News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 30, 2015
Help is on the Way: Remote Support App Brings "Live" Ag Experts to Farmers
Via Any Smartphone
DALLAS CENTER, IOWA –Farmers regularly depend on off-farm experts to help solve
pressing issues, and those experts are often spread too thin. Everybody seems to be left
fighting the clock and Mother Nature to get critical farm work done or decisions made.
With a new application from AgriSync, farmers now access real-time, video-first
advice right from their mobile devices. Agriculture experts can be virtually in more
places at once and can skip the travel and scheduling delays of getting physically out
to the farm.
The importance of not waiting that extra half-day or two for advice can be the difference
between crop success or loss.
Common farm issues that lend themselves to the AgriSync solution include: precision
technology troubleshooting, evaluating crop health, and equipment setup. Several
agriculture advisor groups already see the value for this method of providing support. “It
is a great tool to help us help our clients,” said Mark Johnson, field agronomist for Iowa
State University (ISU). “When agriculture advisors cover eight to 10 counties like we do,
AgriSync could be a substantial savings of time and expense.” That translates into better
service to the farmer clients of ISU, at a lower cost of delivery.
Using standard smartphone capabilities, AgriSync allows all trusted advisors –
agronomists, service technicians, and precision agricultural specialists for instance – to
see what their farmer customer sees in a real time video support session. Farmers use
AgriSync to get better support with less frustration, maximizing uptime and improving
their return on technology and other investments.
-- 2 -Simplicity and openness are keys in AgriSync’s design. Farmers can access all their
trusted advisors together in one place, regardless of the advisor’s product or service
brand. AgriSync is a single point of access to all advisors when a visual-first support need
arises.
For advisors, AgriSync is an additional tool for providing the best possible customer
support. Subject matter experts use it to spread their expertise more effectively.
AgriSync's features help advisors better see and measure their customer support success
across their team.
Craig Marsh with Complete Agronomy Solutions, an independent agronomy advisory
firm based in South Dakota and Nebraska, notes AgriSync is “a platform to stay better
connected with our crop consulting clients as well as our own team of agronomists.” He
added that “real-time, in-field issues can now be shared with the grower an as an instant
alert for those scouting other farms.”
A focus on agriculture’s human element has driven AgriSync’s development. "We see a
real opportunity to serve the farmers and their trusted advisors who are on the front lines
trying to make decisions and use the latest technologies,” said Casey Niemann, President
of AgriSync, Inc. “With the AgriSync app, we provide an additional, user-friendly way
for those two groups to work together to get more out of the powerful technologies and
tools they are already working with,” Niemann continued.
Farmers can download the AgriSync app and use it free forever on any Android or Apple
mobile device. It is available for both farmers and advisors at the Google Play Store and
the Apple App Store.
About AgriSync: AgriSync is a privately held company founded in 2014 with the
mission to help farmers and the people they rely on connect simply and effectively to
make farming less complicated and more productive. Built by a team of ten, the
AgriSync app maximizes the use of technology for farmers and lowers the cost of quality
service delivery for advisors. For more information, visit www.agrisync.com.
For more on the problem AgriSync helps solve, watch the video at
http://bit.ly/AgriSyncVideo .
Media Contacts:
Casey Niemann
President, AgriSync, Inc.
(515) 200-3262
[email protected]
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