Will Raven's Recent Moves Solidify Autonomy in Agriculture?

By CropLife

In mid-October, I had spent part of one week visiting companies in the Iowa/Minnesota/South Dakota geography, writes Eric Sfiligoj at CropLife. One of my stops was to see the folks at Raven Industries in Sioux Falls, SD. At that time, the company was busy digesting how the 2019 growing season had played out for the long-time agricultural technology suppler.

“Overall, it was a good year for us, at least when you compare it to what kind of year we had in 2018,” said Nick Langerock, Raven Applied Technology U.S. Aftermarket Sales Manager & Marketing Manager. “And we spent some of our time growing, adding AgSync to our company and opening an office in Brazil to expand our Latin American operations.”

And since that visit took place, Raven has continued to go about growing its overall agricultural technology footprint. On October 31, the company announced that it had entered into an agreement to acquire majority ownership of DOT Technology Corp., a supplier of autonomous vehicles. Recently, DOT announced plans to work on an autonomous spreader with New Leader.

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