Innovative orchard and vineyard technologies for precision agriculture

"With today’s labor challenges and tight budgets, precision matters more than ever. Vivid helped us achieve our crop goals on budget.

What Vivid gives us is clarity on where to focus our crews and inputs. Instead of guessing, we can see which parts of the block actually need work and then decide the most efficient way to get down to our target crop load - whether that’s hedging, spraying, or hand thinning.

As we bring more variable-rate equipment online, that data becomes even more valuable. The goal is to treat each part of the block with the right level of input, giving us more tools to achieve our yield goals with fewer resources.

The biggest win is being able to plan within real constraints - labor, budget, timing - and still stay in control of crop load."

“From mid-July, the fruit growth rate let us adjust our irrigation and fertilizer applications to be able to produce the right size fruit for our markets to get the best returns.”

"Compared to the control blocks, we were able to achieve 17% spray reduction using the fruit count task map to vary spray rates per tree, and still achieve our target fruit count of 100 apples per tree."

"We’re very happy to have been one of the first to try Vivid Machines’ Vivid XV spectral imaging system to increase yield forecasting accuracy in our apple orchards. By the end of the season last year, yield prediction accuracy was, on average, 90%, which gave us the confidence to commit to working with Vivid. We knew their technology could help us improve yield and quality while also increasing sales. We look forward to making full use of the Vivid XV system this growing season."

"We’ve enjoyed working with the Vivid Machines team. They were able to provide 91% accuracy on yield estimates, and we really appreciated the team’s excellent customer service."

"When we’re thinning, we scan the blossoms and the Vivid XV can tell me how many clusters are out there on each tree. I can look at the data at my desk with my coffee, see I have way too many blossoms on a section of my Ambrosia, as an example, and decide what to mix in my tank for spraying that specific area. With hand thinning, I can get right down to a tree and decide how many apples we need to take off that day. It’s not guess work any more."