Hops

With Fieldin, hop growers gain the visibility necessary to mitigate risks and impact outcomes.

Specialized in helping optimize the entire process to turn hop buds into pellets.

Track every mechanized and operator activity with advanced reporting viewable on mobile devices.

Create reports that demonstrate that work was performed to a specific standard.

Keep team members from all areas on the same page as they can track harvest progress in each block.

Ensure the processing facility stays at maximum capacity by tracking vehicle speed and throttling pace as needed.

Minimize having to pay overtime by keeping crew shifts under defined thresholds.

Optimize for quality at every step

With challenges associated with labor management and shortages at an all time high, running a lean and efficient operation to better manage the rising cost of labor is critical. It starts with optimizing resources and costs by making sure your operation becomes a finely-tuned machine; Fieldin can help reduce variability across your equipment, operators, and regions; while at the same time raising performance benchmarks.

With access to more data and actionable insights, our customers can update tasks to successfully improve every aspect of growing their crops. The outcome results in better utilized resources, improved efficiency, and lowered costs.

Optimize labor-intensive activities and costs

Manage your crop quality

Enforce your safety standards and ESG initiatives

Growing hops requires labor-intensive resources and having the ability to monitor and control their associated costs is key to ensuring an optimal return:

Get a realistic view of your total costs by combining cost per acre, acres per hour, and hourly costs.
Track the downtime and associated cost when machines are idle such as a broken sprayer.
Identify improvement opportunities including wasted time at refill stations.
Benchmark your team against past performance and industry standards to better hold them accountable.
Plan and organize all farming activities to direct resources where they are needed.

Get ahead of your farming challenges by turning data into action.

Track pest pressures: make it easier to stay on top of changing conditions and keep everyone on the same page using reports that provide visibility on potential issues for each block. Use the Fieldin scouting application to create customized digitized reports.

Help comply with insurance requirements by monitoring all vehicle speeds and holding your crew accountable for following safety rules.

Reduce the impact of farming activities such as CO2 emissions and improve sustainable business and environmental practices.

Get value from data starting day one.

Our customers see value the very first day we install a smart sensor on any of their equipment. Through digitizing and reporting what machines and crews are doing, you can uncover immediate insights that improve business performance.

In most cases, our customers are fully operational in 45 days and live in 40 days. The data collected and analyzed builds quickly with significant benchmarks and actionable insights within 2-3 weeks from go live.

The industry’s leading grower success

Our technology is built by growers for growers to tackle the many challenges faced when growing hops or other high value crops. A key element to ensuring you get the most value from Fieldin comes from our grower success team.

The Fieldin Grower Success Team:

Real people who live in your community.
A wealth of knowledge for your supervisors and managers by providing expertise and invaluable insights.
Specialists familiar with the hop industry.
Pays attention to details and embeds into your growing operation for quick response.
Available any time and quickly when you need them.
Ready to help you take advantage of the latest trends and best practices.

Proven 5 step process to

Smart Farming and Autonomy

When you partner with Fieldin, you get to accelerate your journey to autonomy. Our 5 step process allows you to move at your own pace while never losing sight of the end goal.

Step 1: Digitize your operation

We start by installing smart sensors on your existing machines regardless of manufacturer. You get unparalleled visibility on every mechanical activity, data that previously was unavailable—no more guesswork or dependency on human documentation.

Step 2: Get data-driven insights

We combine your operational information with our centralized repository of data including industry and manufacturer benchmarks. Our cloud platform and advanced dashboards help you identify inefficiencies and further optimize your practices. This process gets better and better with every piece of recorded data.

Making the lives of everyone on the farm better!

This is at the heart of everything we do — it is our calling and our unifying philosophy which is behind every decision we make.

The way your operation runs today would be nearly unrecognizable to farmers working 50 years ago. We’re here to help make the next 50 years just as transformational.

Find out more about Smart Farming Innovation and how Fieldin can get you on a journey that incorporates Automation and Autonomy as well as ESG and Sustainability.

Smart Farming Innovation Is Here

Get visibility across activities that impact hop grower success.

Address core activities performed every day across a hop growing operation using Fieldin. The platform provides a new level of standardization by integrating and connecting all your data. The more you use Fieldin to track and gain insights, the more you impact your business performance and outcomes.

Take actions based on irrefutable data which eliminate the guesswork and human errors. Fieldin is a must if you have ever asked yourself any of the following questions.

Cultural Practices: Spraying, Mowing, Hedging, and more

Scouting

Harvesting

ATV/UTV & Truck Tracking

Does the current weather pattern demand an update to irrigation instructions?
How long did yesterday’s weeding and mowing shift last?
Does the recent scouting report indicate the need to update spraying instructions?
Is my crew performing better than past performance or industry benchmarks?
Do we have the capacity to cover more acres per hour?

Which blocks, rows, and plants were surveyed?
When did the scout or fieldman last deliver a report?
Were new pest-related issues identified which need addressing?

How can I get better visibility on how my crew is performing across all my fields?
Is the harvesting operation on track?
Should I speed up or down vehicles going to the processing facility?
Can my crew cover more vines per shift?
Is my crew performing better than benchmarks and delivering optimal outcomes?

Can I track if my crew is following speed limits and other safety standards?
Can all my vehicles be tracked in one place?
Can I increase my chances of finding and recovering stolen machines?

Hops

With Fieldin, hop growers gain the visibility necessary to mitigate risks and impact outcomes.

"Fieldin gives my team the real-time data we need to manage multiple operations and locations... The data and support Fieldin provides has exceeded my expectations."

Farming Operations Manager at Del Mar Farms

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