We had a front-row seat to the launch of AEF’s Agricultural Interoperability Network (AgIN) at AGRITECHNICA a few weeks ago, which promises to ease the process of data sharing for farmers and dealers. 

“AgIN is a new standardized global gateway that, for the first time, connects equipment manufacturers, data hubs, Farm Management Information Systems, and service solutions to enable trusted-manufacturer independent and brand-agnostic data sharing,” according to AEF. 

Slawi Stesny, AgIN team lead, says the goal is to make the data exchange between systems easy, lean and efficient. 

“So, business to business. We expect participants in this environment have their own platforms. They integrate these interfaces once, having one API to all the others. Not having the need to maintain all of these individual APIs anymore. This reduces complexities, making it easier for the farmer to use their equipment of choice and software of choice, and not have the issues of two solutions that don’t interoperate anymore with each other.” 

The new interoperable network will become operational next year, with a staged release planned for March, and the production release in September, 2026.