Category: Agriculture

Here at AWS we are incorporating sustainability measures in our business to deliver on Amazon’s commitment to building a sustainable business for our customers and the planet. In 2019, Amazon co-founded The Climate Pledge—a commitment to be net zero carbon across our business by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement. Similar to our […]

Guest blog authored by Jack Tabaska and Ian Davis from the Bayer Crop Sciences team. At Bayer Crop Science we are applying modern genomic and data science methods to the challenges of global food production. Our research routinely produces enormous volumes of raw data that must be processed quickly and cost-effectively. Automated analysis pipelines (also […]

Utility companies depend on enormous amounts of data to keep the lights on for their customers. But collecting, transcribing, storing, sharing, and analyzing information from a large service area is a challenge, especially when the teams who gather and use that data are dispersed across a wide geographic area. Whether they’re conducting vegetation management, pole […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Introduction AGCO is an international Agriculture company focused on professional farm machinery that customers use through every phase of the farming process. AGCO’s Grain & Protein product lines include: a full-line of feed storage and delivery systems, feeders, scales, ventilation, […]

Authored by Anand Venkatraman, Bioinformatics Associate Research Scientist at Corteva Agriscience, and Srinivasarao Annapareddi, Cloud DevOps Engineer at Corteva Agriscience. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party author and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this post. — Data analysis in biological research today presents some […]

Increasingly, industrial customers across asset intensive industries such as manufacturing, energy, mining, transportation, and agriculture are leveraging new digital technologies to drive faster and more informed decisions in their industrial operations. ‘AWS for Industrial’ is a new initiative that features new and existing services and solutions from AWS and our Partners, which are built specifically […]

Bob Reiter, Head of R&D of Bayer Crop Science, joins Elizabeth Fastiggi, Worldwide Lead of Agriculture Business at AWS for a discussion on recent disruptions in the global food supply chain, examples of farmers building resiliency through data and analytics, and future trends for sustainability. Crop Science, a division of Bayer, provides a range of […]

What does it truly cost to run an orchard, a vineyard, a farm? How do you take into account all of the inputs from planting, fertilization, irrigation, pest management, harvesting costs, regulatory assessment fees, labor costs, equipment costs, and overhead costs compared to yields and returns? It is an enormous amount of information to keep […]

Feeding the world requires continuous innovation – and as data has become the force multiplier in agriculture – the need for an integrated ecosystem.  There is no single solution that solves for creating the Connected Farm because every operation is different and unique in the data it needs to operate. AWS customers have shared their […]

The selection of specific crops (corn, soybeans, wheat etc.) is dictated by the heat units and length of the growing season.  This is commonly calculated as Growing Degree Units.  The AWS Registry of Open Data contains global weather datasets dating back over 200 years enabling agricultural crop breeders in the seed/chemical/fertilizer business to optimize their […]