Testimonials

Feedback From Our Clients

From the Manager of a Kiwifruit Operation

Chris Anstis manages 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. Here’s what Chris had to say about agCommander.

“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 as those 8 programs, using agCommander and one other. 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”

Chris Anstis – Manager, P & M Anstis Trust, Opotiki, New Zealands

From the Manager of a Mixed Grain and Livestock Farming Operation

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 inventory’s -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 lets all levels of staff 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 kilometres 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.

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.

Murray Hall – Manager, Hallsbrook, Brookton, Western Australia

From the CTO of an Agricultural Technologies Company with a Horticulture Focus

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.

Idan Elingold – CTO, Zemach Agricultural Technologies, Jordan Valley, Israel

From the Viticultural Agronomist of a Wine Producer

At ANAIA Wines in Agrelo, Mendoza, Argentina, we manage 57 hectares of vineyards, and gCommander 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.”

Emiliano Caetano  – Ing. Agrónomo – Anaia Wines, Agrelo, Argentina 

From the Viticulture and R & D Manager of a Wine Producer

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 analyse 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.
 
 Jan Erik Wild – VT & R&D Manager, Monsoon Valley Vineyards, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand

From the Managing Director of a Macadamia Grower

Saratoga Holdings is the Australian holding company for the macadamia farming businesses at Hinkler Park Plantations (HPP), Queensland, Victoria Park Plantations (VPP), 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.

 

Here’s what Peter Zadro, former Saratoga CEO and now Managing Director of the South African operations had to say about agCommander …

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 program s 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.

Peter Zadro – Managing Director, Barberton Valley Plantations, Barberton, South Africa