New analysis shows Advanced Agrilytics customers outperform USDA loss benchmarks, even in tough growing seasons
Indianapolis, IN – April 30, 2025 – Advanced Agrilytics published a new study showing that its data-driven, predictive agronomic methodology helps growers boost productivity in good years and better withstand tough seasons, reducing agronomic and financial volatility and risk.
The new article, “How Crop Resiliency Can Be Your Strongest Risk Management Tool,” highlights how growers using Advanced Agrilytics’ patented spatial analysis system are experiencing significantly lower loss cost ratios than USDA benchmarks.
“Resilience isn’t just a buzzword – it’s a measurable advantage,” said Jon Fridgen, Chief Science Officer at Advanced Agrilytics. “Our customers are seeing more stable yields, reduced input waste, and greater profitability because of how we manage risk before the season even begins.”
Fridgen’s comparative analysis shows Advanced Agrilytics-managed acres consistently maintain a flatter yield-loss trendline—even during years marked by heavy rain, drought, or other stressors. Using USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) data alongside internal metrics, the research underscores that Advanced Agrilytics growers face reduced financial and agronomic risk.
Figure 1: Increased Resilience During Adverse Conditions
Caption: This scatter plot illustrates the relationship between yield performance and crop insurance loss cost ratios—the higher the ratio, the greater the insurance payouts due to yield losses. The trendline for Advanced Agrilytics customers (represented by the green dots and the green trend line) shows a much flatter decline compared to the RMA/NASS-reported average (gray dots/trend line). This means that as weather variability or other risk factors increase, Advanced Agrilytics growers’ yields remain more stable.
Advanced Agrilytics’ TerraFraming™ platform, which generates sub-acre agronomic prescriptions informed by microenvironmental data such as slope, organic matter, soil moisture and movement, and by examining soil mechanisms that affect nutrient loss and availability. For example, the Nitrogen Loss Layer within TerraFraming predicts which areas of a field are more prone denitrification, the most common, weather-related nitrogen loss pathway. This leads to the creation of a comprehensive Nitrogen Management Plan that helps growers avoid costly overapplication of nitrogen and minimizing nutrient waste.
The company’s innovation also extends to phosphorus and potassium (P and K) strategies, leveraging a proprietary Spatial Critical Level algorithm. This enables nutrient plans that respond to soil moisture variability and field topography—factors that heavily influence nutrient uptake.
“Most growers use fixed-rate P and K applications that don’t account for year-to-year soil moisture changes,” Fridgen noted. “We help our customers adapt those rates sub-acre by sub-acre to maintain uptake efficiency regardless of the weather.”
Through its TerraFraming™ feedback loop, Advanced Agrilytics equips growers to refine their strategy with each season. As a result, previously underperforming acres are now contributing to more consistent yields and stronger bottom-line performance. In fact, customers are increasingly surpassing state-level yield distributions, demonstrating improved resilience over time.
“Every field tells a story,” added Fridgen. “Our job is to translate that story into smarter actions that reduce risk and maximize return.”
As spring planting windows narrow and input costs remain volatile, Advanced Agrilytics’ precision-driven approach is helping progressive farmers prepare not just for a good year—but for every year. The article’s full findings are now available on the company’s website, offering growers and industry professionals a closer look at why resilience may be agriculture’s most undervalued asset.
To read the complete article and see all of Fridgen’s risk loss analysis click here.
About Advanced Agrilytics
Advanced Agrilytics, a portfolio company of Paine Schwartz Partners, a global leader in sustainable food chain investing, is a leading agricultural solutions provider trusted by progressive farmers and agribusinesses worldwide. The company’s unique, patented agronomic solutions give growers sub-acre agronomic intelligence to strengthen crop resilience and maximize long-term profitability and sustainability.
Established in 2015, the company’s headquarters are in Indianapolis, Indiana. The company is committed to helping its grower partners transform their farming operations to improve yield consistency, profitability, and sustainability, and helping them optimize every facet of their farm and build a legacy for generations to come.
The company’s proprietary spatial analysis technology has been proven to produce better ROI, improve nutrient efficiency, and improve long-term yields, helping growers build a more profitable, sustainable farming operation today and for future generations of farmers. To learn more about Advanced Agrilytics, visit http://www.advancedagrilytics.com and follow us on social media.
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