The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science since 2018): field-level overlay on NOAA + NWS + USGS + NRCS + NASA

reference·Scope: business·Status: current
open-datadata-infrastructure
Created 2026-05-22

Claim: The Climate Corporation uses NOAA, NWS, USGS, NRCS, and NASA data as the foundation for field-level weather/soil overlay sold to growers.

Source: U.S. CIO open-government data report — https://www.cio.gov/assets/resources/sofit/02.03.sofit.open.govt.open.data.pdf

Confidence: Verified.

Corporate history: Founded as a standalone company. Acquired by Monsanto in 2013 (~$1B). Now a Bayer Crop Science subsidiary following Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto in June 2018. (Often miscited as "Bayer Climate" — the brand is The Climate Corporation.)

The pattern: Federal weather + soil + agricultural data + field-level user data + ML models = a product sold at field-level granularity. Pairs with FlightAware: FAA + 45-country ANSP feeds + 30,000+ user-hosted ADS-B receivers + Aireon — the crowdsourced moat (same pattern, aviation domain) and Zillow: 110M-home "living database" built on Census/ACS + 3,000 county assessors + USPS + MLS feeds (same pattern, real estate domain).

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