Find Your Competitive Advantage
Future success of U.S. growers depends upon making the most of farm data.
Genetic Gain Performance Metric Accelerates Agricultural Productivity
Our successful development and deployment of a genetic gain metric is an important advance for both Syngenta and the entire agricultural industry.
2017 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics Winner Announced
They put a great deal of thought and contemplation into a very complex problem, and then solved it systematically.
Putting a Price on Farm Data
Farm data has immense value despite being difficult to quantify. Brazil’s meteoric rise in soybean production demonstrates how data analytics can transform agriculture and boost…
Can Artificial Intelligence Save Agriculture?
Published 8/8/2017 | Updated on 4/2/2025 Published on Michigan Farm News (Joseph Byrum) Machines began replacing humans in agriculture quite some time ago. Nostalgia aside,…
Joseph Byrum Endorses ‘The Innovation Code: The Creative Power of Constructive Conflict’ Book by Jeff DeGraff
Jeff DeGraff’s The Innovation Code gives executives the roadmap for how to survive and grow: an innovation culture and processes optimized to create value.
Agriculture Analytics: Solutions Reflect Farmland’s True Value
Each percentage point shift in farmland value moves the national ledger to the tune of $26 billion.
A Conversation With Joseph Byrum, Ph.D., MBA, PMP
A little bit of optimization has big positive environmental impacts. It’s a win-win for everyone involved and it’s the best sustainable development play.
Open Innovation Success Story: Idea Connection and Joseph Byrum
My mantra for business survival in the biotechnology sphere is ‘Unlearn. Transform. Reinvent’.
Advancing to the Next Level: Data as Agriculture’s New Currency Part 3
From fax machines to real-time sensors—discover why outdated data collection is costing farmers billions and how to fix it.
The Farmer’s Perspective: Data as Agriculture’s New Currency Part 2
From worthless sales pitches to incompatible datasets—discover why farmers can’t unlock their data’s value and who really owns it.
Big Data Is Transforming How Scientists Create Better Seeds
Byrum’s team includes biologists, agronomists, mathematicians – even an experimental physicist. Once you present a problem in a way everyone can work on, he says,…
