About Soilynx
Built from the row crop belt, not the Valley.
We built Soilynx in Iowa City because we spent five years watching crop advisors do manually what computers should have been doing for them. The technology existed. The workflow didn’t.
The Origin
An afternoon that became a company
In the spring of 2022, Amara Diallo was working as a precision ag consultant for a farm management company in central Iowa. A grower — 4,800 acres of corn and soybeans across Poweshiek County — needed a variable-rate nitrogen prescription for his spring side-dress application.
She spent the afternoon at the kitchen table with a yield map printout, a transparency overlay, and a ruler. Drawing zones by hand. Four hours to produce a rate table she’d load into a spreadsheet, convert to a shapefile, then format for the grower’s John Deere 2630.
This was the standard workflow. Every crop adviser she knew was doing it the same way. The Sentinel-2 imagery existed. The soil sensor data existed. The agronomic models to assign nitrogen rates by zone existed. What was missing was the end-to-end pipeline that assembled those pieces into a TASKDATA.XML file a farmer could load on a USB drive and drive to the field.
She spent the next year building that pipeline. Soilynx was incorporated in Iowa City in 2023.
One afternoon with a ruler. One year of pipeline work. One file format that changed the process.
Mission
Precision ag prescriptions should be automatic.
Not a weekend project for your crop advisor. Not a job for a ruler and a transparency sheet. The data exists. The agronomic models exist. The only thing missing was a system that assembled it all into a file the equipment could read.
Soilynx is that system. Built for Iowa corn and soybean operations, by someone who spent five years helping growers do variable rate the hard way.
Grower data sovereignty
Your field data does not belong to a fertilizer company. Soilynx is not affiliated with, owned by, or financially connected to any seed, chemical, or agrochemical input supplier. We do not sell or share field boundary, soil test, yield monitor, or prescription data with any input company. Full export and full deletion are available from Settings at any time.
Corn belt crops, not general agriculture
The zone-generation model was calibrated on corn and soybean production data from the Iowa/Illinois corn belt. It is not a generic image segmentation tool adapted for agriculture. Priya Sundaram’s six years writing agronomic prescriptions for an Iowa grain co-op shape the nitrogen rate logic and the yield-stability weighting that drives zone boundaries.
Works with what you already own
We do not sell display terminals, sensors, or application hardware. ISOXML is an open standard — any compliant display terminal can read what Soilynx produces. We output files the equipment you already own can read, in the format that terminal expects.
Iowa City, IA — 2023
Four people. One product. Real field data.
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