Croptracker is excited to be featuring Columbia Fruit in our Customer Spotlight series. Since 2018, Columbia Fruit has been using Croptracker’s Punch Clock and Spray modules. Discover how Columbia Fruit leverages Croptracker’s employee management and spray tools to improve efficiency, track costs and activities and support audit processes. For this blog, we spoke with Farm Manager, Garrett Dolan. Garret has been at Columbia Fruit for the last 2 seasons and took on managing employees and ensuring proper record-keeping with Columbia Farm’s existing Croptracker workflow.

In this Croptracker Customer Spotlight, we were excited to connect with Molly Bell of Bell Farms. Located in Auburn Maine, the Bell family has been farming potatoes for nearly 100 years, operating under the Bell Farms name since 1937. Currently the farm is managed by the 3rd and 4th generation of the Bell family. Molly and her husband Shane work alongside Shane’s aunts, uncles and siblings to farm 500 acres of grain corn, sweet corn and potatoes. Molly Bell is the Farm Manager and Food Safety Coordinator at Bell Farms and has been using Croptracker since the 2021 harvest season.

As the produce industry continues to evolve, the need for efficient and accurate traceability systems has become more pressing than ever. One crucial aspect of achieving this goal is labeling interoperability and proper formatting. In this week’s blog, we will talk about generating labels in Croptracker for products and pallets that support product industry traceability standards and efficient packed inventory management including adding a voice pick code. We'll explore the best practices labeling produce, for generating voice pick codes and ensuring seamless communication between different systems and stakeholders in the supply chain.

Croptracker is looking forward to returning to this year’s Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Convention (OFVC), February 19-20 at the Niagara Falls Convention Centre. As one of the largest and longest running horticulture conferences in Canada, the OFVC is always an important way to build relationships with industry experts and new clients and strengthen ties with our loyal customers.