Soy growers and other agriculture groups are praising AgGateway for finding an easier way for farmers using precision ag to compile and analyze data from various sources.

AgGateway companies worked together to create ADAPT to solve the problem and last week, the American Soybean Association (ASA), along with other ag groups, sent a letter to the AgGateway Board of Directors supporting the format.

“ADAPT will eliminate the major pain points to the broad use of precision ag data by easily enabling interoperability between different software and hardware applications,” the groups wrote in the letter. “We understand the ADAPT solution allows each equipment manufacturer to keep its own proprietary software and technology in the cab and monitor, but allow participating companies to ‘export to’ and ‘import from’ a common, open-source ADAPT file format. This will allow Farm Management Information Software (FMIS) companies to program once and be able to receive data from all companies using the ADAPT format, including other FMIS companies. It also will allow an FMIS to export a prescription to any monitor that is using ADAPT.”

Several ag tech providers have agreed to release plug-ins for ADAPT and ASA encourages Farm Management Information Software (FMIS) to support and integrate the framework in the near future.

Click here to read the letter.