Welcome to the Age of Smart Soil
Today’s Fourth Industrial Revolution, driven by robotics, AI, IoT, and advanced software, is transforming manufacturing, logistics, and services by sharply boosting efficiency, cutting costs, and reducing labor requirements. Yet agriculture has been slow to adopt these technologies, hindered by fragmented data, high hardware costs, and entrenched workflows.
Blomso, an Ohio State-backed startup, offers free soil tests paired with an AI “agronomist” to deliver field-specific insights and predictive yield forecasts.
By collecting rich soil and management data from early-adopter farmers, Blomso not only empowers growers, lenders, and traders but also builds a data moat that fuels continuous improvement and ultimately subsidizes farmer services, bringing agriculture into the era of data-driven productivity.
Blomso: Engineering Agriculture’s Intelligence Layer
Across most industries, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, driven by AI, robotics, and connected devices, has slashed costs and unlocked astonishing productivity. In manufacturing, automation has reduced errors by up to 99% and order-fulfillment costs by 25%. Global logistics are orchestrated by real-time analytics and warehouses run like algorithms, but agriculture is being left behind.
The Digital Divide in Farming
Despite being a $12 trillion industry feeding 8 billion people, agriculture remains one of the least digitized sectors globally.
Fewer than 25% of farms use any form of AI or digital decision-making tool (N-IX, 2024).
Soil, the foundation of food production, is still tested by sparse lab tests. These are often sampled once every 2.5 acres, too infrequently to capture most field variability.
AgTech investment dropped 3.6% in early 2025, even as global food insecurity and climate volatility surged (Reuters, 2025).
This results in massive inefficiencies:
40–70% of applied nitrogen never reaches crops, wasting money and polluting waterways (MDPI, 2023).
Farmers often don’t know their yield potential until after harvest, when it's too late to adjust.
Soil degradation now threatens 52% of global farmland, yet there's no scalable system to track or reverse it in real time.
What Blomso Does
Blomso helps agriculture enter the AI era by turning soil into intelligence. We use cutting-edge sensing technologies to generate fast, detailed insights about the health and potential of farmland. By combining this with climate, weather, soil chemistry, soil structure, elevation, soil microbiome, satellite, farming practices, and crop history data, we create real-time, field-level intelligence that helps optimize decisions before, during, and after each season.
Our platform makes this advanced data useful and accessible. Farmers and Agronomists receive clear, actionable recommendations through a simple web portal, no new hardware and complexity. Behind the scenes, our AI continuously learns from every sample, every outcome, and every region, getting smarter, faster, and more powerful with each field we analyze.
How Blomso’s Data Strengthens Agriculture
Smarter Fertilizer Use
We show exactly where and how much to apply, helping farmers cut costs, reduce waste, and protect the environment.
Optimized Planting
Blomso tailors seeding rates to soil conditions, improving growth where it's needed and avoiding waste in high-fertility zones.​
Early Yield Forecasts
Our AI predicts harvests months in advance, giving farmers, lenders, and traders time to plan and act wisely.
Pest & Disease Warnings
We spot early signs of risk in soil biology, helping stop problems before they spread.
Efficient Irrigation
We guide watering schedules by identifying which areas need more or less, saving water and boosting crop health.
Carbon & Soil Health Tracking
Farmers can earn from building healthy soil, while others meet sustainability goals with verified data.
Farm Simulations
Our “digital twins” of each field let farmers test decisions virtually before applying them in the real world.
Benefiting the Entire Agricultural Ecosystem
Blomso strengthens every stakeholder in agriculture, from the field to the finance desk:
Farmers get soil testing, better margins, reduced input costs, and higher resilience to climate and pest shocks.
Agronomists enhance their field prescriptions using AI-driven analysis and better soil chemistry data.
Input companies can better time and target product delivery, reducing oversupply and boosting ROI.
Governments and NGOs receive scalable tools to track soil health and reward sustainable practices with real data.
A New Model for the Future of Farming
Blomso’s vision isn’t just to sell software. It’s to rebuild the foundation of agriculture, starting with the soil. By collecting comprehensive and dense soil data we remove one of the biggest barriers to advanced modeling.
The result is a self-reinforcing system:
More data
Smarter AI
Better outcomes
Broader adoption
Healthier soils and stronger communities
Through this cycle, Blomso helps combat soil degradation, improve farm profitability, and build a connected, climate-smart agriculture system. Our goal is to make sustainable farming not just possible but profitable, predictive, and powered by AI.
Join the Revolution
Blomso is partnering with early adopters farmers, agronomists, cooperatives, lenders, insurers, and governments who see the future and want to shape it. If you’re ready to be part of the transformation, let’s talk.
Contact Us to join a pilot, collaborate, or fund the future of intelligent agriculture.