Threat Trends in the Taranis Web App

Threat Trends in the Taranis Web App

Understanding what’s happening across your region is just as important as knowing what’s happening in your own fields. That’s why we’ve released Threat Trends, a new visualization tool now available in the Taranis Web App under the Home Tab.

With Threat Trends, growers and retail advisors can explore emerging weed and disease patterns across the country by viewing snapshots of threat activity in 7-day windows. Whether you’re identifying potential disease outbreaks or rising weed pressure, this tool helps you stay ahead by showing what’s being detected — by crop, by species, and by county. 



What It Shows
The Threat Trends tool highlights the most prevalent disease and weed threats, broken down by crop and species. It currently supports corn and soybeans.

For Corn:
  1. Diseases Detected: Tar Spot, Northern Corn Leaf Blight, Downy Mildew, Common Rust
  2. Weeds Detected: Fleabane/Horseweed, Foxtail, Giant Ragweed, Johnsongrass, Morning Glory (incl. Ivy-leaf), Pigweeds, Velvetleaf, Waterhemp
For Soybeans:
  1. Diseases Detected: Brown Spot / Leaf Spot and Downy Mildew
  2. Weeds Detected: Fleabane/Horseweed, Foxtail, Giant Ragweed, Johnsongrass, Morning Glory (incl. Ivy-leaf), Pigweeds, Velvetleaf, Waterhemp
How it Works
  1. Threat Trends aggregates insight tags at the county level, anonymizing field data while surfacing where and how widespread a threat is within a given geography. 
  2. Each circle represents a single county. The center of the circle marks the county's geographic center, and the size of the circle reflects the total number of threat tags found in that county.
  3. When multiple counties have high threat levels, circles may overlap, especially in dense regions. Use the zoom function and date toggling to help clarify threat patterns. 
  4. Selecting a date on the timeline displays a snapshot of threats detected in the 7 days prior, offering timely visibility into emerging risks. 
  5. Because the tool is not tied to any specific account, all users see the same regional view, encouraging consistent conversations and proactive planning. 
Why It Matters
Threat Trends delivers real-time situational awareness for smarter decision-making:
  1. Advisors can prioritize scouting based on nearby threat activity.
  2. Growers gain early warning of potential issues before they escalate.
  3. Retail teams can better coordinate timing for spraying, scouting, and input decisions.
With Threat Trends, Taranis is empowering advisors and growers to move from reactive to proactive. By visualizing real-time threats across regions and across multiple crops simultaneously, this tool brings a broader layer of insight into everyday decisions. It helps users act sooner, plan smarter, and protect yield potential. It's one more way we're turning imagery and insights into action, together!