Power Up Your Tech Now for Scouting

Jun 03, 2025


We all know diligent scouting is critical for the early detection of in-field problems such as insects, diseases, and weed pressure. If you’re not supplementing traditional scouting efforts with the technology tools available through various apps, you could be missing out on opportunities to save time, increase efficiency, and optimize your yield and return on investment potential.

Here are some of our top picks:
 
Climate FieldView
Climate FieldView is an integrated digital agriculture tool that provides farmers with a comprehensive, connected suite of digital tools, providing farmers a deeper understanding of their fields so they can make more informed operating decisions to optimize yields, maximize efficiency and reduce risk.
iOS
ANDROID
FieldView Cab
FieldView Cab is a simple and powerful farm management app that enables growers to collect and understand field data through rich maps and reports. 
iOS
Field Alytics Mobile
Viewable access to key information such as products, rates, totals, action dates, and crops can all be verified and updated. Field Alytics mobile can also document in field scouting events and create digital reports from all the scouting activities performed in a day.
iOS
Yara CheckIT
Yara CheckIT is an agricultural smartphone app that gives farmers a photographic library of the crops to allow a simple and fast identification of possible nutrient deficiencies. 
iOS
 
ID Weeds
ID Weeds allows you to search for weeds by their common or latin name, view a list of weeds, or identify weeds based upon a number of different characteristics.
iOS
Weed Identifier
 The BASF Weed ID App aims to provide an easy to use reference guide to the major broad-leaved weeds and grass-weeds in the US supporting weed identification of 140 species.
iOS
AgPhD
The Ag PhD Field Guide helps you to identify problem pests out in your field. You can browse weeds by name or by photo.
iOS
ANDROID
 

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