Croptracker

Fruit and vegetable growers keep a lot of paperwork: sprays, harvests, irrigation, hours worked and the records an auditor will ask for. Croptracker is farm management software built for that routine. Developed by Dragonfly IT and available since 2006, it runs as desktop and mobile record-keeping apps, with cloud-based data that can be reached from anywhere.

Records made as work happens

Spray, employee, harvest, irrigation and other production practice records can be entered in a few clicks or taps, so reporting requirements are met while the activity is fresh. For a grower replacing a spreadsheet, the simplest entry point is a spray record app. For larger operations, the product extends to a pack house system, harvest tracking and labor tracking that follows the cost of each task.

Schedules and crews

Users can build their own work schedules or start from thousands of schedule templates, which helps avoid forgotten or duplicated jobs. Work crew features let managers assign tasks, monitor activity and message employees in real time. The company says a connected crew is a more productive one.

Traceability and food safety

One focus is traceability: the software shows where any product originated, to the specific block and the worker who handled it. Detailed traceability reports are meant to satisfy food safety requirements and to help manage risk when an incident or recall happens. With more than fifty reports available, the company says audit preparation can lose days of effort.

Who uses it

Croptracker says its customers are growers, packers, cooperatives and associations of all sizes, and that the team has worked alongside them to decide which features to build. Its stated mission is to make crop production more profitable, efficient and safe.

Support and demonstrations

A support team assists with setup, troubleshooting and customizing a package. Prospective customers can book a private demonstration. The company's blog covers topics such as cloud use in agriculture, labor shortages and a harvest quality vision tool that measures pears.