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Conservis vs Cropwise (Syngenta)
Both rows from the comparison table, set side by side. Nothing here is a recommendation; the facts are the vendors' own public statements, cited on each product page.
Capabilities
Conservis describes 4 of 10 capabilities (3 partial); Cropwise (Syngenta) describes 4 (4 partial). They differ on ai assistant, grain marketing, field maps & agronomy, inputs, labor & staff, weather, mobile app. Both describe equipment data.
| Capability | Conservis | Cropwise (Syngenta) |
|---|---|---|
| AI assistant | ? Unverified | ◐ Partial |
| Accounting | ◐ Partial | ◐ Partial |
| Grain marketing | ● Yes | ○ No |
| Field maps & agronomy | ◐ Partial | ● Yes |
| Inputs | ● Yes | ◐ Partial |
| Labor & staff | ● Yes | ◐ Partial |
| Weather | ? Unverified | ● Yes |
| Equipment data | ● Yes | ● Yes |
| Elevator / buyer connection | ? Unverified | ? Unverified |
| Mobile app | ◐ Partial | ● Yes |
Conservis: Per Traction's Advanced Farm Management page: grain contract management (positions, deliveries, settlements, contracts, settlement matching); crop planning and budgeting by field, crop, input and scenario with profitability view; work orders (who is doing what, where, when) accessible 'from nearly any mobile device'; operational reporting including plan-vs-actual, FSA/acreage/yield and customizable tax/regulatory reports. Financial accounting itself is positioned in Traction's core Accounting product, which Traction says it plans to merge with this suite. Equipment: 2021 coverage listed John Deere and Climate FieldView as Conservis partners; Traction's integrations page lists John Deere Operations Center and Climate FieldView. No AI, weather, imagery/agronomy modeling or named grain-buyer feeds are described on the current page.
Cropwise (Syngenta): US product list on cropwise.com: Financials, Operations, Sustainability (free), Commodity Pro, Explorer, Protector. Cropwise Financials tracks inputs, equipment, labor, water, harvest records, crop budgets, field-level profitability, and imports controller data; Syngenta states it is 'accessible only through the AgriEdge partnership'. Syngenta describes Cropwise as 'AI-powered' with Cropwise AI generative assistant announced 2024 (US availability unverified). Equipment: Syngenta/CNH release cites integrations with John Deere, Ag Leader, CNH (Case IH/New Holland) and a planned Farmobile US integration. Cropwise Operations iOS app on US App Store.
Price, data and ownership
| Conservis | Cropwise (Syngenta) | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Traction Ag Inc. (Conservis Corporation was the original company, Minneapolis MN) (Traction Ag Inc. (acquired December 2023 per Traction's company timeline). Previously owned July 2021–2023 by a TELUS Agriculture–Rabobank joint venture; NOT currently a TELUS Agriculture product.) | Syngenta Group / Syngenta Crop Protection LLC (US) (Syngenta Group (owned by Sinochem Holdings, China)) |
| Category | whole-farm management | field maps-agronomy |
| What the AI does | Unverified — AI level not assessed. | Unverified — Syngenta describes Cropwise as 'AI-powered'; what the AI does for a US farmer could not be confirmed from pages that loaded. |
| Pricing model | Contact sales | Contact sales |
| Published price | Not published | Not published |
| Your data | Governed by Traction Ag's Ag Data Use Agreement: 'Traction believes that you are the owner of Ag Data that originates from your farm, device, or equipment' and 'Traction will not sell or share your Ag Data to third parties without your consent'; aggregated anonymized benchmarking by default with opt-out. | Cropwise Financials US page states 'Your data is yours and only you can authorize sharing it with other stakeholders' and that data is not analyzed or aggregated unless authorized; Syngenta 2025 release says it 'does not share individual grower data without the owner's consent'. |
| Crops and regions | Not specified on current vendor page; 2021 acquisition coverage described 'family and institutional farms' and 'a diverse range of crops and livestock'; U.S. and Australia | Row crops globally; US products listed for Financials, Operations, Sustainability, Commodity Pro, Explorer, Protector |
| Farm size | Vendor describes the suite as for 'large, multi-entity operations with big acreage and large teams'; no acreage figure published | Not published |
| Ownership | Private, investor-backed — VC-backed private (subsidiary/product line of Traction Ag Inc., which is 'owned by farm investors'; Series A led by Cooperative Ventures, a CHS–GROWMARK JV) | Public company (subsidiary) — subsidiary of public |
| What else they sell | Farm software co. — farm-software-only company | Seed / chemical co. — part of input/seed-chem company |
| Headquarters | Traction Ag: Auburn, Indiana, USA. Conservis historically: Minneapolis, Minnesota (US) | Basel, Switzerland (US) |
| Built and supported | US-built (Minneapolis origin; now part of Indiana-based Traction Ag); US support via Traction (888-466-6080); Traction says the Conservis acquisition expanded it into Australia | Global platform (launched 2020, 30+ countries); US offering sold through Syngenta/AgriEdge specialists and retailers |
| Founded | 2009 | 2020 |
| Status | Absorbed/rebranded: conservis.ag now 302-redirects to tractionag.com/role/advanced-farm-management, where Conservis and Granular Business are marketed together as Traction's 'Advanced Farm Management' for large operations; Traction states it intends to bring this functionality into its core Traction Accounting system. The TELUS Agriculture ownership referenced in the task brief ended with the Traction acquisition. Conservis is no longer sold as a standalone brand with its own website. | Active. Cropwise AI (generative) announced 2024; US farmer access to Financials is bundled through Syngenta's AgriEdge program per Syngenta pages. |
| Confidence | partially verified | partially verified |
| Last reviewed | 2026-10-25 | 2026-10-25 |
Sources with access dates are on each product page: Conservis and Cropwise (Syngenta). Request a correction.