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PickTrace (YC S15) Helps Farmers Manage Their Harvest

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Congrats on the launch, guys!

PickTrace is solving one of those massive problems that I assumed was already solved by technology, until I spent a week on a family-owned farm a few summers ago.

The amount of labor to track the crop yield and the time-tracking/pay of your workforce is staggering. There are some really expensive solutions out there for huge farms, but the 400+ acre farm I visited used manual scales, clipboards, and a huge team of "counters" - essentially verifying and QAing the whole process.

Thank you! That is exactly the problem that instigated the creation of PickTrace. It is a problem that is uniform across almost all high value crops. It takes days to calculate payroll and often times leads to inaccuracies and mistakes. PickTrace sends this data from the field to a web server where the farmer can view analytics, review timecards, productivity, and complete payroll in real-time.

Hey all! I'm one of the two founders of PickTrace! Our system helps keep track of labor and harvest for agriculture, we would be happy to answer any and all questions!

Do you have an email I could contact you on? I can't see one in your profile.

just updated my "about" to have my email: austin.steed at picktrace dot com (sorry don't want bots to pick it up)

looks like an interesting project. we have literally hundreds of thousands of acres of labor intensive agriculture(fruit trees) around where i live and this is a big problem to solve. congrats!

have you reached out to companies like stemilt at all? or just growing organically for now?

Thanks for the comment! Yes we have reached out to a few companies similar to Stemilt and are always looking to expand! We find that larger operations are very excited by our analytics.

Can't believe this didn't already exist. Grats!

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