{"id":51248,"date":"2024-05-21T18:09:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T10:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/planet-extends-its-digital-farming-contract-with-germanys-basf\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T18:09:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T10:09:36","slug":"planet-extends-its-digital-farming-contract-with-germanys-basf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/planet-extends-its-digital-farming-contract-with-germanys-basf\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Extends its Digital Farming Contract with Germany\u2019s BASF"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>German smart agriculture company <strong>BASF Digital Farming GmbH<\/strong> will expand the scope of its existing contract with <strong>Planet Labs<\/strong> in order to access more data from Planet\u2019s Crop Biomass Planetary Variable analysis feed. In an announcement published Tuesday, BASF Digital Farming said it will increase its use of Planet\u2019s satellite data products to power its own \u201cXarvio\u201d digital farming products and services.<\/p>\n<p>Planet, which currently operates the world\u2019s largest constellation of Earth observation imaging satellites, signed its initial agreement with BASF in December 2018 and began providing data to support BASF\u2019s Xarvio service in early 2019. Financial details of the partnership and the recent partnership expansion were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Planet also said that with the demand for food supply steadily increasing, more companies like BASF are looking to move towards more sustainable and efficient farming solutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in a critical time for sustainable agriculture. High-cadence satellite data can provide revolutionary solutions to advance precision farming, yield estimation, and seed selection,\u201d Planet Co-Founder and CEO Will Marshall said in the announcement. \u201cBy expanding this strategic partnership with BASF, a global leader in the digital farming industry, we look forward to powering novel and effective tools to enable growers to get the best crop yields in the most sustainable and efficient ways.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German smart agriculture company BASF Digital Farming GmbH will expand the scope of its existing contract with Planet Labs in order to access more data from Planet\u2019s Crop Biomass Planetary Variable analysis feed. In an announcement published Tuesday, BASF Digital Farming said it will increase its use of Planet\u2019s satellite data products to power its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}