Driving Efficiency in Potato Production: How CSS Farms Uses HarvestEye!

The Challenge

Efficiency is critical in large-scale potato production, where daily activities such as tuber sizing and sorting can significantly impact yield, quality, and operational costs. Traditional sizing methods often rely on manual sampling, which can be time-consuming and prone to variability. This creates challenges in maintaining consistency, reducing inefficiencies, and meeting customer requirements at scale.

CSS Farms are always looking for ways to improve operations, CSS Farms turned to HarvestEye to enhance their tuber sizing and sorting processes.

The Solution

To address the need for greater efficiency and consistency in tuber sizing, HarvestEye offered CSS Farms a practical way to bridge the gap between traditional methods and the demands of large-scale production. By fitting seamlessly onto existing equipment, the system unlocked new layers of operational insight without disrupting established workflows. Rather than relying on small, time-consuming manual samples, CSS Farms could now capture and analyze data continuously throughout harvest, giving them the clarity and control needed to streamline processes and adapt quickly to customer requirements.

The Results

By adopting HarvestEye, CSS Farms has gained access to sizing information that is far more accurate and reliable than traditional manual methods, thanks to the much larger sample sizes the system can process. This improvement has reduced variability, given the team greater confidence in their data, and allowed them to make better-informed decisions about sorting and supply. Beyond accuracy, the technology has also helped streamline operations by cutting down on time-intensive manual sizing, creating efficiencies that support their large-scale farming model. With data instantly available through the HarvestEye web portal, CSS Farms now benefits from faster, clearer insights that strengthen both day-to-day operations and long-term planning.

They explained how HarvestEye is simple to integrate. It’s just a matter of finding the right physical location on the existing equipment, and then the information is readily available and easy to find on the HarvestEye web portal.