Climate Corporation
The Climate Corporation is an agricultural technology company that develops digital tools to help farmers improve productivity, manage risk, and make data-driven decisions. Founded in 2006 and acquired by Monsanto (now part of Bayer) in 2013, the company focuses on combining agronomic science, weather data, and field data analytics. Its flagship platform, Climate FieldView, provides insights on planting, input use, and yield performance across farm operations.
AI Strategy
The Climate Corporation leverages machine learning, geospatial analytics, and large-scale weather and field datasets to optimize agronomic decisions for row-crop farmers. Its strategy centers on integrating heterogeneous data sources (equipment telemetry, satellite imagery, soil and weather data) into a unified platform that delivers prescriptive recommendations on planting, input application, and risk management. As part of Bayer, it also focuses on embedding digital insights into seed and crop protection offerings and partnering across the ag ecosystem for data integrations.
Key AI Products
Financials
Funding
Business Focus
Competitive Analysis
Strengths
- •Strong parent backing and integration with Bayer’s seed and crop protection portfolio
- •Large installed base and data network effects from millions of acres under management
- •Robust agronomic and weather data science capabilities
- •Deep integrations with major equipment OEMs and precision hardware
- •Recognized brand in digital agriculture and precision farming
Challenges
- •Farmer concerns about data ownership and privacy, especially under large corporate ownership
- •Dependence on row-crop markets in North America and select geographies
- •Intense competition from OEM-native platforms (e.g., John Deere) and other digital ag startups
- •Complexity of integrating heterogeneous equipment and data sources on-farm
- •Limited transparency into standalone financial performance within Bayer
Strategic Partnerships
Wholly owned subsidiary; Climate Corporation operates as Bayer’s digital farming arm, integrating digital tools with Bayer’s seed and crop protection portfolio.
Data integration partnerships enabling farmers to stream equipment data from John Deere machinery into Climate FieldView for analytics and decision support.
Equipment and data integrations allowing Case IH machinery to connect with Climate FieldView for in-cab data visualization and cloud analytics.
Integration agreements to connect AGCO equipment and telemetry with the FieldView platform, broadening compatibility across fleets.
Technology collaboration around planter hardware and data collection to enhance the quality and granularity of agronomic data feeding FieldView analytics.