Source Cultivate Now Offers Pre-Season Simulations to Maximize Yield
September 10, 2024 Source.ag, a provider of AI solutions for vegetable growers, announced pre-season simulations for Source Cultivate on September 5, 2024. This latest update allows growers to go beyond mid-season and simulate an entire cultivation period, increasing greenhouse efficiency. Source Cultivate now enables growers to strategically use data to optimize growth conditions and increase yield outcomes before a single seed is planted.
Since its initial launch in July of 2024, Source Cultivate has successfully supported growers in optimizing their yield forecasting and sales operations. The solution achieved an 84% accuracy rate for yield forecasts made up to eight weeks in advance during the last season.
With the newest version of Source Cultivate, greenhouse growers will be able to compare multiple scenarios to choose the most economically beneficial, least risky, or most sustainable strategy for the season before it begins. This includes the following:
- Adjusting your artificial lighting plan and observe how it affects the development of both fruits and plants.
- Considering how several weeks of high temperature or reduced sunlight might impact your plants, and simulate the potential effects.
- Setting targets for plant stem density and fruit pruning, and seeing how these decisions impact plant load.
- Monitoring the growth factor throughout the process to ensure your plants remain healthy.
“We are thrilled to take greenhouse operational efficiency to the next level with the pre-season simulations launch for Source Cultivate,” said Rien Kamman, CEO and co-founder of Source.ag. “The solution provides unmatched precision for yield forecasting, and with the new release, growers can estimate their harvest expectations even before the season starts.”
By simulating the outcome of cultivation strategies, Source Cultivate supports growers in their decision-making process with accurate, real-time yield forecasts. It provides growers with consistent insights into how cultivation strategies, along with local greenhouse conditions, impact new fruit sets, plant load, and potential harvest. With Source Cultivate handling data analysis for yield forecasting, growers can focus on greenhouse management.
Source.ag’s solutions have been rolled out across the largest global fresh vegetable segments—tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers—with the eventual aim of improving operations for all fruit and vegetable growers.
Source.ag’s clients include Agro Care, Thanet Earth, The Green House Growers, Grupa Mularski, Le Jardin de Rabelais, and other leading growers worldwide. Globally, more than 300 commercial greenhouses in 18 countries benefit from Source.ag’s solutions.
The latest version of Source Cultivate is now available to growers worldwide. You can find more details about the update in a blog post on Source.ag’s website.