Founded in 2000, Lanworth started by mapping forests for land managers and timber interests. Tracking trends in woodlands required limited resources. But the focus on food crops have changed the company and it now sorts 100 gigs of information every day, adding to a database of 50 terabytes and counting. It’s also moving into world production-prediction. Lanworth’s RAY product – Real-Time Area and Yield℠ – is a wholly new approach to agricultural forecasting. Employing real-time satellite image and weather feeds, extensive ground surveys, and advanced crop growth and yield models, Lanworth has offered highly accurate early season forecasts in the U.S. and South America for the past three years.