From the Field to the Algorithm
Brian Hargrove spent his first career as a certified crop adviser managing large-scale grain operations across Iowa and Nebraska. He watched farms collect more sensor and satellite data than they knew what to do with, while the tools available were either too expensive for independent operators or too shallow to be actionable.
CropMind started in 2021 as a small consulting project to help a dozen farms make better use of the data they were already collecting. Within two seasons, the approach had become a software product. We are now a team of 27 based in Des Moines, with agronomists, data scientists, and engineers working side by side.
We are not trying to replace the judgment of experienced farmers and agronomists. We are trying to give them information that makes that judgment sharper.
