Precision soil intelligence

Making sense of soil nutrients.

On-the-go soil nitrate sensing and machine learning that turn field variability into variable-rate nitrogen prescriptions — acre by acre, in real time.

  • Soil nitrate sensing
  • Variable-rate prescriptions
  • Biochar & carbon

What we do

Precision soil science

Three connected programs, one system: measure the soil, understand what it needs, then put the right product in the right place.

Biochar applied to an agronomy research field

Biochar systems

N-Sense pioneers biochar prescriptions, tailored to each field to address specific soil problems: degraded, eroded and low-organic-matter soils; sandy soils; low nutrient and water use efficiency; root-restricting layers; acidity; and poor internal drainage.

Improve soil quality, sequester carbon and increase productivity.

Young corn seedlings emerging in a managed field

Nutrient management

N-Sense’s proprietary algorithms convert any measured soil property data into actionable prescriptions — advanced recommendations for N, K, P, lime and zinc. In modern, technology-driven farming, our software lets a farmer be both fiscally and environmentally conscious.

UAN sidedress applicator working a corn field

Sidedress nitrogen

Industry-standard MRTN lacks precision. N-Sense has developed a proprietary algorithm for precision sidedress nitrogen that accounts for both yield history and weather risk management — for farmers striving to maximize nitrogen-use efficiency and profitability in corn production.

About us

Soil and landscape analytics, joined to a sensor.

Soil nitrate sensor at work in a field

Background

With many years of soils and agronomy experience, our goal is to integrate soil and landscape analytics with soil nitrate sensing technology so farmers can precision-manage nitrogen fertilizer within fields. That increases yields and farm profitability, and decreases the environmental impact of nitrogen fertilizer.

Corn crop being managed for yield and profitability

How it works

We use data analytics to generate high-resolution landscape maps of soils and elevation, predicted corn yields, estimated land value and overall farmland evaluation.

We are also developing sensing technology that uses, for the first time, a diamond coupled with a miniaturized and robust Fourier Transform Infrared spectrometer to measure soil nitrate in field-moist soil — in about one second.

Arable field prepared for fertilizer application

Our vision

We use landscape data for farmland evaluation, generating maps of soils and elevation, predicted corn yields and estimated land values, and we are developing a soil nitrate sensor that can write high-resolution prescriptions for precision nitrogen application.

Customers get high-resolution data and interpretive maps of their farm fields.

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Find out what your fields are actually telling you.

Whether you farm a section or run a commercial plant, we can show you where the next dollar of input is worth spending.