Climate Corp., Claas co-operate on connectivity

Bayer’s digital ag firm has a new agreement with farm equipment maker Claas for easier data exchange through the Claas API.

The agreement announced recently by Claas and Bayer’s Climate Corp. will give farmers the option to connect their Climate FieldView platform with the Claas Telematics portal via the Claas API (application programming interface).

That option, the companies said, will ensure “seamless transfer of harvest information and insights” from Claas Telematics directly to FieldView.

“Reliable data flows are essential for precision farming,” the companies said. “Successful fertilizer, crop protection and planting and sowing strategies depend upon access to accurate information about the previous years’ yields and site-specific yield differences.”

The Automatic Documentation add-on option in Claas Telematics allows for “driver-independent, field-specific and site-specific” documentation — a “complete overview of each field worked taking account of all recorded parameters,” the companies said.

On top of machine data and consumption figures, yield data and measurements from NIR (near-infrared) sensors, for example, can also be documented.

When a farmer connects a Claas Telematics account to a FieldView account via the Claas API, the documented harvest values from the Telematics system are retrieved and sent to the FieldView user’s inbox as “posting proposals.”

The user can select the files he or she would like to sync with a FieldView account and further process the complete field-related documentation in FieldView.

With this connectivity, yield values and yield maps from a Claas combine can be used in FieldView to generate “site-specific planting prescriptions or fertilizer maps for the coming season,” the companies said.

An individual user’s agronomic information is exchanged only between the accounts of FieldView and Claas Telematics customers who chose to enable the offering, the companies said, adding that farmers or contractors can independently revoke the connection in the Claas Telematics or FieldView portal at any time and disable the data exchange.