Exciting news for the future of Combyne

Bayer Crop Science and Combyne have joined their suite of digital farming tools. This acquisition aligns with Bayer’s broader effort to invest in solutions that support the increasingly digital management of farm operations.

Combyne will continue to operate independently from the broader Bayer organization. Through this acquisition, our aim is to also foster innovations that more seamlessly associate Bayer’s grain production management solutions with Combyne’s grain marketing management solutions. With added resources and association with a partner who shares our long term vision, we will continue to invest in the development of an integrated crop marketing management hub purposefully built around the needs of farmers.

What does this mean for you?

On a day-to-day basis, it’s business as usual. Combyne and Bayer are committed to offering the quality and service you’ve come to expect and deserve. On a more exciting note, the added resources and investment capabilities now available to Combyne will accelerate the build-out of many new features suggested by our users.

As such, you may notice in the coming months Combyne’s increased ability to plug into the software you love and use in your daily operations - both on-the-farm and off-the-farm software tools and apps. We continue to be firm believers in the need to break down the information silos that often exist across different software and that is required to enable better decision-making in farm operations. Accordingly, we will continue to prioritize the development of Combyne Connect over the course of 2023.

While we are exploring ways to create more seamless links between grain production and grain marketing management workflows, there are currently no formal plans or timelines to integrate Combyne and Climate FieldView™, Bayer’s digital farming platform. As we continue exploring, we actively welcome any ideas and suggestions on how Combyne and Climate FieldView (and other on farm software tools) might work together to improve farm operation management and decision-making as it relates to grain marketing.

The acquisition does not, and will not change Combyne’s Data Policy and commitment to stewarding customer data. Both Combyne and FieldView, through their commitments to their Ag Data Transparency certifications, will ensure you continue to determine how, when, and with whom your data is disclosed through our services. It also gives you the right to share, download, and delete your information as you see fit. As with all our software integration partners, any integrations Combyne offers to facilitate data sharing will continue to require explicit opt in from you.

What does this mean for us?

As previously indicated, although we are now part of Bayer’s Digital Farming organization, Combyne will continue to work as a standalone business unit, operating at arm’s length from the broader Bayer organization, with an independent brand, software, customer data and team. This also maintains our ability and flexibility to collaborate and partner with non-Bayer software platforms and farm advisory service providers alike.

The core of our fully-remote team will remain based in Ontario and Alberta, with new hires expected across both Canada and increasingly in the US.

As farmers have increasingly confirmed the value Combyne provides to their operations, we are also excited to share new offerings in the coming weeks, including a long anticipated premium subscription service.

All that’s left to say is thank you.

Those of you who have been part of the Combyne journey these past few years will have noticed the evolution of our vision and the immense transformation that our software product has gone through. Your support in shaping Combyne along with us has brought us to where we are today, and we hope will continue to shape where we go in the future. We are excited for the next chapter and look forward to continuing our journey.

I would also like to take a moment to personally recognize the broader team behind Combyne that have worked tirelessly to get us to this next chapter.

Please visit our website at welcome.combyne.ag to learn more.