QA Farmer Launches at Big Iron
Every morning starts with the same list of questions on the farm: Can I spray today? What’s the market doing? How much is left in the bins? Did the agronomist check the west quarter? Until now, those answers lived across a dozen apps, websites, and texts.
QA Farmer, launched recently at the Big Iron Farm Show, pulls the essentials into one place—weather you can act on, side-by-side elevator bids, bin inventory, and a direct line to your agronomist.
“It doesn’t do anything I couldn’t get somewhere else, but QA Farmer organizes it all under one umbrella and makes my day a lot easier,” said Matt, a North Dakota farmer. “Just like when the iPhone first came out…putting it all together in one place changed how I worked.”
“We talked with more than 50 farmers and worked closely with 15 farm families while building QA Farmer. They told us what to include and what to skip. Big buttons. No fluff. Fast Answers.” – – CEO Kris Poulson
Why it Matters Now
In agriculture, decisions stack up fast: A two-hour spray window, a dime move in the basis, or a fast-building storm can swing margins. QA Farmer is built to shrink the time between question and answer.
Field-ready weather: Hourly and daily forecasts with wind speed, direction, and simple green/red spray windows at-a-glance.
Grain market snapshots: Track multiple local elevator bids and futures side-by-side, set price alerts, and compare cash and basis changes without bouncing between apps.
Bin inventory without the notebook: Log crop, location, and volume; filter by commodity to see what’s truly on hand.
Advisor connection (coming): If your agronomist uses FarmQA, scouting and recs will pipe straight into the app, with tasks you can mark done.
“I like that QA Farmer gives me rain and hail alerts, and it saves me from clicking through five different apps to track grain markets,” said Anthony, another North Dakota farmer. “Having it all in one place is a big time-saver.”
Built By Farmers, For Farmers
CEO Kris Poulson has spent his career building ag software for big names— and grew up on a North Dakota farm. He took the FarmQA helm around 18 months ago with a simple observation: lots of agtech is designed around companies, not producers.
“We knew we needed to help farmers in a different way,” Poulson said. “We talked with more than 50 farmers and worked closely with 15 farm families while building QA Farmer. They told us what to include and what to skip. Big buttons. No fluff. Fast answers.”
FarmQA’s roots help. The Fargo-based company’s agronomy platform is used by more than 500 organizations, touching roughly 40 million actively scouted acres. QA Farmer extends that ecosystem to the grower’s pocket.
Launch Details
Price: Free 30-day trial; then $99/year or $9.99/month (no card required for trial)
Platforms: iOS & Android
Website: QAfarmer.com
QA Farmer Launches at Big Iron
What’s Inside:
Built for Decisions, Not Demos
Weather that answers “Can I spray?”
QA Farmer strips forecast bloat down to the variables that matter in a sprayer cab: hourly wind speed, wind direction, temperature, and humidity— summarized as green/red spray windows you can spot in seconds. For planning beyond the week, the longrange view projects out to 180 days.
“We circled June 20 two months ahead for significant rain and wind, and it hit the day and nearly the amounts,” CEO Kris Poulson said. “It won’t say ‘tornado,’ but the signal is there. It’s eerie how often it nails the big stuff.”
Poulson estimates long-range accuracy in the 65–70% range—not gospel, but useful signal when you’re sketching crop plans or scheduling labor.
Markets without tab-hopping
ick the local elevators you actually sell to and see cash bids (and futures alongside them) in one screen. Set price alerts so you’re nudged when targets hit—at open, mid-day, closing, or whenever a move crosses your threshold. A coming update will highlight basis changes so you don’t miss a quiet shift that widens or closes your best option.
Bins you can trust at a glance
Replace the notebook (or the back of a seed tag) with a structured, filterable bin inventory. Log commodity, location, and volume; view totals by crop; and know what’s truly unsold.
“I use QA Farmer just for our seed beans,” said Pat, a North Dakota farmer. “Our grain cart scale tells us what went in; the app tells us exactly which bin it’s in — no digging through notebooks.”
The Advisor Connection (Coming Soon)
If your agronomist uses the FarmQA agronomy platform, the next tab to land in QA Farmer will pipe scouting reports, recs, and tasks right to your phone—and let you mark them done, creating a clean spray record looped back to your advisor. FarmQA expects this to roll out before its annual customer conference in mid-November.
“Having everything in one app is a big deal when you’re busy,” said Corey, a North Dakota farmer. “It already fe
A Day in the Life with QA Farmer
5:45 a.m. Coffee and the spray window view. Morning looks green from 8–10 with winds under 10 mph from the NW.
6:10 a.m. Tap Markets — Maple River, CHS, and Arthur Companies are side-by-side. Corn is flirting with your price target alert; you bump the target a nickel and wait for a text alert.
11:40 a.m. Rain cell builds on radar by north farm; your phone buzzes with a rain alert. You shift your days field activities to the south farm.
3:30 p.m. Elevator hits your cash price alert. You move 8,000 bu from two bins—easy to split because your inventory screen shows which bins you hauled out of.
8:15 p.m. Tomorrow’s long-range forrecast shows a narrow spray window at dawn; you line up water truck and labor accordingly
Farmer-First Design Choices
- Big buttons, glove-friendly tap targets.
- Simple navigation tuned for sunlight and dust.
- No fluff: only the variables growers said they actually use.
From Idea to App: Built With Farmers at the Table
QA Farmer didn’t start in a boardroom. It started in the back of Kris Poulson’s mind years ago. Poulson grew up on a family farm near Casselton, ND, and went on to build ag software companies, including Sentera, which sold to John Deere. Despite years of working with corporate agriculture, one question nagged him: Why wasn’t anyone building something truly simple for farmers themselves?
When he stepped in as CEO of FarmQA 18 months ago, the opportunity aligned FarmQA’s existing platform already powered agronomy workflows across North America. Farmers were indirectly connected through their advisors. Poulson saw the gap—and the bridge.
“No one else was going to do it,” Poulson said. “So we did. This app is built to make farmers’ days easier, while tying back to the advisors who serve them.”
The QA Farmer team didn’t just sketch wireframes in Fargo. They hit the road.
Over 50 demos with producers, plus 15 farm families on early access, shaped what made the cut.
“This was built by farmers, for farmers. Every feature was purpose-built with their feedback,” Poulson said.
Unlike many agtech apps that launch half-baked and chase features, QA Farmer’s roadmap is lean by design. Poulson and director of marketing Camille Grade emphasize: what’s here today is the core.
“No one else was going to do it, so we did. This app is built to make farmers’ days easier, while tying back to the advisors who serve them.”
Why QA Farmer Could Shift the Landscape
“When the iPhone came out, people said, ‘I already have a phone, calculator, and MP3 player. Why do I need this?’ But putting it together in one place changed everything, Poulson said. “That’s what QA Farmer does for farming.”
The app doesn’t invent new tools. Instead, it fuses the essentials—weather, markets, bins, agronomy — into a single, farmer-friendly dashboard. In a world where minutes matter, the consolidation is the innovation.
Farmers aren’t sitting at desks. They’re juggling roles in the most unpredictable manufacturing environment on earth—outdoors. Rain, hail, or geopolitics can upend a season overnight. QA Farmer doesn’t try to control the uncontrollable. It simplifies the controllables: what’s in the bins, what’s happening in the sky, what price to sell at, and whether it’s safe to spray.
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