Read how qubesense precision farming solutions help farmers save labor, water, and fertilizer costs and increase crop yield and profit
Background
- The customer is a leading producer and supplier of apples and pears in Australia. However, being one of the country's most extensive independent groves, they needed automated, comprehensive end-to-end precision farming solutions that would allow them to track their entire inventory, tasks, products, financials, and outlays all on the same platform
Challenge
- The orchard had many blocks. The fruit grown in each block appeared to have different conditions for its growth; some areas produced a better quality fruit than others
- The farm owner wished to know why there was variation between the blocks and what made some blocks more productive than others. Unfortunately, it was impossible to measure this without a comprehensive precision agriculture software for tracking field performance
- The farm's fruit pickers performed various duties of varying complexity; some took longer than others. The farm's manager found it impossible to reconcile the compensation or ensure that wages were paid appropriately due to a manual system for wages
- With their existing manual system of spreadsheets and paper forms, the farm owner faced challenges across all major farm operations
- Manual data entry for timekeeping and payroll systems was tedious and prone to errors
- Without proper agriculture software solutions, the farm owner could not focus on improving the quality of the crops, which resulted in decreased market rates and loss in income
- Communicating fieldwork was time-consuming and error-prone due to manual spreadsheets, phones and text messaging
- Because of poor record-keeping for farm expenditures, it was difficult for the farm owner to make wise investment decisions
- When crop failure occurred, it was impossible to determine the mother plant's exact location and to identify the batch that had failed
- The farm owner faced difficulties in obtaining accurate estimates of the yield at each stage of cultivation, which affected the company's cost-saving goals
- Error-prone manual data entry made it difficult to update records for a financial audit
- Without a precision farming software, it was challenging to track fertilizer and chemical usage. This resulted in a lot of paperwork for the farmer
Solution
- A data-driven approach was used to address to solve all these challenges. All criteria were evaluated for crop planning, right from the plantation's operational process to the region's climate circumstances, to formulate the solutions
- An end-to-end automation solution was developed in a modular way. The smart agriculture management software developed by qubesense automated all farm-related tasks and responsibilities, such as scheduling and monitoring, analyzing agricultural production, storage, equipment use, consumption, and wages by using real-time data
- Since qubesense already came with pre-built base modules, only a custom layer had to be added to match the customer's exact requirements and processes
Features
- Payroll App offers a clock-in/out feature that can help automate tracking of worker timings, saving hours of payroll compilation while ensuring 100 percent accuracy
- qubesense food traceability software captures harvest data at multiple touchpoints. It makes it easy to track the produce from the farm to the packing sheds
- The task management module allows for real-time visibility into task allocation and progress
- qubesense precision farming software provides a real-time overview of worker exposure, allowing for safe re-entry into work zones
- A block map report includes a color-coded chart that indicates the quality score of each bin of produce and the total number of bins picked
- The qubesense smart farming technology helps growers pick produce at the optimal time for maximum shelf life and comply with regulations
- Farm owners can see a satellite map of the crops, fruits, and vegetables cultivated on their commercial farms using qubesense precision farming solutions
- With qubesense traceability solutions, farm owners can generate a barcode for packing products in real-time, view packed products, and decide to fill orders and ship products
- Using the qubesense payroll software for farms, the customer can breakdown the actual expense incurred by workers, contractors, groups and accordingly pay the daily or weekly wages
- Cost inputs are now managed digitally, providing real-time data analytics on all forms of farm expenditures
- Mobile capture allows users to enter data and update records immediately, making them audit-ready in real-time
Benefits
- All modules, APIs, and reports were developed and deployed within six weeks
- With the help of qubesense precision farming technology the customer could save time and money by eliminating data entry and repetitive paperwork
- The qubesense agriculture software solutions allow pickers to keep track of their time and wages as they work, making it easy to match this data with the produce they harvest
- The customer can generate reports of critical farm operations and day-to-day tasks and view the progress of farming operations in real-time on mobile or tablet devices
- The smart farming technology from qubesense enables the farm owner to create and assign schedules, compile timesheet data collection, centralize employee records, view individual and group productivity trends
- qubesense farming solutions enable farmers to make strategic decisions about site-specific crop management based on an analysis of field-specific parameters, including soil moisture content, nutrient levels and drainage, enabling them to accurately predict crop yield.
- With qubesense precision farming solutions, the customer gets a 360° view of all the crop, fruit, livestock management, chemical, and fertilizer stock levels as well as field machines, tools, and assets
- qubesense food traceability software enables the customer to monitor and guide the resources on the farm to ensure optimal processes. Send real-time job dispatch notifications and receive task completion alerts
- Using qubesense precision ag solutions, the farm managers can now create, access, and keep track of the chemicals & fertilizers used in the farm and knows the consumption quantity, usage, and price by blocks
- The customer can perform quality checks on harvested products and take remedial measures using qubesense precision agriculture technology for crop farming
- Mobile capture not only makes spray records up-to-date, but it ensures they're accurate and reliable
- Users can easily generate reports that measure key operational metrics. Use of equipment, number of work hours is now generated in a few clicks thanks to qubesense on-field data capturing solution
- qubesense agribusiness software has helped farmers increase their productivity and sustainability by digitizing farm operations and streamlining processes from orchards to packing sheds
qubesense precision farming solutions automates all farm-related tasks and makes farms more efficient
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