Farm Progress is a news and market data application for agricultural professionals, providing regional updates and commodity pricing on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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News
Sentiment
1.0
2 reviews
Nemesis
AgWeb News & Markets
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire the app to maintain daily awareness of local agricultural conditions and market shifts, which informs their operational decision-making.
For Professional grain merchandisers, commodity traders, and agricultural producers requiring real-time market intelligence.
What does it look like?
Key features
Automatically routes users to specific regional Farm Progress websites based on location or manual selection.
Provides access to grain and livestock market pricing data.
Push notifications for market updates and commodity data.
Natural language AI assistant for querying market data and generating reports.
How much does it cost?
The mobile app acts as a free acquisition funnel for the Barchart B2B ecosystem, while advanced analytical tools are gated behind enterprise subscriptions.
Velocity
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The app is classified as a zombie due to a complete lack of updates for over 20 months. The most recent activity was a minor Android release in August 2024, while the iOS platform has not seen an update since July 2022. There is no evidence of active development, feature shipping, or live operations support.
Who built it?
Barchart
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What do users think recently?
Recent user voice shows a frustrated sentiment. Users appreciate real-time access to local news and weather keeps agricultural professionals informed daily and fast and simple interface design allows for quick navigation of agricultural market data.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Real-time access to local news and weather keeps agricultural professionals informed daily
- Fast and simple interface design allows for quick navigation of agricultural market data
- Articles failing to load or displaying as incomplete text dumps frustrate long-term users
5 of 5 recent reviews analyzed · limited sample
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Competitive landscape for Farm Progress
How's the News market?
Farm Progress competes in the News category, but the current 1.0-star rating on iOS indicates a severe failure to maintain parity with industry peers. The lack of recent updates on Android further signals that the app is currently in a maintenance-only state, leaving the market open for more active competitors.
The rivals identified
By Farm Journal, Inc.
AgWeb serves as the primary direct competitor by offering a comprehensive news feed and market data integration that mirrors Farm Progress's core value proposition for agricultural professionals.
- Offers robust multi-language support, expanding reach beyond the English-speaking agricultural market segments.
- Maintains a significantly higher review volume, signaling stronger user trust and established market authority.
- Provides a more mature market data integration suite compared to Farm Progress's current feature set.
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Key takeaways for Farm Progress
Where is it heading?
The agricultural news market is shifting toward hyper-local utility and multimedia engagement, leaving Farm Progress exposed due to its static, text-heavy approach. Unless the team addresses the technical regressions in the latest version, the app will continue to lose its professional user base to more agile, feature-rich competitors.
- Content rendering failures in the latest version drive user frustration, which directly increases churn risk to more stable competitors.
- The lack of recent Android updates suggests the product is in maintenance mode, signaling a loss of competitive relevance.
The SWOT
- B2B distribution moat via regional agricultural partnerships
- Enterprise data integration drives high-value conversion
- Integrate hyper-local utility features like rainfall tracking
- Expand audio-news consumption features
Next best moves
Rebuild content rendering pipeline because article loading failures are the top complaint → restore primary utility.
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's current maintenance-mode state is a strategic…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Multi-language support (available in AgWeb but absent here) +2
Since the last report: The platform has transitioned to a freemium model but faces severe technical regressions in content rendering that threaten user retention.
Bottom line
Farm Progress holds a necessary position in the agricultural news space, but the current content-rendering failures erode user trust, so the PM must prioritize fixing the core news delivery to prevent further churn to AgWeb.
Unlock 3 critical frictions, 3 market threats, 1 more prioritized move and the analyst’s take.
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