Software for growers, boards and food processors

Agriculture, in short

{"slug":"agriculture","name":"Agriculture","title"."Agriculture and Agri-Tech Software Development | OlDevs","metaDesc":"OlDevs builds grower portals, board and government reporting, traceability records, crop data tools and computer vision grading for agriculture. Request a quote.","h1":"Software for growers, boards and food processors","heroSub":"Grower portals, levy and production reporting, traceability records, crop and yield data, and computer vision for grading. One accountable team, a working demo every week, and code you own outright.","answer":"OlDevs is a full-stack technology studio in Vancouver, British Columbia that builds software for growers, producer associations, marketing boards, agri-tech companies and food processors. The work usually covers grower portals, reporting into councils and government programs, traceability and compliance records, crop and yield data, and computer vision for grading and inspection. We also run export and awareness campaigns, including campaigns aimed at growers themselves. Request a quote to talk through a season plan.","keyFacts":[{"term":"Who we build for","value":"Growers, producer associations, marketing boards, agri-tech firms and food processors"},{"term":"Typical builds","value":"Grower portals, production and levy reporting, traceability records, field and yield dashboards"},{"term":"AI work","value":"Computer vision for grading and inspection, defect and disease detection, yield and demand forecasting"},{"term":"Marketing","value":"Export and international market campaigns, grower recruitment, awareness programs"},{"term":"Accessibility","value":"WCAG 2.2 AA, with bilingual English and French where the audience needs it"},{"term":"Ownership","value":"Clients own all code, designs, accounts and IP from the first commit"}],"challengesHeading":"What agriculture work actually asks of us","challenges":[{"title":"The season sets the deadline","desc":"An intake window opens once a year and closes on its own schedule. If a grower portal is late or unsteady during harvest, there is no second chance until the next crop, so releases get planned around the calendar the field sets.","tags":["Seasonality","Release planning","Uptime"]},{"title":"One number, many reports","desc":"Councils, boards and government programs each want acreage, production and levy figures in their own shape and on their own dates. A single figure a grower enters has to reach every report without drifting, and every correction has to stay traceable.","tags":["Reporting","Data integrity","Audit trail"]},{"title":"Records that face an audit","desc":"Lot codes, inputs, treatments and movements have to be reconstructable long after the season closes. That means structured history rather than free text notes, and records that survive staff turnover, spreadsheet exports and a buyer asking hard questions.","tags":["Traceability","Compliance","Records"]},{"title":"Poor signal where the work happens","desc":"Barns, packing lines and back blocks rarely have reliable coverage. Field apps have to capture offline, queue safely and resolve the case where two people record the same bin on different devices hours apart without quietly losing one of them.","tags":["Offline first","Mobile","Sync"]},{"title":"Grading judgement at line speed","desc":"Grading and inspection calls are made in seconds by people with years of judgement behind them. A vision model has to hold up on real produce that is dusty, wet and variable, and it has to show why it made a call or the line will stop trusting it.","tags":["Computer vision","Quality control","Trust"]},{"title":"Growers are a hard audience to reach","desc":"Growers are busy, widely spread and wary of marketing language. Campaigns aimed at them depend on plain wording, timing that respects field work, and the channels and meetings they already pay attention to rather than consumer tactics.","tags":["Audience","Campaigns","Plain language"]}],"howHeading":"How we help agriculture organisations","how":[{"title":"Grower portals and member accounts","desc":"Secure sign-in, farm and field records, submissions, documents and messages in one place, so growers stop emailing spreadsheets and staff stop rekeying them."},{"title":"Reporting to councils and government","desc":"Submission workflows, validation at the point of entry, deadline reminders and exports shaped for the body that receives them, with a full history of who changed what."},{"title":"Traceability and compliance records","desc":"Lot, input, treatment and movement records with structured history, so a recall question or a buyer audit can be answered from the system rather than from memory."},{"title":"Crop, field and yield data","desc":"Dashboards and data pipelines that bring field records, weather sources, packhouse output and lab results together, with forecasting where the history supports it."},{"title":"Computer vision for grading and inspection","desc":"Models trained on your own imagery for sizing, defect and disease detection, built to run at line speed and to hand borderline calls back to a person."},{"title":"Export and grower marketing","desc":"Search, content, paid social and analytics for international market development, plus awareness and recruitment campaigns written for growers rather than at them."}],"processHeading":"How an agriculture project runs","process":[{"label":"Field discovery","desc":"We sit with growers, field staff and the people who file the reports, then map the season, the data and the deadlines before anyone writes code."},{"label":"Data and reporting model","desc":"We agree the shape of the records, the validation rules and every report they feed, so the same figure never has to be entered or reconciled twice."},{"label":"Weekly working demos","desc":"You see something running every week. Feedback from growers and staff lands while it is still cheap to change, not after the build is finished."},{"label":"Pilot on a real season stage","desc":"A small group runs the software through an actual intake, grading run or reporting deadline, and we fix what that exposes before the wider rollout."},{"label":"Launch, training and support","desc":"Rollout with training in plain language, documentation your staff can hand over, and support that is awake during the parts of the year that matter."}],"recommended":["/web-app-development/","/ai-development/computer-vision/","/performance-marketing/"],"proof":[{"value":"2014","label":"Building software since"},{"value":"1 business day","label":"Reply to every enquiry"},{"value":"WCAG 2.2 AA","label":"Accessibility standard we build to"}],"faqs":[{"q":"Do you build grower portals for producer associations and marketing boards?","a":"Yes. A grower portal is one of the most common things we are asked for: sign-in for members, farm and field records, submissions and declarations, document storage and messaging. We design it so growers can complete a task on a phone in a few minutes and so office staff stop rekeying spreadsheets."},{"q":"Can the system report into councils, boards and government programs?","a":"That is usually the point of the build. We map every report the organisation has to file, validate figures where they are entered rather than at deadline, and generate exports in the shape each body expects. Changes are versioned so a corrected figure can always be explained later."},{"q":"How do you handle traceability and compliance records?","a":"We model lots, inputs, treatments and movements as structured records with history, rather than notes in a field. That lets you answer a recall or buyer audit question from the system. We build to the programs and standards you actually work under; we do not give legal or certification advice."},{"q":"Will the app work where there is no signal?","a":"Where field work demands it, yes. We build capture that works offline, queues submissions and syncs when a device gets coverage, with clear conflict handling when two people record the same bin or block. We decide this early, because offline capability shapes the whole data design."},{"q":"Can computer vision grade or inspect our produce?","a":"Often, and it depends on your imagery. We start with a feasibility step using your own photos or line footage to see whether sizing, defect or disease detection is realistic at your speeds. Models are built to flag uncertain cases for a person rather than to quietly guess."},{"q":"Do you handle export marketing and campaigns aimed at growers?","a":"Yes. For international market development we work on search, content, paid social and analytics tied to real enquiry data. For grower-facing campaigns we write in plain language, time messages around field work, and use the channels and meetings growers already attend."},{"q":"How do we get started with OlDevs?","a":"Request a quote with a short description of your crops, members or lines, the reports you have to file and the season you need to be ready for. We reply within one business day and arrange a call in your own time zone. From there you get a scope, a delivery plan and the demo schedule for the first few weeks."}]}