Gro Alliance
Automation & Digitization of Crop Management Life cycle for Seed Corn & Soybean
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Automation & Digitization of Crop Management Life cycle for Seed Corn & Soybean
Gro Alliance’s application had runtime bugs and system glitches. Also, it lacked customizability with limited operations, which affected productivity and data accuracy.
Gro Alliance needed an improved system that overcame one’s network, compatibility, and calculation issues, which would boost the company’s operation and decision-making efficiency.
Folio3 developed an application with solid compatibility while also addressing the employee-location-tracking, task-history, and bulk import issues faced by Gro Alliance.
Gro Alliance is a leading provider of agricultural products and services. The company has seed production facilities in seven states, and it generates around $23.7 Million in annual revenue. Gro Alliance is committed to providing its customers with the highest quality products and services and helping them achieve their agricultural goals.
Folio3 Agtech meticulously analyzed all the issues that Gro Alliance’s current system faced, including runtime bugs, limited compatibility, location tracking issues, and much more. Folio3 then followed the following steps to make the system for Gro Alliance.
To create an effective solution, we thoroughly understood the challenges faced by Gro Alliance. We meticulously analyzed the problems, prioritized them, and identified critical areas that required attention. By creating user personas, we gained insights into the pain points experienced by each persona.
Collaboratively, we developed wireframes to visualize and refine the additional features required by Gro Alliance. Through an iterative process, we obtained approvals on the wireframes before proceeding to the design phase.
Leveraging an existing product, our developers seamlessly incorporated Gro Alliance’s specific requirements into the solution, fixing all the issues the previous system had while enhancing the new one. The wireframes and designs served as blueprints for customization, ensuring the solution catered precisely to their needs.
Once the solution was synchronized and integrated with Gro Alliance’s data and requirements, it was deployed for implementation. Our team provided comprehensive training to empower Gro Alliance’s workforce, enabling them to leverage the solution effectively and maximize its benefits.
Inbred are used to create hybrids for growing different crops in the fields. Inbred Management is being done by adding inbreds in the application using some details and later on two inbreds are combined to make a hybrid under Hybrid Management that is assigned to a field.
The Hybrids, which help in growing more crops, are used in other fields too.
Thus, helping Gro Alliance improve crop yield.
Gro Alliance team is now able to create their fields, Geofence them and add notes with respect to each field in the app to track the real time performance of each field in real time.
Field management has become easier with respect to the crop type and users working on different tasks on the ground including planting, harvesting, silk & shed counting etc.
With the folio3 developed application, GroAlliance can manage the complete crop lifecycle. From creating or adding the fields, attaching hybrids, assigning fields to users/scout, and performing different activities from planting to harvesting, all can be managed from a single solution.
The solution helps Gro Alliance keep track of crop in critical times at each step of crop cycle.
With the real-time dashboard and reports, GroAlliance is able to review the status of all the activities being performed on the fields with the real-time data and estimate crop yield. In addition to that, the dashboard also shows the completed/pending tasks with respect to the users which helps admins to make decision on the basis of results.
On the other hand, the reports share a very detailed oriented view of the tasks being performed using the application and this also helps in generating the meaningful data for the admins and can further be used in analytical tools like Microsoft Power BI and Tableu
Through collaborative efforts, Gro Alliance is thriving with its new system that solves all the company’s productivity, data accuracy, and compatibility issues, resulting in a noticeable increase in number of fields handling. The client is bringing soybean operations on the system as well.
