The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science)

What The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science) does

The Climate Corporation, operating as Climate LLC, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bayer AG and the operator of Climate FieldView, a digital farming platform serving commercial farmers, agricultural dealers, and agronomists across 30+ countries. The platform unifies four integrated software modules — Gather Information, Scout Fields, Build Prescriptions, and Analyze Data — that ingest structured field, weather, equipment, and agronomic data and generate seed prescriptions, yield analyses, and remote scouting outputs. Proprietary technology includes the FieldView Drive 2.0 hardware device for in-cab data capture, an agronomic modeling engine that combines historical, simulated, and farmer-supplied data, and a connectivity layer integrated with 60+ third-party agricultural technology partners including equipment OEMs (John Deere, CNH, Precision Planting) and adjacent software (Combyne).

The company monetizes through annual software subscriptions, one-time hardware sales (FieldView Drive 2.0, Starter Kit, display adapter kits), and premium on-farm consultation services, with a 15% discount channel available through authorized dealers. Its customer base is horizontally distributed across SMB commercial row-crop farmers rather than concentrated in any single enterprise account, and the platform is positioned as a Bayer Crop Science data layer that complements the parent's seed (e.g., Preceon Smart Corn System), crop protection, and regenerative agriculture (ForGround by Bayer) portfolios. Strategic control sits with Bayer AG following the 2018 acquisition of Monsanto, which had previously acquired The Climate Corporation in 2013.

Name

The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science)

Legal name

Climate LLC

Website

https://climate.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Climate LLC (a Bayer Crop Science subsidiary) operates Climate FieldView, a digital farming platform with hardware devices and predictive agronomic software serving commercial row-crop farmers, dealers, and agronomists across 30+ countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Agriculture / Farm Management Software

NAICS

Farm Management Services (115116), Support Activities for Crop Production (11511)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700), Farm Machinery & Equipment (3523)

akta.pro primary industry

Farm Data Management & Decision Support Services (FMIS Setup, Data Integration, Analytics) (AFACACAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Variable Rate Technology (VRT) & Prescription/Tasking Platforms (AFAAAFAE), Satellite Imagery & Monitoring Platforms (AFAAAFAI)

Keywords

• Digital farming software
• Precision agriculture
• Farm management software
• Agricultural data analytics
• Crop monitoring platform

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Subscription Services: Annual subscription model for Climate FieldView platform access, providing data analytics, field insights, prescription building, and scouting tools. Subscription tiers are available with personalized plans and full support.
2. Hardware Sales: Sale of FieldView Drive 2.0, FieldView Drive 2.0 Starter Kit, iPad Mounting Kit, Triple Vacuum Cup, and various display adapter kits (CNH, John Deere) for equipment compatibility.
3. Premium Services: Add-on services including on-farm consultation and premium support features.
4. Seed Prescriptions: Customized prescription generation for seed planting, sold as part of subscription or as add-on service.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

The Climate Corporation develops and operates Climate FieldView, a subscription-based digital farming platform that aggregates field data, equipment telematics, weather information, and agronomic modeling to help commercial farmers collect, visualize, and act on agronomic data. The company also sells proprietary hardware (FieldView Drive 2.0 and adapters) that captures equipment data and enables the platform, and offers Premium Services with on-farm consultation.

Product overview

Climate FieldView is a unified digital farming platform offering four integrated software modules—Gather Information, Scout Fields, Build Prescriptions, and Analyze Data—that work together to help farmers collect, visualize, and act on agronomic data from planning through harvest. The platform connects with 60+ third-party partners and integrates with complementary Bayer products including the Preceon Smart Corn System and ForGround sustainability programs. Hardware accessories like FieldView Drive 2.0 and various equipment adapters enable data connectivity across most equipment types, while Premium Services provides add-on consultation support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Climate FieldView™: The all-in-one digital farming solution platform that provides data-driven insights, field scouting, prescription building, and yield analysis for farmers.

Products and services

• Climate FieldView All-in-one digital farming platform for commercial farmers providing data collection from connected equipment, field scouting, prescription building, yield analysis, and integration with 60+ agricultural technology partners. Sold via annual subscription.
• FieldView Drive 2.0 Proprietary hardware device that connects to farming equipment to capture field data, provide GPS mapping, and wirelessly transmit seed scripts to planters. Sold as a one-time hardware purchase.
• FieldView Drive 2.0 Starter Kit Entry-level hardware package bundling FieldView Drive 2.0 with accessories to help new users connect equipment and begin using FieldView services.
• iPad Mounting Kit Mounting accessory for installing an iPad inside the cab of farm equipment for convenient FieldView platform access during field operations.
• FieldView Drive 2.0 Adapter for Serial/USB Adapter enabling FieldView Drive 2.0 connectivity with farming equipment that uses serial or USB data interfaces.
• CNH Display Adapter Kit Adapter kit that enables FieldView to integrate with CNH-brand equipment displays for data capture and prescription delivery.
• John Deere Greenstar Display Adapter Kit Adapter kit that enables FieldView to integrate with John Deere Greenstar displays for data capture and prescription delivery.
• Triple Vacuum Cup Mounting accessory using a triple vacuum cup system to secure FieldView equipment or iPads to cab windows.
• FieldView Premium Services Add-on subscription service providing on-farm consultation and personalized agronomic support to FieldView subscribers.
• ForGround by Bayer Bayer-led sustainability program that uses FieldView data capture to verify and reward farmers for adopting regenerative agriculture practices.
• Preceon Smart Corn System Bayer physical corn product line combined with FieldView digital tools to support farming profitability and sustainability.

Quantifiable outcome

• +5 bu/ac yield increase
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability7 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Precision PlantingcoreTechnology or Integration · 16 January 2024Precision Planting integration provides enhanced connectivity options for FieldView users, enabling improved data collection and equipment compatibility. This partnership was highlighted in the 2024 product experience improvements, allowing farmers to leverage Precision Planting equipment with FieldView platform.
• CombynecoreTechnology or Integration · 30 October 2023Combyne platform integration helps farmers better manage grain marketing and build profitability insights by connecting FieldView agronomic data with Combyne's grain marketing platform. This partnership enables farmers to link yield data with marketing decisions.
• FieldView Platform Partners (60+)coreTechnology or IntegrationOver 60 third-party partners supply applications and services that integrate with the FieldView platform, enabling broad ecosystem connectivity. Partners include equipment manufacturers, agronomic service providers, and agricultural technology companies. These Platform Participants enable farmers to share data across multiple systems.
• Dealers and DistributorscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAuthorized dealer and distributor network provides local sales, support, and exclusive 15% discount programs for Climate FieldView products. Dealers include agricultural equipment dealers, farm supply retailers, and agronomic service providers.
• ForGround by BayercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerForGround by Bayer is a sustainability initiative that connects directly with farmers to incentivize and measure sustainable practices. FieldView participation enables farmers to track and document sustainable agriculture practices for program participation.

Scale indicators6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• John Deere (Operations Center / See & Spray): John Deere's Operations Center is a digital farming platform that aggregates equipment, agronomic and field data, with See & Spray as a hardware-driven precision application product. It directly competes with Climate FieldView for the same row-crop farmer customer, with Deere holding an OEM-native data-collection advantage that FieldView's Drive 2.0 must integrate around.
• CNH Industrial (AFS Connect / Case IH AFS): CNH's AFS Connect platform (Case IH and New Holland) provides equipment telemetry, field data, and agronomic decision support to commercial farmers — the same use cases as FieldView. FieldView's CNH Display Adapter Kit exists specifically to bridge to AFS Connect data, illustrating direct head-to-head positioning.
• AGCO (Fuse / Precision Planting): AGCO's Fuse smart-farming platform and Precision Planting (an AGCO-owned business explicitly listed as a FieldView integration partner) deliver connected-equipment data, variable-rate prescriptions and agronomic insights to row-crop farmers globally — overlapping 1:1 with FieldView's four core modules.
• Trimble Ag (part of AGCO joint venture): Trimble Ag provides precision agriculture software, hardware (GPS/Guidance, Farmer Core, Trimble Ag Software) and FMIS solutions to commercial farmers. It is one of the closest functional competitors to FieldView across both variable-rate prescriptions and farm data management, with growing OEM integration across mixed fleets.
• Corteva Agriscience (Granular / Granular Insights): Granular (now Granular Insights) is a Corteva-owned farm management software platform offering field-data analytics, agronomic insights, and seed-script prescriptions — virtually identical to Climate FieldView. As Corteva is a seed/CP competitor to Bayer, it is a direct strategic peer.
• Farmers Edge: Farmers Edge provides a farm management platform with proprietary hardware (CanPlug), variable-rate prescriptions, imagery analytics, and sustainability/carbon program support. Despite recent financial restructuring, it remains a direct functional peer to FieldView across the same precision-ag SaaS+hardware+services wedge.

Broad incumbents

• Syngenta (Cropwise): Syngenta's Cropwise digital platform offers imagery, agronomic recommendations, and farm-management tools bundled with the company's crop-protection and seed portfolios. Like Bayer/Climate, Cropwise combines proprietary crop-input IP with a digital platform serving the same commercial farmer base, making it a broad incumbent peer.

Emerging players

• Taranis: Taranis provides AI-driven aerial crop intelligence and field-level imagery/scouting analytics to ag retailers and growers. It overlaps with the Scout Fields and remote-monitoring modules of FieldView but is narrower in scope, positioning it as an emerging specialist competing for imagery/scouting budgets.
• Bushel: Bushel is an ag-tech platform providing farm data ingestion, API infrastructure, and grain marketing/elevator apps that connect with equipment and grain buyers. FieldView's Combyne integration partnership reflects mutual overlap, though Bushel focuses more on data/sharing infrastructure than full agronomic prescription generation.

Others

• Climate-Tech Carbon / Ag Data Platforms (Indigo Ag, Granular Insights via Corteva, CIBO Technologies): Indigo Ag, CIBO Technologies and similar carbon/agronomic-data platforms participate in the same sustainability-program economy that ForGround by Bayer connects to via FieldView. They are enabling/adjacent players in the digital-farming ecosystem rather than direct equipment-integration competitors.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors14 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A6 records

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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