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💧 California growers are rewriting the water playbook.

Between shifting allocations, SGMA restrictions, and rising pumping costs, water has become the most valuable and constrained input in agriculture. Deficit irrigation is no longer a “what if” strategy. It is a necessity.

In our latest blog, we explore:
✔ How deficit irrigation impacts almonds, pistachios, citrus, and wine grapes
✔ The real costs of probes vs. imagery and how the two work best together
✔ A practical 7-step playbook to put deficit irrigation into action
✔ The sustainability and compliance dividend that forward-thinking growers are already seeing

Read the full blog by Anubhav Sharma to see how imagery is helping California growers turn water scarcity into a strategic advantage:

Deficit Irrigation: Finding the Balance Between Survival and ROI Learn how California growers are using deficit irrigation strategies and imagery technology to navigate water cuts, protect crop quality, and improve ROI in a volatile climate.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised $13 million in funding to accelerate our mission.

This investment is a major milestone for our team and the customers we serve from growers to insurers to capital managers, helping them make smarter, faster, and more sustainable decisions using high-resolution data and real-time insights.

🌱 Thank you to our customers, partners, and investors for believing in our mission and what we’re building!

📖 Read more here: https://hubs.la/Q03RGJK10

Ceres Raises $13 million to Accelerate AI for Agricultural Intelligence ('AI for AI'), appoints first ever AI Board Member /PRNewswire/ -- Ceres AI, the data and artificial intelligence company transforming how the world understands agricultural and environmental risk, today...

This week, the Ceres team gathered in San Francisco for our 2025 Global Offsite. We came together to build stronger connections, exchange ideas, and lay the groundwork for future growth. From strategy sessions to evening socials, it was a week of learning, sharing, and growing together. We're all feeling grateful for the energy, ideas, and people that make Ceres such a special place to be!

Cheers to the start of the 2025/2026 season for Chile! 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

Last week, Bram had the chance to visit one of our customers, Century Orchards, right in the middle of their almond bloom. The views were incredible—and a great reminder of the beauty behind the data we work with every day.

In California's fertile Central Valley, a 7,000-acre operation faced a critical challenge: managing irrigation in tomatoes with only a 120-day growing season.

The stakes:
- Semi-heavy clay loam soil
- High water table concerns
- Salinity management crucial
- Buried drip tape issues nearly impossible to spot

The game-changer? Real-time field monitoring that:
- Catches irrigation issues before visible damage
- Enables precise pressure management
- Ensures optimal soil moisture
- Maintains crop uniformity

For processing tomatoes, there's no room for error. Every day of that 120-day season counts.

What monitoring tools are you using to protect your high-value crops?

🚨 Just announced: US Agriculture, LLC, one of the nation’s largest institutional farmland investors, has partnered with CeresAI to modernize how farmland is monitored, managed, and optimized.

Together, we’re tackling one of the most persistent challenges in the agriculture industry: how to gain consistent, objective, and scalable insights across thousands of acres, regions, and crops without being tied to the field.

💡 With CeresAI’s platform, US Ag now has:
✅ 100% remote visibility into every managed acre
🚩 AI-powered monitoring that flags early risks and opportunities
📈 Actionable insights for farm managers, growers, and investors
🌱 A proactive lens on asset performance, crop health, and long-term land value

This partnership brings AI-powered visibility to every acre being managed, helping stakeholders make faster, smarter decisions and setting a new standard for modern ag intelligence.

We’re proud to be building the future of agriculture alongside visionary leaders like Ben Crockett and the US Ag team.

📖 Read the full release → https://hubs.ly/Q03zll-G0

US Agriculture, LLC Utilizes CeresAI to Transform Farmland Monitoring /PRNewswire/ -- US Agriculture, LLC, a respected farmland investment firm and registered advisor, has chosen to work with CeresAI, a pioneer in AI-powered...

We’re proud to be recognized in the 2025 THRIVE Top 50 AgTech Report by SVG Ventures | THRIVE, alongside some of the most innovative companies driving the future of agriculture. This year’s report highlights growth stage leaders scaling real world solutions across the ag value chain, from climate resilience to automation and data powered decision support.

A big thank you to SVG Ventures THRIVE for the recognition and for championing technology that helps agriculture work smarter and more sustainably. We’re honored to be part of this global community pushing the boundaries of what is possible in AgTech.

Real results from our field studies:
• 8-12% increase in yield
• Reduced water usage
• Lower fertilizer needs
• Decreased pesticide application

But the biggest win? 200+ irrigation issues detected and resolved before affecting yield.

This isn't future tech—it's happening now, helping real farmers protect real crops.

Ready to see what AI can do for your operation?

🚀 Big news!
We're excited to announce our partnership with Bayer Climate FieldView, a collaboration designed to reshape agricultural finance and insurance.
Together, we’re solving one of agriculture’s most persistent challenges, the disconnect between on-farm data and financial decision-making. By integrating Ceres AI’s advanced data analytics with FieldView’s digital platform, we’re delivering timely, field-level intelligence that can:
✔️Enhance underwriting precision
✔️Support hybrid parametric insurance models
✔️Enable smarter farmland investments
✔️ Help farmers access capital and mitigate risk

🌱 What does this mean for farm operations and agri stakeholders?
Stakeholders now gain seamless access to AI-powered risk insights, with field-level visibility into crop performance, financial exposure, and portfolio risk, all driven by timely agronomic data.
This collaboration isn’t just about data. It’s about making sure every stakeholder in ag, from insurers to investors to farmers, can make confident, data-backed decisions.

📖 Get the full story on how this partnership is unlocking smarter, faster, and more resilient data-driven decision making across the agri value chain.
https://hubs.la/Q03mmfJs0

Ceres AI and Bayer Climate FieldView Partner to Empower Farm Operations and Financial Stakeholders with AI-Driven Insights Ceres AI and Bayer Climate FieldView announce a transformative partnership to unify farm operations data with financial insights—empowering farmers, insurers, and investors with AI-driven risk intelligence for smarter, more sustainable agriculture.

🌾 Agri-finance is facing a reckoning. Are you ready? 🌾

For too long, yield risk has been the elephant in the room — under-modeled, underpriced, and underestimated.

But in an era of rising climate volatility, this blind spot is becoming a breaking point.

At Ceres, we believe risk isn’t just something to manage. It’s something to understand, model, and ultimately outsmart. Our latest blog explores why yield risk needs to move from the back seat to the driver’s seat in agri-finance strategy, and what that shift unlocks for lenders, insurers, and agtech innovators alike.

🚨 Want to future-proof your portfolio?
🔍 Curious how next-gen data is rewriting the rules of agricultural lending?

Read the full post: https://hubs.la/Q03m3Xyl0

👉 Follow us for more insights on agri-risk, climate-smart finance, and the future of decision intelligence in agriculture.

From Blind Spots to Breakthroughs: Why Yield Risk Deserves a Front Seat in Agri-Finance Strategy Discover why yield risk is the agri-finance blind spot you can't ignore—and how data-driven strategies can turn uncertainty into competitive advantage.