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Enhancing Potato Insights With Real-Time Sizing Technology at Cavendish Farms

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Potato

Challenge

For Cavendish Farms, accurately understanding potato size and quality before harvest is critical. Traditional 10-foot field samples provided limited snapshots, making it harder to track tuber bulking, forecast marketable yields, confirm contracted volumes, and assess seed potato size which adds uncertainty to planning and procurement decisions.

Results

Early expectations are strong, with HarvestEye expected to improve real-time insight into crop size and marketable yield. Better tuber bulking data should support more accurate forecasting and contract management, while visibility into seed size on delivery will improve early-season quality and consistency.

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About your Customer

Cavendish Farms is a family-owned Canadian food company and one of North America’s largest producers of frozen potato products, rooted in a heritage of quality, innovation, and strong relationships with farmers and communities.

Since its founding in 1980 as part of the J.D. Irving Group, the company has grown with a focus on excellence from seed to table producing high-quality products, exceeding customer needs, and championing sustainability, teamwork, and continuous improvement across its operations and growing regions.

The Challenge

For Cavendish Farms, one of North America’s leading frozen French fry manufacturers, understanding potato size and quality ahead of harvest is essential. Traditionally, the team relied on 10-foot field strip samples to gauge tuber size and predict crop performance. While useful, this method provided only snapshots of the field rather than a continuous, real-time view.

This limitation made it harder to monitor tuber bulking, forecast yield accurately, and assess whether contracted volumes would be met. The company also sought a more effective way to evaluate seed potato size during spring deliveries to process growers. Without deeper, ongoing insight, decisions related to procurement, crop planning, and quality management carried avoidable uncertainty.

The Solution

Based on strong internal recommendations from their team in Prince Edward Island, Cavendish Farms chose to explore HarvestEye as a modern tool for improving visibility into potato size distribution.

HarvestEye’s vision-based technology offers real-time sizing data directly from the conveyor line, giving growers and processors immediate insight into crop performance during key stages. Cavendish Farms plans to deploy the system during upcoming harvest operations in Alberta, as well as during spring seed inspections.

The team is currently preparing to validate HarvestEye’s output against manual measurements to ensure alignment with their agronomic and procurement standards. Its planned integration is designed to enhance monitoring efficiency and increase data accuracy throughout the growing and delivery cycles.

 

The Results

Early expectations are strong, with HarvestEye anticipated to deliver improved real-time understanding of crop size and yield potential before and during harvest. Greater accuracy in monitoring tuber bulking is expected to support better forecasting and contract management, while enhanced visibility of seed potato size on delivery will help ensure uniformity and quality from the outset of the season. By reducing reliance on manual sampling, HarvestEye is also set to free up time and improve data consistency across fields and growers.

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