What if you knew your crop had disease before you could see it—or knew exactly which fields actually needed more nitrogen? This episode features two breakthrough ag technologies helping farmers make more profitable input decisions using data instead of guesswork.
Every season farmers face the same expensive questions:
At Tech Hub LIVE, Farm4Profit sits down with Kristine White, CEO of Spornado, and Jackson Stansell, CEO of Sentinel Ag, to explore two innovative technologies designed to answer those questions with data.
Kristine explains how Spornado captures airborne fungal spores before disease symptoms ever appear, allowing growers to make preventative fungicide decisions weeks earlier than traditional scouting. The conversation also dives into fungicide resistance testing, predictive disease modeling, and the future of automated disease alerts.
Jackson discusses Sentinel Ag's satellite-powered nitrogen management platform, which combines imagery, weather, soil characteristics, and proprietary calibration plots to help growers determine where—and whether—additional nitrogen is actually needed. The discussion expands into water management, nutrient efficiency, manure applications, and how AI could reshape agronomic decision-making.
The conversation also explores:
If your goal is making smarter decisions before writing another input check, this episode is packed with ideas worth considering.