Zema Global and SatYield bring satellite-based crop intelligence to agricultural commodity markets
Zema Global and SatYield announced a partnership Oct. 14 that will give agricultural commodity market participants access to SatYield’s in-season crop yield and production analytics through the Zema Global Decisioning Infrastructure.
Denver-based Zema Global provides data and analytics solutions for companies engaged in the energy, commodities and financial sectors. Sacramento, California-based SatYield provides satellite-driven crop intelligence and forecasting.
Through the partnership, Zema Global customers will be able to access SatYield data and analytical products covering the U.S. and Brazil, including yield and production forecasts, planted and harvested area estimates, condition indicators, growth stages and phenology, harvest progress, weather impact indicators, historical time series and backtesting data, as well as supporting metadata and documentation.
Agricultural commodity markets can move significantly between traditional reporting points as weather, crop conditions and production expectations evolve. By adding SatYield’s in-season crop intelligence to the Zema Global Decisioning Infrastructure, market participants can assess those developments alongside established market, weather and supply-and-demand data. For existing Zema customers, SatYield adds an independent view of crop development, integrated into the decision-ready data environment they already use.
SatYield’s analytics combine satellite observations with biophysical crop modeling to provide in-season intelligence on crop development and production. By providing additional information about changes in crop conditions and potential yields during the growing season, the data can help market participants assess emerging supply dynamics as conditions develop.
“Commodity markets do not need more data. They need earlier, independent signals that help them understand how physical supply is changing before it becomes market consensus,” said Gabby Nizri, co-founder and CEO of SatYield. “SatYield brings the physical crop signal, while Zema makes it decision-ready by synchronizing it with the market, weather, and fundamental data customers already use.”
By bringing SatYield’s data into Zema Global’s Decisioning Infrastructure, customers can connect SatYield’s independent physical crop intelligence with the market and fundamental datasets already used in their decision-making models, including reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, such as the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, as well as weather, exchange data and broader supply-and-demand intelligence.
The companies said the partnership is particularly relevant for hedge funds and agricultural commodity traders active in corn and soybean markets, as well as energy market participants seeking greater visibility into yields and production dynamics relevant to biofuels.
SatYield’s data can support production forecasting, regional crop assessments, market analysis, trading strategies and risk management, including analysis of how weather affects productivity and incorporation of in-season intelligence into broader supply-and-demand analysis.
“SatYield brings an innovative source of crop intelligence to the market,” said Eric Steimel, chief data officer at Zema Global. “Through the Zema Global Decisioning Infrastructure, customers can bring that signal into a decision-ready data foundation and make faster, more informed decisions as markets become more complex.”
According to the company, SatYield has demonstrated the ability to identify changes in acreage, yield and production during the growing season, providing an independent, forward-looking indicator of changing crop conditions before final official estimates are released. For more information, visit zema.global or satyield.com.
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