Agritech startup Sentinel Ag has partnered with agricultural data platform Nave Analytics to integrate Nave’s remote, daily soil moisture and crop water use insights into Sentinel’s system, creating a combined platform aimed at supporting quicker, more informed agronomy decisions.
Through the partnership, Sentinel Ag will incorporate real time soil moisture and crop water use measurements into its nitrogen recommendations and deliver irrigation decision support tools. Integrated capabilities will be launched in February 2026, and will be demoed during Sentinel Ag’s Sentry Network Summit to be hosted on January 23, 2026, at the Scott Conference Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
The Sentinel platform will offer full-field, site specific soil moisture and crop water use insights that enhance irrigation scheduling and improve water use efficiency without hardware installation. It will also feature spatial maps, trendlines, and forecasts for field level soil water content, crop water use, water stress, and leaching risk.
Sentinel’s insights help growers understand when and how much nutrition their crops require, aiming to support timely applications that match crop needs while reducing unnecessary nutrient use.
We are excited about the numerous opportunities that Nave’s insights create, from enhancing nitrogen recommendations to enabling irrigation decision support.
Nave provides timely irrigation information by using external data sources rather than in-field sensors, aiming to deliver estimates of field conditions to support irrigation planning for users . It also brings together scattered water-use data to help monitor and report sustainability metrics across irrigated acres.
Nave generates field-wide soil moisture insights in an attempt to fill information gaps and present a more complete picture of each field. The system does not require hardware installation which can be used across large areas and different regions in a cost-effective and scalable way.
Supporting Decision Support Mechanism
According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), agricultural regions around the world are increasingly facing water-quality and water-quantity challenges driven by nitrogen fertilizer use and irrigation practices, with excess nitrogen frequently leaching into groundwater and running off into rivers.
Complementary global assessments published in Nature Communications show that growing fertilizer demand and agricultural water use are intensifying pressure on freshwater resources across major farming regions. As fertilizer costs rise and irrigation water allocations tighten, farmers and agronomists are experiencing greater constraints on input management.
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Farmers and agronomists are also facing pressure from high fertilizer costs and irrigation water allocations. Across irrigated and rainfed systems, understanding how water and nitrogen interact in the environment is important for good application decision making.
Bradley Griggs, COO of Nave Analytics, said that bringing both data streams into one system reduces unnecessary steps, saves time, and helps agronomists and growers respond more quickly to field needs. He noted that the collaboration with Sentinel Ag aims to offer a straightforward, efficient way to manage fields, use inputs more effectively, and support better day to day decision making.
Scaling Integrated Agricultural Data Intelligence
The unified intelligence platform can help growers reduce the fragmentation common in digital agriculture tools. By merging these data streams, it aims to simplify decision-making, improve input planning, and support more transparent sustainability reporting without adding extra hardware or operational complexity.
The collaboration between Sentinel Ag and Nave Analytics reflects a broader shift in agriculture toward integrating dispersed data sources into a single decision environment. By combining nitrogen insights with irrigation analytics, the partnership aims to address a practical challenge for agronomists and growers, managing inputs that are deeply interconnected yet often monitored through separate tools.
Bringing these datasets together could streamline day-to-day workflows and reduce the time spent reconciling information from multiple systems. It also has implications for sustainability reporting, as farms face increasing pressure to document water use and nutrient management more accurately. While the effectiveness will depend on data quality and user experience, the move signals an industry trend toward simplifying digital tools rather than adding new layers of complexity.
