Iteris and Syngenta partner to provide ClearAg in Italy

Iteris, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITI), the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, recently announced it has entered into a partnership agreement with leading agriculture company Syngenta to provide ClearAg® with Italian language support, soil models and land surface modeling. The partnership enables Syngenta’s customers to access Iteris’ ClearAg Platform through the OptiMais service, which is part of Syngenta’s recently launched national Mais in Italy project.    

“The availability of ClearAg in Italian will support our customers and affiliate partners to combine productivity and efficiency for economic, social and environmental sustainability,” said Gianluca Fusco, Head of Marketing and Technical Organization in Italy for Corn in Syngenta. “As Syngenta creates a network for farmers and partners to collaborate and promote a new way of cultivating corn, our OptiMais service will provide access to ClearAg in Italian to help farmers increase corn productivity and harvested product quality and become more competitive.”

Syngenta is the first customer to purchase a subscription to ClearAg in Italian.

“We are excited to partner with Syngenta to deliver ClearAg agronomic and environmental insights in Italy to help farmers better manage challenges in corn production,” said John Lord, Iteris’ Manager for EMEA, Agriculture and Weather Analytics. “As Syngenta’s customers consider efficient use of water, crop health and quality, harvest management, and sustainable use of agrochemicals, Iteris’ ClearAg Platform will provide critical decision support analytics for corn production operations.”

Iteris ClearAg is a leading digital agriculture platform that delivers weather, water, soil and crop health data, in addition to advisory services to growers, researchers and other agribusinesses who need accurate, location-based information available on a worldwide basis. Iteris is the only weather information and data science company to apply Land Surface Modeling (LSM) technology to agronomic problems.