AgNote Field splitting is a useful feature for vegetable growers. Since AgNote joined Western Growers in early 2022, it has had an opportunity to learn more about farm management software requirements for vegetable growers. One of the company’s learnings is it has discovered that vegetable growers often plant multiple crops and varieties in the same field. Recently, AgNote added a Produce Crop management area in the AgNote offering so that farmers can easily add multiple crops or varieties in one field. In addition, the Produce Crop management area has been designed to provide simple yet immensely powerful mapping. On the field map users can add notes and draw shapes before sharing the map.
Agtools
Agtools was chosen as one of the five winners in the Orange Silicon Valley Decarbonization Challenge project, which is committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to reach the goal of Net Zero Carbon by 2040. Agtools was chosen based on its technology and readiness for commercial engagement and tool developed by Clean Energy Ventures. The Agtools team believes that optimizing human decisions in the food supply chain through the sustainability suite of data widgets avoids unnecessary carbon emissions from farm to distribution centers. Recently, company officials traveled to Paris to present to its corporate partners. It also presented during the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles during the panel discussion titled Women in Technology for the Global Trade and Impact on Supply Chains. altumAI and its insurance operation, futureWork Insurance (in partnership with Tangram), is now operational with its dedicated Workers’ Compensation Agriculture program. With Western Growers Insurance Services as a key distributor, the company is now quoting and binding workers’ compensation policies with competitive rates and inclusive of altumAI’s loss-control technology. According to the company, its easy-to-use technology allows workers and supervisors to use the mobile phone as a digital PPE/safety device to get personalized ergonomic coaching, environmental (heat, air quality) safety advice and training. Managers and supervisors can use the altumAI app and web- dashboard to identify workers and teams facing higher workplace risks, coach and train, prioritize loss control and worksite interventions. The company claims that users benefit by utilizing a digital tool that enables and reinforces a strong safety culture, helps proactively reduce the severity and frequency of safety related incidents, and improves productivity and compliance. Boost Biomes’ first product is a biofungicide that prevents diseases like powdery mildew, downy mildew and botrytis. The team is closely tracking the progress of more than 50 trials in the U.S. this season. These trials are helping to confirm win-rates and product positioning for a 2023 market launch. To learn about grower trials (especially in grapes) for the coming season, please email trials@ boostbiomes.com. Boost Biomes develops high-performance microbiome products sourced from the native biodiversity of relevant natural environments. Its technology takes biologicals to the next level: ecology. The Boost platform overcomes traditional limitations of microbial and biological crop inputs.
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