Jan 2019
Coleman Ag
Innovation is key for Oregon's largest hop growing operation
"Agworld is a tremendous resource for our crop teams. The data it provides enables our crop teams to plan thoughtfully and make wiser decisions."
Liz Coleman
Microsoft Power BI
Turn your Agworld data into powerful insights
Connect your Agworld farm and field data with Power BI to unlock a suite of customisable dashboards, giving you full visibility into costs, production, profitability, and operational performance across your enterprise.
Flexible reporting across your entire farm operation
With the Power BI integration, structured agronomic, financial, and operational data from Agworld becomes the backbone of powerful, flexible dashboards. You can use Agworld’s out-of-the-box reports or build your own custom dashboards combining data across farms, fields, seasons and enterprise structure. You can use this data to create historical benchmarks, run in-depth scenario analysis and much more.
Because Agworld stores all data in a structured format, dashboards can deliver real-time insights: monitor crop costs, input usage, gross margins, yield estimates, and compare across seasons or regions.
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How do I set up my Agworld – Power BI integration?
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Follow the following steps:
- Install the “Agworld for Growers” Power BI App (available from Microsoft AppSource).
- Connect the app to your Agworld account — this gives Power BI access to your structured farm data (fields, operations, costs, crop actuals, budgets, etc.) for reporting.
- Use either the provided standard reports, or build custom dashboards tailored to your farm’s needs.
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What data from Agworld will I be able to see in Power BI?
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Power BI pulls structured data from Agworld, including (but not limited to):
- Grower, farm and field structure
- Planned and actual operations (seeding, spraying, fertilising, harvesting)
- Input usage and costs (products, rates, quantities)
- Financial / budget data associated with plans and actuals
- Performance metrics: cost-of-production, gross margin, profitability, farm-/field-level summary reports
- Historical data, enabling benchmarking across seasons, crops, fields or regions
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Why use Power BI instead of Agworld’s built-in reporting?
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Agworld’s custom reporting covers many needs, but Power BI gives you unlimited flexibility: you can combine Agworld data with other data sources (e.g. accounting, market prices, external weather or yield data), build advanced visualisations, and create dashboards for different stakeholders (owners, managers, agronomists, lenders).
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For larger farming operations, or those needing high-level management reporting, this level of flexibility and customisation can replace multiple spreadsheets and manual reconciliations.
Your benefits
Use Agworld + Power BI to turn data into decisions: fast.
Real-time visibility into farm performance
As soon as you record operations or financial data in Agworld, your Power BI dashboards update, giving you a live picture of costs, performance and profitability across your enterprise.
Customisable dashboards to suit your business
Use Agworld’s default reports, or build your own. Combine cropping, financial, inventory, and external data to answer the questions that matter for your farm.
Better financial planning and risk management
Forecast seasonal costs and product needs, run “what-if” scenarios (yield, price, input costs), and monitor performance against budgets to manage risk proactively
Share insights across your team, from staff to non-farming stakeholders
Power BI works on desktop, mobile and web, so agronomists, accountants, board members, contractors or partners can all access relevant dashboards and stay aligned.
