Maximizing Profitability
Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Agworld
Tech Stack
- Cloud-based platform
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Agriculture
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Farm Monitoring & Precision Farming
- Supply Chain Visibility
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
About The Customer
Lance Funk Farms is a large-scale farming operation based in Power County, Idaho. With 36,000 acres of irrigated cropping land, the farm produces a variety of crops including potatoes, wheat, sugar beets, corn, barley, and safflower. The farm employs over 110 full-time employees, with an additional 150 seasonal employees during peak season. The farm's largest crop in terms of acreage is wheat, while potatoes are the biggest contributor financially. The farm grows 19 different varieties of potatoes, in addition to the other crops, which adds to the complexity of managing the operation.
The Challenge
Lance Funk Farms, one of the USA’s largest suppliers of potatoes, was using multiple legacy software systems for precision functionality, but none of these systems offered any record keeping ability. In order to organize the farming operation with up to 250 employees in peak season, management had to rely on spreadsheets. The sheer size of the operation, in combination with the variety of crops grown, drove the farm to explore software solutions that could help better manage the operation and aid with traceability. Before adopting Agworld, they would make a standardized spray program and every field kind of got the same inputs applied.
The Solution
After finding out about Agworld, Director of Agriculture for Lance Funk Farms Todd Kirwan, spoke to his agronomy and inputs supplier Valley Agronomics who were just starting to implement Agworld in their organization. When he realized the advantages that Agworld could offer the farming operation and the synergies that using Agworld in combination with his agronomy service provider would offer them, Todd Kirwan decided to implement Agworld. By using Agworld, Lance Funk Farms is able to organize itself with much greater ease and Farm Managers are able to answer their own questions about a wide variety of crop management questions instead of constantly having to ask questions to agronomists and others.
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