Margy Eckelkamp • April 15, 2026 12:16 PM
https://www.thedailyscoop.com/news/retail-training/how-growmarks-new-ai-agronomy-agent-turns-data-overload-field-level-wins
“When we look at who we need to be for our farmer customers in 2035, technology has to be at the core,” says Brendan Bachman, FS agronomy director. “I don’t think we see it as an option. We have to embrace technology for who we need to become in the next 10 years.”
As such, Growmark is embedding AI into the myFS Agronomy platform. The “AI Agronomy Agent” is a specialized tool built on the Anthropic Claude model, customized with Growmark’s proprietary data and Intelinair’s interface.
The Data Inflection Point
Agriculture has moved from a lack of data to “paralysis by analysis.” Growmark is acting now to turn decades of raw data into “decision aids” to manage risk and associate value.
The AI Agronomy Agent is designed to act as a digital assistant for the crop specialist, and will be exclusively available to FS crop specialists for 2026.
“It doesn’t take out the art of agronomy. Because it allows the FS crop specialists to create their own ecosystem of tools and technology to apply the agronomic recommendations that they’ve seen justified,” Bachman says. “And we’re training our team to be cautionary about just taking what the AI tools as the gospel and applying that to a farmer’s field without any critical thought process from a professional agronomic lens.”
The technology supports, rather than replaces, human expertise.
Speed to Insight
The “why” is driven by efficiency. Processes that previously took hours or days of manual data cleaning now take minutes, allowing agronomists to spend more time on strategy and less on spreadsheets. The AI tool uses planting, weather, environmental models, as-applied information, in-season crop insights, yield information, soil test information, as well as many different source materials on management practices.