis over a decade.

Weather

Growing Degree Days

312 GDD accumulated. Base 50, corn VT target. Per-day mini bars show accumulation rate. The system knows if your crop is on track for maturity before the frost window.

Decade-Scale Trends

"Your growing season has shortened by 6 days over the past decade." Not this year's weather — the structural shift that should change your variety selection and planting dates.

Cascading Risk Engine

When nitrogen prices spike 34%, which fields are at risk? What's the margin impact? What should you do? The risk engine traces cause to consequence to action.

Risk Engine

Cascading Impact Analysis

"Nitrogen price +34% YoY → Fields 3-7 margin compression → Reduce application 15% on low-response zones → $19,800 savings." From trigger to impact to action to dollars — in one view.

Pest Cycle Prediction

Soybean aphid outbreaks follow a 3-year cycle. The system matches historical patterns (2021, 2024) and predicts 2027 risk. "Deploy scouting teams to soybean fields by V2-V4 stage."

Dollar-Valued Recommendations

Not generic advice — specific actions with specific dollar values, ranked by priority. 7 recommendations worth $132,020 this season.

Recommendations Recommendations Detail

$18,700 — Reduce N Rate

Nitrogen prices up 31%. Low-response fields (3, 5, 7) show diminishing returns above 180 lbs N/ac. Reduce application by 15% on these fields to protect margin without yield impact.

$47,200 — Accelerate Harvest

68% probability of killing frost Oct 15. Late-planted soybeans in Fields 9, 10, 11 are 7 days behind normal maturity. Prioritize harvest order to save those fields first.

Market Intelligence

Live commodity prices connected to your specific fields and your specific costs. Break-even analysis that tells you which fields are profitable today — not last season.

Market

Per-Field Break-Even

Field 7 breakeven: $4.82/bu. December corn futures: $4.45. That field is underwater. Fields 5, 6, 10, 12 also at risk. The forward contracting calculator shows the hedge that protects your margin.

  • All 12 fields with real-time break-even vs futures
  • 5-year input cost trend analysis
  • Forward contracting calculator with live margin output
  • Red/green status: immediately see which fields are profitable

Input Cost Intelligence

Anhydrous ammonia: $748/ton, up from $570 last year. Glyphosate down 17%. The 5-year trend table shows you're paying 18% more for nitrogen than 3 years ago — and which alternatives could save you money.

Fleet & Harvest Planning

7 machines, 3 service alerts, 64% average utilization. Engine hours, next service dates, and a harvest window calculator that combines GDD, weather, and crop maturity.

Equipment

Harvest Window Calculator

Field 6: Oct 13-18, 84% confidence. Field 5: Oct 8-14, 71% confidence (frost risk makes pre-frost harvest critical). Each window based on GDD accumulation, weather forecast, and grain moisture modeling.

Fleet Readiness

Combine #2 in maintenance. Tractor #3 needs repair — service overdue by 56 hours. The system flags what needs to be ready before the harvest window opens.

Aether AG Mobile App

Built through the same autonomous pipeline. GPS field detection, push notifications for frost and pest alerts, real-time commodity pricing, offline-first with biometric auth. From spec to running on device — one build.

Mobile home dashboard
Frost alert detail
Field list with GPS
Commodity pricing

Compliance & Carbon

Application records for regulatory compliance. Per-field carbon tracking with sequestration rates and cover crop credits.

Compliance

Application Records

Every application logged: product, rate, date, weather conditions, applicator. Ready for crop insurance claims and regulatory audits.

Carbon Tracking

Carbon Tracking

4,873 tCO2e emissions, 110 tCO2e offset, 4,763 net. Per-field sequestration rates. Cover crop and no-till practices tracked for carbon credit programs.

All figures below are demonstration data generated for a fictional farm — the point is the shape of the analysis, not the numbers.

Season P&L

Full financial picture: $2.1M revenue, $1.48M costs, $648K net income, 30.4% margin. Per-field breakdown — know exactly which fields made money and which didn't.

Season Reports

The Intelligence Gap

Existing farm software manages data. This platform synthesizes data into financial decisions.

Feature Aether AG Climate FieldView JD Ops Center Granular Bushel Farm
Weather intelligence + GDD + trendsYesNoNoNoAdd-on
Live commodity pricesYesNoNoNoYes
Per-field break-even vs futuresYesNoNoBasic P&LYes
Forward contracting calculatorYesNoNoNoPosition tracking
Cascading risk analysisYesNoNoNoNo
Pest cycle predictionYesNoNoNoNo
$-valued AI recommendations$132K identifiedSeed scriptsNoSeed ROINo
Harvest window calculatorWith confidence %NoNoNoNo
Carbon tracking per fieldYesNoNoNoNo
Equipment fleet + utilizationYesNoBestNoNo
Season P&L per fieldYesNoNoBestYes

Source: Public product documentation and pricing pages as of April 2026. Climate FieldView ($299-499/yr), JD Operations Center (free with Deere hardware), Bushel Farm ($19-49/mo), Granular (enterprise pricing).

60-Second Onboarding

Type your zip code. See your farm's weather, soil, and market data instantly. Connect your equipment account to see everything else.

Step 1: Zip Code (30 seconds)

Farm name, zip code, email, password. Four fields. That's it. No field boundaries. No equipment serial numbers. No soil test uploads.

Step 2: Instant Intelligence (60 seconds)

Map centered on your farm. SSURGO soil overlay. Today's weather and forecast. Commodity prices. Pest risk. County yield benchmarks. All auto-populated from your zip code — zero manual input.

Step 3: Connect Equipment (2 minutes)

One click: "Connect John Deere." OAuth consent. Fields, boundaries, equipment, and 3 years of yield data appear on the map within 30 seconds. Also supports Case IH and shapefile upload.

Step 4: You're Done

Full dashboard with field-level risk analysis, dollar-valued recommendations, harvest windows, and break-even analysis. Add more data over time — the platform gets smarter with every season.

8 Data Sources. $50/month.

Almost everything is free US government data. The intelligence layer — combining and interpreting these sources into financial decisions — is the value.

Free Sources (7 of 8)

Weather (Open-Meteo + NWS), soil profiles (USDA SSURGO), county benchmarks (USDA NASS), pest models (published degree-day science), input costs (USDA AMS), carbon factors (EPA + COMET), satellite imagery (Sentinel-2).

One Paid Source

Commodity futures via Barchart OnDemand: $50/month for 10-minute delayed corn, soybean, wheat, soy oil futures. Cash prices from USDA are free. The $50 is the entire platform data cost — not per customer.

Built for farmers who think in margins, not just bushels

The question isn't "what's my yield?" — it's "which fields make money, what's at risk, and what should I do about it before it's too late?"