Please join the U.S. Grains Council in welcoming its newest member, IBM.

IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation with headquarters in Armonk, N.Y. IBM’s technology is shaping how food is grown, how food tastes, and how food gets to your plate. With growing demands on the world’s food supply chain, it’s crucial to maximize agriculture resources in a sustainable manner. With expertise in high performance supercomputing, computational sciences, Big Data analytics and more, IBM is uniquely able to develop the right weather forecasts, models and simulations that provide farmers and companies with the information they need to make the most informed decisions.

IBM has 12 research laboratories worldwide and, as of 2013, had held the record for most patents generated by a company for 20 consecutive years.