The Climate Corporation Announces Global Data Connectivity Agreement with AGCO, Offering More Farmers the Ability to Connect Their Farm Equipment to the Climate FieldView™ Platform

Agreement to Help Farmers Seamlessly Integrate Field Data for Easy
Visualization and Analysis, Enabling the Delivery of Digital Ag Insights
for Enhanced On-Farm Decision-Making

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON),
announced a data connectivity agreement with AGCO (NYSE:AGCO), providing
farmers around the globe more options to connect their equipment to The
Climate Corporation’s industry-leading Climate FieldView™ digital
agriculture platform.

“The Climate FieldView platform continues to lead the industry with the
broadest equipment connectivity across many different equipment types,
makes and models so farmers can experience the value of powerful,
data-driven digital tools to get the most from every acre,” said Mike
Stern, chief executive officer for The Climate Corporation. “Through
this new agreement with AGCO, more farmers around the world will be able
to seamlessly get all their data in one place and maximize the value of
that data with the Climate FieldView platform’s advanced analytics-based
insights to make management decisions for their operations with
confidence.”

The agreement will provide farmers three ways to connect to the Climate
FieldView platform:

• Enables real-time data connectivity between the AGCO Connectivity
  Module (ACM), the company’s newest in-cab wireless technology, and
  farmers’ Climate FieldView accounts.
• Expands compatibility across all lines of AGCO equipment for The
  Climate Corporation’s Climate FieldView™ Drive device, which streams
  field data directly into the Climate FieldView platform to help
  farmers harness their data to uncover valuable insights, optimize
  yield and maximize profit.
• Continues to enable Climate FieldView data connectivity with Precision
  Planting’s 20/20 monitors.

This agreement also paves the way for cloud-to-cloud data transfer that
would give farmers the ability to easily send data, such as a seeding
prescription, from their Climate FieldView account to AGCO for execution
on AGCO equipment.

As The Climate Corporation continues to expand its data connectivity to
help more farmers access advanced agronomic insights, additional new
data layers will feed the company’s robust R&D engine, ultimately
enabling the development of valuable new features for farmers in the
Climate FieldView platform. In August 2017, the company announced
the acceleration of R&D advancements through the company’s robust
innovation pipeline, along with new product features and enhancements to
help farmers manage their field variability more precisely than ever
before.

Launched in 2015, The Climate Corporation’s Climate FieldView platform
is on more than 120 million acres with more than 100,000 users across
the United States, Canada and Brazil, and has quickly become the most
broadly connected platform in the industry. The platform is continuing
to expand into new global regions, and the company plans to bring the
Climate FieldView platform to Europe in the near term, in addition to
Argentina, South Africa and Australia over the next few years.

For more information about the Climate FieldView platform, contact your
local Climate dealer or visit www.climate.com.
To learn more about AGCO’s precision agriculture offering and partnering
model, visit www.AGCOcorp.com/Fuse.

About The Climate Corporation

The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, aims to help
all the world’s farmers sustainably increase their productivity through
the use of digital tools. The integrated Climate FieldView™ digital
agriculture platform provides farmers with a comprehensive, connected
suite of digital tools. Bringing together seamless field data
collection, advanced agronomic modeling and local weather monitoring
into simple mobile and web software solutions, the Climate FieldView
platform gives farmers a deeper understanding of their fields so they
can make more informed operating decisions to optimize yields, maximize
efficiency and reduce risk. For more information, please visit www.climate.com
or follow the company on Twitter @climatecorp.

About Monsanto Company

Monsanto is committed to bringing a broad range of solutions to help
nourish our growing world. We produce seeds for fruits, vegetables and
key crops – such as corn, soybeans, and cotton – that help farmers have
better harvests while using water and other important resources more
efficiently. We work to find sustainable solutions for soil health, help
farmers use data to improve farming practices and conserve natural
resources, and provide crop protection products to minimize damage from
pests and disease. Through programs and partnerships, we collaborate
with farmers, researchers, nonprofit organizations, universities and
others to help tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges. To learn
more about Monsanto, our commitments and our more than 20,000 dedicated
employees, please visit monsanto.com.
Follow our business on Twitter® at twitter.com/MonsantoCo.

Contacts

The Climate Corporation
Chelsea Shepherd, 314-258-0438
[email protected]