Remember when mobile apps first exploded onto the scene and became quite the rage. The year was 2010. The slogan “There’s an app for that!” took off, the app stores emerged, and the tech slang ‘app’ was voted the 2010 ‘Word of the Year’ by the American Dialect Society.
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AgButler
AgButler is a new way to hire high-quality, on-demand labor for your farm or ranch. Set up a profile as a laborer, employer, or both to post or find a job across multiple agricultural industries. Use the map feature to search for jobs near your location. The platform serves as a solution to a rural labor shortage in America. Similar to “ride sharing” technology, the system allows farmers, ranchers and/or agribusinesses to connect with available laborers filtered by location, ratings, work experience, and availability. All done within a secure payment structure organized in the app. Android, iPad, iPhone
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Crop Nutrient Advisor
Nutrient Technologies’ Crop Nutrient Advisor mobile app allows agricultural producers to instantly identify crop nutrient deficiencies; get product recommendations; check spray tank compatibility; download label and SDS; and more. Growers, PCAs, or plant nutritionists can search for deficiency symptoms by crop to access images of visual symptoms. Android, iPad, iPhone
What's New
User-generated data with the ability to upload your own photos
Crop nutrient sufficiency guide allows you to look up data by crop and tissue sample timing to know if you need to apply fertilizer and what kind
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Farm Dog
Farm Dog is an end-to-end pest and disease management platform that saves you time while scouting in the field, improves your communication with your team, and creates a digital record of your scouting activities. Record observations, add photos and hot spots, and send reports directly from the field easily and quickly with Farm Dog. Full offline functionality means you're always focused on your operations. The app is also fully integrated with John Deere Operations Center. Android, iPad, iPhone
What's New
In-app user statistics to keep track of total visits, number of fields visited, acres scouted, etc.
Outbreak visualizations and efficacy ratings for a user's fields.
Targeted scouting with imagery and a customizable observation form in one easy-to-use interface.
Geo-targeted in-app alerts based on area observations (e.g., new pests found in the area), regional groups (e.g., USDA, Extension), and data insights (e.g., severity trends)
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Mix My Sprayer
The Mix My Sprayer app created by Clemson University aids with quick, accurate calculations of product mixes to be applied with spraying equipment. Users can create custom lists of favorite products by category. Simply add or select a product, insert values in each input box, and the app automatically calculates the amount of product to include in the user-defined mix size. Units for each input can be customized by tapping the unit buttons. Products are saved with the user settings last used. Android, iPad, iPhone
Yet, mobile apps were just scratching the surface in digital capabilities at that time. If you strike a comparison between the agricultural apps launched today versus those that were first introduced more than a decade ago, the difference is monumental. The majority of the apps ag professionals downloaded in 2010 performed some basic functions of computing and record keeping, which almost seem archaic compared to the apps of today.
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Today, technologies like IOT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) have migrated apps to another level, wherein everything is focused on giving users actionable insights. App developers continue to innovate new ways to solve problems, increase the availability of knowledge, and connect businesses to customers. Moreover, there are new e-commerce apps that have helped retailers increase their sales exponentially.
We’ve once again researched and evaluated the newest farming apps available for Androids, iPads, iPhones, and more. The apps listed in the slideshow above were either introduced or significantly updated in 2020. Also included are a few older apps that may have been off your radar but are definitely worthy of downloading.
Check out just a handful of this year’s list of best agriculture apps by scanning the slideshow above.
Highlights From Greenhouse Grower’s April 2024 Issue
To see the whole list of the best ag apps for 2021, visit CropLife. com.
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