The agriculture affiliate program that pays 20% each month

Who to approach first as an agriculture affiliate

The best first referrals are people who already manage several fields and make regular decisions about water and fertilizer. Commercial growers of irrigated or high-value crops are a natural start: orchards, almonds, blueberries, cotton, sugarcane, vegetables. A grower with ten blocks gets more out of a field report than someone with one small plot,.

Where referrals tend to come from

• Growers you already advise or sell to, especially those running several fields with one manager.
• Independent agronomists and crop consultants, who can watch all their clients' fields from one account and refer each client separately.
• Input dealers and irrigation suppliers, whose customers ask what a field needs before they buy.
• Farm co-ops and grower associations, which can share one code with all their members.
• Agricultural creators, trainers and extension educators with an audience of working farmers.

This is why we describe the agriculture affiliate program as a referral program for agronomists and consultants first. Your clients already trust your judgment about their fields, so a tool you recommend and check alongside them is an easy step for them to take.

Introducing Farmonaut with one field

The easiest way to introduce Farmonaut is with one field the grower knows well, ideally one with a patch that always does worse. Sit with them, or share a screen, and add the field to the web app by searching its address, drawing the boundary or uploading a KML, KMZ or shapefile. Once the field report comes through, go through it together.

The report covers crop health on a five-level scale, the crop's water need in millimeters per day for the next seven days with the best time to irrigate, soil acidity, salinity and organic matter, an expected yield and harvest date, pest, disease and weed risk with a probability and an organic and a chemical control option, and fertilizer doses for five nutrients, including "apply nothing" where a field doesn't need any. Ask the grower whether the weak patch on the crop health map matches what they see on the ground. It is usually the point where the report starts to make sense to them.

Content ideas and channels for a farming affiliate program

If you publish for farmers, the content that works best is specific and seasonal. There are already plenty of generic "best farm apps" posts, so a walkthrough of one real field report will stand out more.

• A short video going through a field report on a crop your audience grows, explaining what each panel means.
• A before-irrigation post showing the seven-day water forecast next to what the grower actually did.
• A newsletter item at the start of the season on mapping fields before planting.
• A comparison of satellite data with walking the field, being fair about what each one catches.
• A case study you share with permission, or one of ours from the Farmonaut case studies.

Using your promo code and share link

Use the share link where people can click, such as posts, emails, messaging apps and video descriptions, because it opens the plans with the discount already shown. Use the promo code where they can't, such as a podcast, a talk or a printed handout. Keep the code short and easy to say. Put your disclosure right next to either one. In the US, the FTC expects you to clearly disclose that you earn a commission, and other countries have similar advertising rules.

What referred farms get

Farms that subscribe with your code or link get 10% off their plan, and the full product on the plan they choose. That includes the web app at sat.farmonaut.com and the Android and iOS apps, 16 satellite views per field (NDVI, NDRE, EVI, NDWI, NDMI, evapotranspiration, soil organic carbon, radar soil moisture and others), the ability to compare dates and play back a season, and the six-part field report described above. We use both optical and radar satellites, so cloud cover doesn't leave long gaps. Farms don't need to buy sensors or drones.

Agtech platforms that want the readings inside their own product can use the agriculture data API, which returns all 16 views and the field report as JSON. Current plans are on the pricing page, and the full feature list is on our satellite crop monitoring page.

How the 20% recurring commission builds month to month

In the agriculture affiliate program, your commission is 20% of each payment a referred farm makes, for as long as it stays subscribed. Because it repeats, what matters most over a year is how many referrals are still subscribed, more than how many signed up in any one month. The table below is a made-up example using the same round $100 per month figure as above. It isn't a real price or a forecast.

The point of the example is the shape: commission keeps arriving from earlier referrals while you add new ones, and it drops when someone cancels. Your dashboard shows the real version, month by month, with code use and trial subscriptions that turned into paid ones.

Payouts, taxes and payment details

Payouts from the agriculture affiliate program go out on the 5th of each month to the default method you've chosen in the dashboard. For a bank transfer, you'll need your IBAN, SWIFT code and the other account details the form asks for. For PayPal, you'll need the account you want to be paid into. Payment details are stored encrypted, and each payout appears in your transaction history with its date, amount and destination. You can export that history as a CSV or Excel file, which is handy at tax time.

You're responsible for your own taxes on affiliate income, wherever you live. We don't give tax advice, so if you're unsure whether commission counts as business income where you are, or what records to keep, ask an accountant. Keeping the monthly exports together makes that conversation easier.

Mistakes that cost ag affiliates referrals

• Promising results. Don't tell a grower they'll save a set percentage of water or fertilizer. Share customer stories as what those customers reported on their own farms.
• Leaving out the disclosure. It's expected, and people trust you more when you're upfront.
• Posting a code into big groups with no explanation. One walkthrough of a real field does more.
• Recommending it for very small plots. Our crop views are built from satellite pixels about 10 meters across, so a garden-sized plot covers only a handful of them.
• Forgetting the checkout step. If a farm doesn't use your code or link, the subscription can't be credited to you.
• Disappearing after the sign-up. The first few reports are when growers have the most questions, so stay available while they learn to read them.

For a wider look at earning from farming referrals, including other kinds of programs, read our guide to farming affiliate programs.