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Jeff Chemeres
Croptracker Inc.
jeff@croptracker.com
1-800-903-1492 ext. 222
(416) 908-8672
Nov. 4, 2024

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Croptracker, a leading provider of farm management software, proudly announces its honorable mention in the 2024 Ontario Excellence in Agriculture Awards. The recognition highlights Croptracker’s innovative contributions to Ontario’s agricultural community, specifically in improving farm productivity, transparency, and sustainability. The awards were presented this past weekend by Ontario’s Minister of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness, Rob Flack at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto.

Image of CFO Jeff Chemeres receiving Excellence in Agriculture Award

Croptracker’s digital tools empower farmers with real-time insights and streamlined processes, enabling them to track and analyze everything from crop growth to food safety practices. This honor underscores Croptracker's long-term commitment to enhancing the industry with data-driven solutions that simplify and optimize farm management.

“We are thrilled to be recognized by the Ontario Excellence in Agriculture Awards,” said Croptracker Founder and CEO, Matt Deir. “Our team is dedicated to supporting Ontario’s agricultural producers, helping them make informed decisions to drive profitability and sustainability.”

The Ontario Excellence in Agriculture Awards celebrates outstanding achievements in advancing the province’s agricultural sector. This acknowledgment reaffirms Croptracker’s role in supporting farmers and their dedication to a more resilient agricultural future.


Croptracker develops agtech solutions for industry leaders. Located in Eastern Ontario, Canada, our mission is to make crop production safer, more efficient, and more profitable. Designed in partnership with fresh market producers and distributors, every tool we create is based on direct industry feedback. Croptracker’s award-winning farm software optimizes recordkeeping, labor tracking, production and cost management. Our integrative Harvest Quality Vision technology offers instant empirical analysis of crop samples exactly when you need it. Optimize your harvest season with Croptracker’s customizable solutions. Visit Croptracker.com to learn more about our products and contact us for app based solutions.

Jeff Chemeres
Croptracker Inc.
jeff@croptracker.com
1-800-903-1492 ext. 222
(416) 908-8672
Dec. 6, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Croptracker, an industry leading in farm management software, is pleased to announce it’s newest product, Crop Load Vision (CLV), has been named a finalist in the highly esteemed Fruit Logistica Innovation Award. This recognition hightlight’s not only Croptracker’s commitment to excellence in farm software development, but to the innovation of the Crop Load Vision product.

Crop Load Vision is a mobile app for counting pre harvested fruit. Using only a mobile iOS device, CLV captures fruit count in real time to assist growers in faster and more accurate crop load assessments. It requires no setup or internet connection and can be used at any time in the season to count fruit and fruitlets. Real time results and on screen feedback eliminate double counting and allows for on the ground, informed decision making.

The Fruit Logistica Innovation Award is a prestigious honor bestowed upon companies that demonstrate outstanding achievements in the development of innovative products, services, or processes within the fresh produce and horticulture industry. Crop Load Vision has been selected as a finalist based on its groundbreaking contributions to crop load projections and crop management decision making support.

"We are thrilled to be recognized as a finalist for the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award," said Matt Deir, CEO and founder at Croptracker. "This achievement is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our team in pushing the boundaries of innovation within the ai and computer vision technologies and farm management support. We are proud to be among the select group of companies acknowledged for their commitment to advancing the industry."

The Croptracker team will present Crop Load Vision at Fruit Logistica in Berlin on February 7-9, 2024. The Fruit Logistica Innovation award will be judged by a panel of industry experts and trade show visitors and voting will close February 8th. The winner of the award will be announced during a ceremony on February 9th, celebrating the most impactful and forward-thinking contributions to the fresh produce and horticulture sector.

Example of how CLV looks on the app


Croptracker develops agtech solutions for industry leaders. Located in Eastern Ontario, Canada, our mission is to make crop production safer, more efficient, and more profitable. Designed in partnership with fresh market producers and distributors, every tool we create is based on direct industry feedback. Croptracker’s award-winning farm software optimizes recordkeeping, labor tracking, production and cost management. Our integrative Harvest Quality Vision technology offers instant empirical analysis of crop samples exactly when you need it. Optimize your harvest season with Croptracker’s customizable solutions. Visit Croptracker.com to learn more about our products and contact us for app based solutions.

Jeff Chemeres
Croptracker Inc.
jeff@croptracker.com
(613) 767-9961 Ex.200

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

An artificial intelligence approach to the apple industry’s most common quality test

Ontario agtech firm Croptracker Inc is proud to announce the launch of Starch Quality Vision; the latest artificial intelligence assessment tool for apple growers. The Starch Quality Vision (SQV) technology empowers orchard managers and apple growers to empirically and accurately score starch pattern index tests without the need for a trained assessor.

The starch-iodine test is one of the most important pre-harvest tests in the apple industry. In the weeks up to harvest time, growers may perform dozens of starch tests on hundreds of apples as they chart the maturity of the fruit and plan their harvests accordingly.

“What we learned early on in development is that a lot of growers are just eyeballing their starch tests to their best guess, and the human eye’s best guess is extremely subjective,” said Croptracker CEO Matt Deir. “During testing, even highly trained orchard managers who have been doing this for years scored the exact same fruit differently, even just five minutes apart. Growers use this test to determine their harvest dates, so a consistent score is critical to maximizing the quality and shelf life.”

The leading problem analysts tend to point to is this: a general decline in agricultural interest across the board (at least in North America). Experts claim this declining trend in agricultural interest has many contributing factors, such as:

Croptracker report displaying information captured using Strach Quality Vision

To develop Starch Quality Vision, the Croptracker team met with orchard managers from around the world to learn from the best in the business. With their help, SQV AI has trained on thousands of scored starch pattern tests.

The SQV software will be provided to Ontario Apple Growers members as part of their ongoing partnership with Cropracker. “This will provide us with more information on the quality of apples we are receiving during harvest.”, states Deon Boonzaier of Algoma Orchards in Newcastle, Ontario.

Using SQV, apple growers can be sure of the consistency and accuracy of their starch assessments, using just a mobile phone or tablet - Android or iOS.

SQV will be available starting August 15th. For more information on Starch Quality Vision, please visit the product page or contact Sales@croptracker.com.


Croptracker develops agtech solutions for industry leaders. Located in Eastern Ontario, Canada, our mission is to make crop production safer, more efficient, and more profitable. Designed in partnership with fresh market producers and distributors, every tool we create is based on direct industry feedback. Croptracker’s award-winning farm software optimizes recordkeeping, labor tracking, production and cost management. Our integrative Harvest Quality Vision technology offers instant empirical analysis of crop samples exactly when you need it. Optimize your harvest season with Croptracker’s customizable solutions. Visit Croptracker.com to learn more about our products and contact us for app based solutions.

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Over the past 12 months, Croptracker has developed, released and updated an incredible number of Harvest and Harvest Quality Vision features. In recognition of Croptracker’s accomplishments, Agtech Breakthrough Awards has recognized Croptracker with its 2022 Overall Harvest Solution Provider of the Year award.

Croptracker is proud to provide growers a comprehensive solution within its application for monitoring the entire harvesting season, so that information and data are integrated into clients’ decision making processes. Croptracker is a leader in crop based detection and reporting with its Harvest Quality Vision and its interconnected 17 additional modules including Harvest, Spray, Quality Control and Storage.

In accepting the 2022 Overall Harvest Solution Provider of the Year award, Matt Deir CEO and Founder of Croptracker says: ”We have been able to leverage growers’ expertise over the last 16 years in building software that is used all over the world. We hope to continue to build solutions that add value for fruit and vegetables growers for many years to come!”

Croptracker’s software is applicable and used by growers, packers, shippers and receivers from single family farms to multinational agriculture corporations. As of 2022, Croptracker is being used by over 1,200 farming organizations all around the world.

Book a demo to start using this award winning software and simplify your agriculture operation to today.


Croptracker develops agtech solutions for industry leaders. Located in Eastern Ontario, Canada, our mission is to make crop production safer, more efficient, and more profitable. Designed in partnership with fresh market producers and distributors, every tool we create is based on direct industry feedback. Croptracker’s award-winning farm software optimizes recordkeeping, labor tracking, production and cost management. Our integrative Harvest Quality Vision technology offers instant empirical analysis of crop samples exactly when you need it. Optimize your harvest season with Croptracker’s customizable solutions. Visit Croptracker.com to learn more about our products and to contact us about app based solutions.

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