ifarm - Model Growtune - All-in-one Farm Management Software
Running a vertical farm may seem tricky. That’s why we developed an application that enables you to manage your farm in a couple of clicks. The iFarm Growtune SaaS Platform contains knowledge sourced from hundreds of farming professionals — agronomists, plant health specialists, engineers, biologists, etc. — and helps you make smart decisions to achieve greater yields.
COST-EFFECTIVE
Growing edible plants on a large scale can be complicated, as well as both technically and financially demanding. On top of that farm, owners face the challenge of hiring highly qualified staff whose salaries can constitute up to 60% of total expenditure.
By reducing the amount of work that needs to be done manually, iFarm helps to decrease labor costs by 20%, thus lowering the end cost of each kg of produce.
How do we achieve that? Our in-house team includes advanced specialists in crop science and agriculture, experienced managers, and the brightest software engineers.
Their expertise is available to all iFarm clients in the form of a library with plant growth recipes. Combined with iFarm’s set of online tools, it enables smooth management of vertical farms of all kinds.
The plant growth recipes take into account the following vital parameters and procedures to ensure that every crop is carefully grown:
- temperature, humidity, CO2*
- Irrigation and fertigation schedule*
- nutrient content and concentration*
- lighting schedule*
- growth cycles*
- interactive plant care guides for farm staff
- Choose the farm type, method of harvesting (automatic or manual) and the desired volume of end-product
- The system offers planting and harvesting dates with consideration of current and forecasted use of farm capacities
- If you manage more than one farm, Growtune can suggest how to manage planting across multiple locations
- Automatically calculate the retail price of your products based on a library of recommended and seasonal prices
- Select buyers from a catalogue of loyal customers quickly and efficiently
- Create profiles for new clients
- Confirm and place the order with the production site
- Allocate the planting to another client
- Distribute the planting among multiple clients
- Adjust harvesting dates
- Move plantings
- Detect and remove defective plants
- Available checklists with detailed instructions for every procedure
- Task reminders
- Track task execution, with detailed journaling of climate and environmental conditions
- Create additional tasks when needed
- Maintain complete control of farm environments with emergency alerts
- Current and scheduled plantings are visually represented in a Gantt Chart
- See the capacity utilisation of a production site in a detailed interactive plan for any given day
- The plan contains up-to-date data about the vital farm metrics, such as shelf sizes, growing rack heights, growth cycles and the actual number of crops on the shelves
- Yield and sales statistics by farm: planned/actual/defect, harvested/to harvest, area turnover, sales forecast/sold
- Capacity statistics: vacant/planted areas, growing area, etc.
- Crop statistics and potential: number of crops, plant types and varieties
- Custom reports
- Ready-made plant recipes store
- Possibility to create your own plant growth recipes
- Remote control of the climate, lighting, and watering from anywhere in the world
- Application of computer vision to enable automatic tracking of current plantings and creating tickets for the delivery of new seedlings
- Notifications about yield being ready for harvesting, its growth, or any microclimate deviations
- A store for ordering consumables
- Online customer support and consultations by agronomists
- Video and photo monitoring, with the possibility to share photos and videos on social media
- Journal for observations
- Video training, interactive guides
- detect any deviations at an early stage
- identify plant diseases automatically
- determine plant weight and maturity by image
- Notifications sent to alert employees when action needs to be taken
- set microclimate parameters and adjust plant growth formulas
- get help from our smart chatbot assistant