Digital Field History Brings Tangible Benefits to Russian Agriculture
In 2025, Russian farmers began to see practical results from deploying a new agricultural production management system – the cloud-based digital platform Istoriya Polya (Field History).
Replacing a Foreign Service
The cloud service Istoriya Polya was developed by the Geomir Agro group of companies as a domestic alternative to the foreign platform Cropwise. The Russian digital solution enables agricultural enterprises to collect, analyze, and store all production data within a single system, creating a unified digital record for every farm.
At the same time, agricultural producers are primarily interested in measurable outcomes from adopting the new service. These results were discussed at the 27th Russian Agro-Industrial Exhibition Zolotaya Osen’ (Golden Autumn), where farmers from the Tambov region shared their hands-on experience with the platform. The system opens up new opportunities for production development. Istoriya Polya aggregates data from multiple sources – ranging from field sensors to satellite imagery – and consolidates them on a single platform, forming a unified information base. The platform then processes this data to support management-level decision-making.
Using the system, farms can calculate the optimal combination of crop varieties and hybrids for each individual field. The most efficient crop rotation schemes are developed through computer modeling, based on multilayer digital maps of fields and cadastral plots, as well as multi-year field histories. Importantly, all data are aligned with official cadastral records from Rosreestr.
Requirements for seeds, fertilizers, machinery, and fuel – in other words, production costs – are calculated automatically. Artificial intelligence also evaluates risks related to crop diseases and pest outbreaks.
Continuous Control of Fields and Operations
Field conditions are monitored using drones and satellite observation data. Farmers can track crop development, identify heterogeneous zones, and take corrective action quickly. At the same time, Istoriya Polya ingests data from local weather stations and factors in real-time weather conditions.
Overall control over production processes is significantly enhanced. Managers gain access to real-time monitoring of machinery movement and operation. The system automatically reports completed fieldwork, execution times, and fuel consumption.
Operational responsiveness improves substantially. Information about all critical events is delivered automatically, enabling management decisions to be made without lengthy coordination meetings.
As a result, overall profitability increases. Spending on seeds, fertilizers, crop protection products, and fuel is reduced by around 15 percent, while yields grow by approximately 5 percent.
Istoriya Polya integrates with business intelligence analytics systems, simplifying internal process analysis, and works with the 1C platform, accelerating document workflows and easing the workload of financial departments.
According to experts, accounting accuracy improves by roughly 40 percent, while all data are stored securely within Russia.
Precision Agriculture
This Russian-developed solution is systematically transforming domestic crop production and represents an important step toward the full implementation of precision agriculture. IT platforms for agrobusiness management are becoming a key driver of agricultural development in Russia.
Istoriya Polya is not the only solution in this space. Russian platforms such as Agrika and Agrosignal also provide farmers with unified digital environments for managing production processes.
Competition among developers is emerging – a dynamic that consistently benefits end users. It stimulates higher quality in Russian AgTech solutions and reduces the cost of IT adoption for farmers. These platforms are becoming efficiency-enhancing tools that are already being adopted by agricultural producers in countries of the Global South.
