Tim Marquis is Senior Product Manager, Precision Ag Analytics at John Deere. Prior to that, he led the ag product portfolio for Uptake Technologies. Before arriving at Uptake, Tim was Meteorologist / Ag Solutions Expert at Weather Decision Technologies Inc. He also worked in several aspects of meteorology, acquiring a Bachelors and then a Masters in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma and Iowa State University. He acquired two years of experience working at the Storm Prediction Center and the National Weather service office in Green Bay, WI, bringing practical weather knowledge from the government sector to the private weather industry.
Data Management
June 25, 2018
There is no doubt that advancements in genetics, precision agriculture, and innovative farming practices have all played an instrumental role in increasing field production. When examining field production in the U.S., it is clear the agriculture revolution that has...
Data Management
May 10, 2018
Growers such as Steve Pitstick can now use new intelligence gained from industrial AI seamlessly and autonomously in the context of their daily workflow to make smarter decisions.
I go to great lengths to speak with...
Data Management
April 12, 2018
Today, a seemingly endless amount of ag data flows from growers’ fields into a host of technology platforms. It is top of mind given the Facebook data breach involving Cambridge Analytica that compromised millions of users’ personal information. With...
Data Management
March 15, 2018
Data is undeniably a valuable asset. Yet, in the ag ecosystem, who’s seeing the value from it?
A recent article on PrecisionAg.com highlights how growers aren’t seeing value from data since, “The yield map book usually serves as a coaster...
Data Management
January 23, 2018
Growers are very mindful of their data and the importance of owning the rights to it. Even still, many are willingly giving their data to corporations in order to improve their productivity, increase their yield, and make their farms...
Market Watch
December 6, 2017
Many agronomists, farmers, and VC groups monitoring the agtech world are proclaiming the startup boom is over. Investments are down, acquisitions are high, and many startups go bust.
Perhaps rapid, new growth in the space is fading, but I disagree...
Data Management
November 7, 2017
As the harvest season comes to a close, a quick look at Twitter gives us some insights into how things went. Many had great shots of harvesters and grain carts with the next generation driving them, which was amazing...
Market Watch
October 9, 2017
Across the American Heartland, growers have started harvesting their crops for what the USDA predicts will be a good yield year — one with larger corn and record soybean yields. That bounty is partially due to the ag community’s...
Market Watch
September 8, 2017
At the PrecisionAg Innovation Series earlier this year, retailers and growers both expressed the need to gather data and the frustration they felt with the lack of services available to refine it into actionable insights.
The precision ag landscape is...
Data Management
July 5, 2017
Telematics data is readily becoming common place thanks to smart edge devices in ag equipment. Many groups have begun storing and quantifying this data set with the hopes of better understanding the machine. However, the value of that data...
Data Management
May 25, 2017
A hot topic in the precision ag revolution is the idea ag data will become a form of currency. Many have emphatically stated the value of data, and growers are starting to ask, “Where’s the money for my data?”
On...
Data Management
April 26, 2017
Recently, Joe Byrum wrote an excellent article on the state of machine learning in agriculture. In it, Joe highlighted one of the biggest challenges facing FMIS and other tech venture backed groups:
“… most agricultural technology startups today are pushed...
Data Management
March 28, 2017
Now more than ever is it important for FMIS groups, seed companies, and herbicide manufacturers to use high-resolution weather data in their platform so that their growers can prevent the growing dicamba drift issue.
Dicamba drift...
Data Management
March 7, 2017
By far, the most popular question I am asked at any agricultural conference is about the weather and how it pertains to the upcoming growing season. Due to the popularity of that question, the ag industry has been inundated...