Vanguard

Name

Vanguard

Website

https://vanguardag.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1992

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Tulare, California-based agriculture services firm (founded 1992) purportedly providing crop nutrition, in-field sensor technology, labor efficiency, regulatory compliance, and water management to growers. Primary web domain currently parked, leaving operations unverified.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Services

NAICS

Support Activities for Crop Production (1151)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS) & Digital Recordkeeping (AFABAMAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Irrigation, Water & Energy Efficiency Operations Advisory (AFACAJAM), Farm Technology Enablement & Data Integration Advisory (FMIS/ERP, IoT, Decision Support) (AFACAJAG), Asset, Fleet & Maintenance Management Advisory (Equipment/Facilities) (AFACAJAJ)

Keywords

• Crop nutrition services
• Agricultural sensor technology
• Water management services
• Labor efficiency solutions
• Regulatory compliance services

Headquarters

HQ city

Tulare

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

Vanguard provides crop nutrition products and advisory, in-field sensor technology for agricultural monitoring, labor efficiency services, regulatory compliance support, and water management services to farming operations. The company's domain (vanguardag.com) currently displays a parked GoDaddy page with no active website content.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Crop Nutrition Crop nutrition products and advisory services for farming operations, focused on supporting crop productivity through input recommendations and nutrient management.
• In-Field Sensor Technology In-field sensor technology deployed for agricultural monitoring and data collection on farming operations.
• Labor Efficiency Services Services to improve labor efficiency in farming operations.
• Regulatory Compliance Services Support services that help farming operations meet regulatory compliance requirements.
• Water Management Services Water management services for agricultural operations.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Broad incumbents

• Nutrien Ag Solutions: Nutrien Ag Solutions is the largest U.S. direct-to-grower ag retailer, selling crop nutrition and protection products alongside agronomic services and digital tools. It is comparable as a broad incumbent offering the same crop-input + advisory bundle Vanguard sells, but with national scale and its own proprietary digital platform.
• Wilbur-Ellis: Wilbur-Ellis is a large, established US ag-input distributor and advisory services company with a deep Western U.S. footprint. It is comparable because, like Vanguard, it bundles crop nutrition/inputs with agronomic advisory and water/irrigation services to growers, but at materially larger scale and a broader geographic reach.
• Helena Agri-Enterprises: Helena is a national crop-input and agronomic-services company selling fertilizers, crop protection, and proprietary advisory offerings to growers. Comparable to Vanguard because both operate at the intersection of crop nutrition inputs and PCA-style advisory services, with Helena operating at much larger national scale.
• Trimble Agriculture: Trimble Agriculture provides precision-ag software, guidance, and water-management tools (including IrrigateIQ) to growers and advisors globally. It overlaps with Vanguard's in-field sensor and water management work, but as a broad incumbent spanning hardware, SaaS, and services across many crops and geographies.

Direct peers

• Semios: Semios is a precision-agriculture platform focused on permanent and high-value tree, vine, and row crops, combining in-field sensors, weather data, and compliance/recordkeeping tools. It maps directly to Vanguard's sensor-technology + regulatory-compliance + irrigation offering and competes for similar California Central Valley customers.
• Tule Technologies: Tule Technologies provides in-field sensor and irrigation decision-support services specifically for California specialty and permanent crops. It directly overlaps the sensor-technology and water management portion of Vanguard's offering and targets the same Tulare/Central Valley customer base.
• Lindsay Corporation: Lindsay manufactures irrigation equipment and offers FieldNET, a remote irrigation management and monitoring platform widely used in the Western U.S. It is a direct peer to Vanguard's water management service line — both sell irrigation optimization, scheduling, and field sensing to growers — though Lindsay is equipment-led and Vanguard is service-led.
• CropQuest: CropQuest is a crop-advisory and precision-ag services firm that provides agronomic recommendations, soil and crop monitoring, and water management to growers in the High Plains and Western U.S. It is a direct peer to Vanguard given the nearly identical mix of nutrition advisory, sensor-driven monitoring, and irrigation/water management services.

Emerging players

• Sound Agriculture: Sound Agriculture develops efficiency-boosting crop nutrition inputs and on-farm decision support. It is an adjacent emerging player in the crop-nutrition + data-driven-advisory space where Vanguard operates, but tech/product-led rather than service-led.
• WiseConn: WiseConn provides irrigation monitoring and water-management software/drip automation for permanent crops, headquartered in California. It is an emerging direct competitor in the irrigation-monitoring subset of Vanguard's offering and is most relevant for the water management service line to Central Valley growers.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Vanguard_Ag

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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