Given that Israeli company CropX was making its first steps into crop protection and crop recording, the newest Dutch acquisition – Dacom Farm Intelligence – provides a perfect match in this respect.
“Two decades of collected data that will now be fed into CropX’s AI machine. Priceless. Almost 3M acres under management, over 3,000 customers,” said CropX’s experts in a recent press release.
This third acquisition of CropX in 18 months adds advanced crop protection consultancy services, 2.7 million hectares under management, thousands of customers and a European office.
“This is our third acquisition since early 2020 as we continue to execute on our vision to bring the most comprehensive farm management platform to growers around the world. Dacom was the missing piece for our farm management platform – adding an established presence in Europe – with over two decades of European crop data – to our global machine learning engines, as well as a critical component – crop protection advisory services and registration – to our product mix, ” commented Tomer Tzach, CEO of CropX.
Advanced Farm Management Analytics and Automation Tools
Current CropX and Dacom customers now have access to a full suite of advanced farm management analytics and automation tools.
With the acquisition, CropX will establish its European office in Dacom’s current headquarters in the Netherlands and double the size of its global team. Dacom’s 3,000 customers, who include both smaller growers and major market players such as Syngenta, add more than 20,000 farms in more than 40 countries to CropX’s portfolio. The deal also extends CropX’s reach to rainy regions.
Effective immediately, all Dacom employees will join CropX, bringing European on-farm and customer service expertise, as well as software and hardware talent to CropX’s rapidly growing global team.
“I am very excited to be part of the fast-growing CropX business,” said Dacom CEO Janneke Hadders. “Our farmers will benefit from the integrated solutions and insights from data analytics and a customer base from around the world. The acquisition strongly supports our internationalization strategy. Our crop protection advisory services will now leverage CropX soil sensor data and help our team solve critical challenges for the farming community in the Netherlands, the Middle East and Africa, Europe, North America and Australia and New Zealand.”
CropX provides growers with the information they need to improve agricultural sustainability – saving resources while improving crop yields. With proven technology, an extensive partner network, a first-class service model and a user-friendly decision support platform, Dacom fits seamlessly into CropX farm management solutions.
Dacom is one of the pioneers of the global AgTech sector, located in Groningen, Netherlands. In 2017 Dacom merged with Crop-R, a leading farm management software company. With the merger, Dacom transitioned to cloud-based software and added services based on mobile applications with access to online dashboards for Crop Recording (field activities registration), Disease Management, Moisture Management and other Precision Farming activities.
