agriculture Blog Posts

NASA Harvest: Larger wheat harvest in Ukraine than expected

News

Analysts at NASA Harvest have been tracking the impact to agriculture in Ukraine since the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian war, and their latest study (re-posted in full from NASA Earth Observatory below) shows that farmers have harvested 26.6 million tons of wheat in 2022 – several million tons higher than expected in […]

CornCaster: How Planet’s Yield Forecasting Solution is Helping Agriculturists and Economists Get Ahead of This Year’s Harvest

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Data analysis and visualizations contributed by: Guyon Duifhuizen, Max Borrmann, and Rob Simmon This harvest season, global eyes are watching the United States’ agricultural yield reports with anticipation after fields around the world have been challenged by extreme weather, drought, heat waves, and political turmoil. The United States is the world’s largest […]

Satellites and Cows; Planet and Organic Valley Complete Pilot and Expand Collaboration Across Cooperative

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Download our Organic Valley case study here. We’re happy to announce that we have completed a successful pilot program with Organic Valley, a national organic food brand and independent cooperative of small family farms, to utilize satellite technology to efficiently measure pasture health on dairy farms. By using our near-daily satellite images, […]

Planet and Bayer Expand Strategic Relationship

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The mutual commitment seeks creative digital solutions to support sustainable agriculture  We are excited to share that we have expanded our strategic relationship with Bayer, a global company with core competencies in the life science fields of healthcare and nutrition. This expansion signals a significant scale up between the two companies. In […]

US Government Awards Planet EOCL Contract

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We are excited to announce that the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has selected Planet Labs Federal, Inc. (Planet Federal), our wholly owned subsidiary, for an award to the Electro-Optical Commercial Layer (EOCL) contract. EOCL is the U.S. government’s industry-defining procurement vehicle for unclassified commercial satellite imagery and represents the Federal government’s significant […]

Planet and Leaf Partner to Provide Agricultural Insights For Developers

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Our data is now available through Leaf, an agricultural data infrastructure company, enabling developers to build informed agricultural products. Leaf’s unified data API helps streamline farm data integrations into a standardized format. From this API, software developers build useful products for the agricultural industry, including farm optimization tools, outcome-based financing, agronomic recommendations, […]