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"Our company is located in the heart of an agricultural community in Israel, our activities include providing farmers training services, pest control, agricultural research farm and field service lab.

As an organization that deals with constant data collection, we are always in constant search for tools to help manage and use these data correctly. agCommander felt like 'the real thing' from the first moment.

Professional mapping interfaces, proper data management thinking and the ability to manage a large regional system has led us to choose it. Along with the ability to be several levels of system management for our customers, this is a very powerful tool we can trust.

But agCommander's most prominent feature is in the service consciousness and commitment to the success of its customers. Every request we raised had a reference and answer."

"We have had a long association with agCommander as an early adopter of the programme and its former version as PAM from as far back as yr 2000.

agCommander is valuable to all our enterprises as it is unique in the fact that it caters exceptionally for all enterprises as its fully integrated modules for, cropping, livestock mobs (plus our Individual Animal records), harvest /consumables inventories (configurable from basic to intensive), weather data with APIs connecting to many sensors/services, soil data with import/export functions, underlying mapping module, and assets management. The ability to switch data views from diary to field view is a powerful concept not often seen in other software. We have found that the Livestock module is an essential tool for maintaining animal welfare and keeping track of profitability values.

The mobile app allows all levels of staff to feed data in an uncluttered, intuitive format utilising prefilled lists, map options and to easily apply the prescriptions sent out from management. The staff can follow complex crop prescriptions, track stock and enter traceability data, review on farm rainfall, track along buried pipelines on sub-meter accurate paths to find valves for kilometers or enter geo-referenced observations on the fly amongst many other operations and reports available to them on their mobile devices at their predetermined level of data access data.

The whole platform comes well-structured from the startup but is fully configurable for managers to set-out the programme from small plots to large paddocks catering for multiple crops and varieties simultaneously in the same field if required.

I feel the ability to quickly budget different scenarios in the cropping and recently in the Livestock modules has been the real power for our operations in an environment of fluctuating enterprise profitability. Our ability to switch between enterprise mixes is strongly influenced by planning and budgeting done in agCommander and caters for reporting back over archived farms/fields or stock by choice through the infinitely configurable grid style reports that lets massive data sets be drilled down to the last parameter if required.

The reports grouping, sorting, summarising including/excluding functions means we rarely need to export data out to other platforms to manage reportable information, although this is an option. Once informed decisions are made, the scenarios are simply converted to work orders for all to accurately carry out in the real world.

Thank you agCommander for a solution for management to empower staff and partners in a complex business model to get the job done, recorded quickly and give back valuable records for all levels of engagement."

"We operate a 900ha cropping and livestock finishing business in the South Island of New Zealand. We have had a long association with agCommander as an early adopter of the programme and its former version as PAM since 2004.

To run a successful farming business, you need good financial visibility of every production unit and records to meet compliance obligations, as well as information and reports you can share with advisors and staff to build a strong team and business. You also need tools to help with future planning and an integrated mapping programme to visually support management and record keeping. agCommander achieves all of this and more for our cropping and stock finishing system.

Over the years one of the most powerful tools for me has been the gross margin reporting. I can quickly see what the best returning crops are, where the costs have been well managed and where they haven't. It is very easy to group crops and see what my average yields are over whatever time period I select.

Average yield data can then be used in agCommander's budgeting module to help with future planning and management, producing lists of consumables such as chemical, making pricing and ordering a much easier process.

Another strength of agCommander has been their back up support and commitment to develop and to grow alongside our farming business. I would also rate them 10/10 for adding feature requests

"Saratoga Holdings is the Australian holding company for the macadamia farming businesses at Hinkler Park Plantations (HPP) in Queensland, Victoria Park Plantations (VPP) in New South Wales and Barberton Valley Plantations in South Africa. It is one of the largest producers of macadamia nuts in the world having started in 1979 at VPP. The Saratoga group worldwide has approx. 5,000Ha of macadamias and produces over 15% of the Australian crop employing hundreds of staff in Australia and South Africa.

I am very happy to say good things about agCommander. We have been agCommander clients since 2005 and the majority of the business practices of our farming operations rely heavily on the software for control and oversight.

Macadamias are harvested daily for 6 months of the year, generating large numbers of records. Nuts are moved from silo to silo for drying and sorting. agCommander manages this whole process and our team rely on it through the 6 months of harvest.

We use the agCommander mobile app throughout the harvest to record the loads of nuts as they are sent off to the silos. We also use the mobile app for our extensive scouting programs which span across several months.

The agCommander reporting flexibility is excellent. Besides the very useful map reporting tools, being able to configure table columns included, their position, sort by, group by, summaries and expand/collapse options - it is tremendous."

"At ANAIA Wines in Agrelo, Mendoza, Argentina, we manage 57 hectares of vineyards, and agCommander has truly become essential to our daily operations. We can now accurately record all tasks in an organized manner, which makes it easy to monitor operational costs in real time. This level of insight has been key in optimizing our processes and improving efficiency across every sector of the vineyard.

With the support of the agCommander team, we've integrated all our data into a Power BI dashboard, enabling a clear and segmented analysis of our operations.

Additionally, we implemented the GrapeForecaster module for yield estimation, which delivered very positive results. The platform offers a wide range of reports that we now use daily, making it an indispensable part of our vineyard management."

"We operate a 45 hectare vineyard with a fertigation-system and individual spraying programs for different varieties. In the past we had only records on paper which made it difficult to keep an overview. agCommander has made the weekly planning and recording a lot easier but keeps far more detailed records than we had before. The report functions make it very easy to analyze our actions of previous seasons and implement these results in our planning.

With agCommander we are saving a lot of time during our weekly planning and the chances for human errors were significantly reduced.

We are very happy with the program, it's helping us a lot."

"With agCommander it is not until you show another Grower what it can do, that it really sinks home the breadth and width of its capabilities. Our neighbour is looking at introducing his 8th different piece of software into his business. We do the same, and more than those 8 programs, using agCommander. Even after he left, I kept remembering what agCommander can do that I forgot to mention.

All of this capability is testament to time in the game. I have used new flashy software for things and quickly run into the 'we will add it to the development list' for basic functionality. The 30+ years of ticking away shows in agCommander."

(This business is a very successful kiwifruit farming operation at the top of New Zealand's North Island which employs up to 50 staff. Chris is also a leader in the New Zealand kiwifruit industry as the grower representative for the Opotiki region for the NZKGI.)