Crop Quest, Inc.

What Crop Quest, Inc. does

Crop Quest, Inc. is an employee-owned (ESOP) crop consulting and agricultural production management company headquartered in Dodge City, Kansas, founded in 1992. The company delivers professional agronomic advisory services to farm producers across a seven-state High Plains trade area covering Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska, primarily through a network of over 70 full-time field agronomists. Service offerings span crop scouting, soil sampling (composite, zone, and grid), fertilizer and ag-chemical recommendations, water and irrigation management, an Excess Soil Fertility Study for farmland tax purposes, and a comprehensive Precision Ag Services bundle that includes farm mapping, soil texture mapping, management zones, variable rate seeding and irrigation, yield analysis, and drone feedlot inventory.

The company's underlying technology is a regional precision agriculture stack combining satellite imagery, variable rate prescription generation, grid and zone soil sampling, electromagnetic (EM) soil texture mapping, crop health imagery, and yield analysis tools, delivered through field agronomists and complemented by a newer Digital Farm Consulting remote platform with Foundation and Evolution tiers. Crop advisors sell no products, generating revenue through professional consulting fees for unbiased agronomic recommendations based on certified lab analysis.

Go-to-market is sales-led and direct-to-farmer, executed through the embedded agronomist network and supplemented by content marketing (Ag News blog, newsletter), social media, and Grower Focus events. The customer base is a long-tail of SMB farm producers with a horizontal segmentation approach; no enterprise anchor accounts are disclosed. Ownership is structured as an ESOP, with membership in the ESOP Association, and there is no parent company, outside institutional investor, or public listing.

Name

Crop Quest, Inc.

Legal name

Crop Quest, Inc.

Website

https://cropquest.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Consulting Services

NAICS

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

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Yield Optimization & Crop Performance Consulting (AFACABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Crop Scouting & Field Monitoring Services (AFACABAD), Plant Tissue, Soil & Water Sampling Coordination (Agronomy-Focused) (AFACABAH), Nutrient Management Planning & Fertility Programs (AFACABAB), Crop Scouting & Pest/Disease Detection (Digital Scouting, Computer Vision, Alerts) (AFAGALAI)

Keywords

• Crop consulting services
• Agronomy services
• Precision agriculture
• Soil sampling
• Crop scouting

Headquarters

HQ city

Dodge City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Crop Consulting Services: Professional agronomic consulting fees for services including soil sampling, crop scouting, fertilizer recommendations, ag-chemical recommendations, and precision ag services. Crop Quest crop advisors sell no products and make unbiased recommendations based on certified lab analysis.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Crop Quest, Inc. is an employee-owned agricultural consulting firm that provides fee-based crop production advice to farmers in the U.S. High Plains. Its agronomists deliver in-season crop scouting, soil sampling and fertility recommendations, irrigation/water management, and precision-agriculture prescription services, and the company has extended these offerings into a Digital Farm Consulting (Remote Farm Consulting) service for growers outside its traditional service area.

Product overview

Crop Quest, Inc. is an employee-owned crop consulting company offering a comprehensive portfolio of agricultural services through a network of over 70 agronomists across the High Plains. The core offering centers on Crop Consulting Services including crop scouting, fertilizer and ag-chemical recommendations, and water management. Supporting these are specialized service modules: Soil Sampling Services (composite, zone, and grid sampling), Crop Scouting Services with health imagery, the Excess Soil Fertility Study for tax purposes, Water Management Services with variable rate irrigation, and Digital Farm Consulting for remote clients. The Precision Ag Services bundle provides advanced offerings including farm mapping, soil texture mapping, management zones, variable rate seeding and irrigation, yield analysis, and drone inventory services. The Remote Farm Consulting program extends these services through two tiers—Foundation and Evolution—to growers outside the traditional trade area.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• In-Season Crop Scouting Recurring in-field scouting during the growing season to monitor crop health, pests, diseases, and growth stages, with recommendations returned to the grower. Delivered by Crop Quest's 70+ full-time agronomists across the High Plains.
• Soil Sampling and Fertility Recommendations Soil sampling with laboratory analysis and tailored fertility/lime recommendations to support crop nutrient planning and input-efficiency decisions for row-crop and irrigated farm operators.
• Irrigation and Water Management Consulting Agronomic advisory on irrigation scheduling and water-use efficiency for irrigated row-crop operations in the High Plains, addressing declining aquifer levels and input-cost pressures.
• Precision Agriculture Services Use of precision-agriculture technology (including GPS guidance, yield mapping, and variable-rate technology) to develop zone-based seeding, fertility, and crop-protection prescriptions tailored to in-field variability.
• Digital Farm Consulting / Remote Farm Consulting Remote, digitally delivered agronomic consulting for growers located outside the firm's traditional High Plains service region, providing fertility, irrigation, and precision-ag recommendations without on-site scouting.

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ESOP AssociationminorOthersCrop Quest is an employee-owned company recognized by the ESOP Association, which promotes employee stock ownership. The company displays the ESOP badge on their website indicating membership and compliance with ESOP standards.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Premier Crop Systems: Independent agronomic consulting firm providing variable-rate fertility, precision ag, and unbiased crop recommendations to growers, with overlapping service model and customer type to Crop Quest.

Broad incumbents

• Nutrien Ag Solutions: World's largest crop input retailer offering agronomic services, precision ag, and digital farming tools alongside fertilizer and chemistry; competes for the same farm customer wallet as Crop Quest at greater scale.
• WinField United (Land O'Lakes): Ag retail and crop inputs platform providing precision ag services, agronomy, and Answer Plot data-driven recommendations broadly across US crop regions, including the High Plains.
• Helena Agri-Enterprises: National distributor of crop inputs and provider of agronomic services, including soil analysis and crop protection recommendations; operates in many of the same states as Crop Quest.
• Wilbur-Ellis: Agribusiness with a crop input and advisory division providing agronomy services and precision ag across the western US, including parts of Crop Quest's trade area.

Emerging players

• Bayer Climate FieldView: Industry-leading digital farming platform from Bayer offering satellite imagery, variable rate prescriptions, and yield analytics; increasingly overlaps with Crop Quest's Digital Farm Consulting tier.
• Taranis: AI-powered crop scouting and aerial imagery platform providing digital pest/disease detection and field-level insights; competes for the digital scouting portion of Crop Quest's service stack.
• Indigo Ag: Agriculture technology company offering digital agronomy, microbial products, and sustainability/carbon services; partial overlap with Crop Quest's precision ag and crop advisory offerings.

Regional players

• Simplot Grower Solutions: Ag retail and crop inputs arm of J.R. Simplot providing agronomy, fertilizer, and precision ag services across the western US, partially overlapping the High Plains footprint.
• GROWMARK: Farm cooperative system providing agronomy, crop protection, and precision ag services across the Midwest; competes for producer mindshare in nearby geographies to Crop Quest.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cropquestinc
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/CropQuestInc
• Facebookfacebook.com/cropquest
• Instagraminstagram.com/cropquest
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/crop-quest-inc-

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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

M&A

Investments

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

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