EarthSense Joins John Deere’s 2020 Startup Collaborator Program

John Deere, a world leader in providing advanced agriculture products and services, announced EarthSense among the company’s 2020 Startup Collaborator program participants. The program focuses on enhancing companies that align with John Deere’s work and offer a potential value add to customers.

"The first year of the John Deere Startup Collaborator program showed us and the startups involved the tremendous mutual value of working closely together," said Julian Sanchez, director of strategy and business development at Deere's Intelligent Solutions Group. "We're excited to continue building on the program's success."

EarthSense, an Illinois Ventures portfolio company, is creating dramatic new possibilities for crop breeders, plant protection products developers, crop scientists, and field agronomists. Their first robot—TerraSentia—improves the quantity, accuracy, cost and speed of in-field plant trait data collection, especially for under-canopy traits that cannot be obtained by other technologies.

To learn more about the partnership, click here. To learn more about EarthSense’s exciting technology, click here.