Cargill and Agriness, the technology leader in Latin America swine production, announced a strategic partnership that will foster industry-wide transformation and bring emerging digital technologies to customers around the world to improve animal production and farm profitability. Terms of Cargill's minority equity investment were not disclosed.
Agriness, the market leader in Latin American swine technology, currently manages more than 2 million sows through its S2 farm management software, continuous improvement methodology, training/mentoring programs and industry benchmarking. This month, the company will introduce Agriness 365, a scalable, cloud-based digital farm production management platform that will provide real-time data and insights through a series of business applications, environmental sensors, voice recognition, advanced analytics and a mobile-based application.