InnerPlant Delivers Farmers the Most Comprehensive Reporting of Crop Disease Data in History

InnerPlant, the company that converts invisible biological reactions inside crops into visible data, today announced it provided the most comprehensive gathering and diagnosis of disease data in farming history during the 2026 growing season. The CropVoice™ platform more than doubled its crop-disease field tests to the highest volume ever recorded, monitoring over 60 test plots and diagnosing 19 disease infections in real time. This knowledge helped 200 farmers make more cost-effective, strategic decisions about when and where to apply fungicide across more than 140,000 acres of soybeans in 2026, and 93% have signed up for early enrollment in the 2027 growing season.

InnerPlant also announced the appointment of Doug Sauder, VP of Product Management and User Experience at John Deere, to its Board of Directors. The addition adds strategy and direction from a key InnerPlant partner following the commercial launch and a year of rapid scaling of CropVoice™, the world’s first real-time crop disease detection network, and industry recognition across sustainability, innovation and leadership.

“John Deere invested in InnerPlant because we saw a powerful opportunity to help farmers understand what is happening in their crops earlier and improve disease management,” said Sauder. “Together, InnerPlant’s living-sensor technology and John Deere’s digital tools and precision equipment can help farmers turn those insights into better decisions and timely action—protecting yield and using inputs more efficiently. I’m excited to represent John Deere on InnerPlant’s board and help deepen the collaboration between our two companies.”

Sauder joins InnerPlant’s board following a defining year for the company:

• In 2026, InnerPlant’s CropVoice platform issued 19 confirmed alerts in response to diseases, including Cercospora leaf blight and frogeye leaf spot, across commercial soybean fields in Iowa and Nebraska. Each alert was triggered by InnerSoy™ plants detecting fungal infection through their immune response and validated by InnerPlant’s in-field agronomists through tissue sampling before notifications reached growers.
  
  
• That same network doubled the number of molecular assays, the lab tests that identify the exact pathogen in a plant tissue sample, between 2025 and 2026 to reach the highest volume ever recorded, while processing over 137,000 plant images across the season.
  
  
• These milestones come on the heels of the world’s first real-time wild detection of a fungal infection in a commercial soybean field in 2025 and the launch of CropVoice commercially across 50,000 acres in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota, key soybean-growing regions in the U.S.

The season’s disease monitoring results were matched by the company’s commercial growth:

• CropVoice enrollment increased 3.7X, with 93% of 2026 customers enrolling early for the 2027 season. The company projects more than 1,000 customers for 2027.
  
  
• The number of retail stores selling CropVoice expanded more than 30X between 2025 and 2026, with more than 300 stores expected for 2027.
  
  
• The company recently extended its award-winning platform further with the launch of CropVoice Whole Farm, bringing real-time biological disease detection to corn growers for the first time.
  
  

“We’ve moved from demonstrating what’s possible to delivering real value to farmers, which will make a real impact in the farming industry at a time when farmers are facing a host of challenges. This season brought us significant commercial success, and as we head into next season, we will focus on scaling CropVoice Whole Farm, expanding our commercial footprint, and growing the biological data network that powers our platform,” said Shely Aronov, CEO and co-founder of InnerPlant. “Every field and every season gives us a deeper understanding of crop health that helps farmers detect problems earlier, make better decisions, and ultimately grow more resilient operations.”

That commercial progress has earned significant recognition. InnerPlant recently won the 2026 BIG Sustainability Award for Sustainability Product of the Year, with judges citing CropVoice as “a genuinely original approach” to reducing unnecessary fungicide applications while protecting yields. The company was also named a 2026 Sacramento Business Journal Inno Awards honoree, recognized among 11 organizations shaping the Sacramento region’s innovation landscape.

In 2026, the company has so far been publicly named as a Fast Company World Changing Ideas honoree, a BIG Innovation Awards Top 10 Innovator in the Small Business category, a winner of the 2026 Excellence in Customer Service BIG Award and the 2026 Startup Disruptor Environment+Energy Leader Award. CEO and co-founder Shely Aronov was also named to Inc.’s Female Founders 500 list for the second consecutive year between 2025 and 2026.

Growers and ag retailers looking to bring CropVoice to their fields in 2027 can reach the InnerPlant team at www.innerplant.com/contact/.

About InnerPlant
InnerPlant converts invisible biological reactions inside crops to visible data. The Company’s technology enables the earliest detection of pathogens and other stresses in key crops, making farming more efficient, sustainable, and resilient. By tapping into plants’ immune systems, InnerPlant engineers crops that emit optical signals detectable from as far away as space when under attack by pathogens, pests, or other stressors. InnerPlant’s first commercial product, CropVoice, was named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024. The company is backed by
leading industry and venture partners, including John Deere, Systemiq Capital, and an alliance of North American farmers via Coutts Agro. For more information, visit innerplant.com.

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