C-Lewis Style Video Breakdown_Fieldin_Palla Ag Services

0:27My name's Brad Sabru. I'm born and raised here in Bakersfield. I've been farming all my life. I'm, fourth generation in my family. We farm close to 3,000 acres in total, primarily almonds. Here at Paula Ag Services, we, we're very forward-thinking. We're very accepting to try new technology. When we were first introduced to Fieldin, we were very excited about some of the technology that was going to add value to our operations. My name is Darren Boney. I am a Grower Success Manager here at Fieldin, and I take care of Paula Ag Services.

0:59Their company is spread out across the valley, some spaces over 30 miles apart from the others. As a ranch manager, I was in a hurry to race out of my house and run around the fields and make sure guys were getting off to work and starting the tractors on time, but it was getting very difficult for me to cover distance and, and watch over all of our activities. With someone like Brad only working, you know, just him managing all of that, it's very difficult for him to understand what's going on in all those locations at once. Now, with Fieldin, I can get up and meet the crew at one location at 6:30, look on my phone or iPad at another location that's 30 miles away from me, and I can see that they're moving and getting started.

1:41I have the live view open almost all day long. I, I, I'm probably one of the higher users of Fieldin. I don't know, but it's on all the time. So I've been working with Paula for over five years now, and over that time I've seen a lot of change in their operation, a lot of it based off of our data, and also based off of the insights that we're able to provide them. Our complete company culture's changed. Our guys now realize why we have GPS trackers in the machines. They at first were a little skeptical, but they've all become more knowledgeable in how our company runs and how efficiencies matter.

2:18I have operators who don't speak English, and they'll ask me, "Hey, how did I do today? Did I make money today for the company?" And I can tell them yes or no. Paula Ag was really heavy on wanting to be able to not only keep that big layer of visibility across their operation, but they are very involved, getting deep into the data in terms of being able to utilize that data for, cost analysis, for, understanding at a block level what all their metrics are.

2:49Without Fieldin, it'd be very complicated. I, I think to myself a lot about going back to the good old days when we didn't have it, and I'd be running crazy, pulling out my hair. I, I don't have much hair left. But with Fieldin, I'm able to do everything and have time to focus in on other aspects of my job that I need to have detail time for. From day-to-day activities to yearly decisions on our costing. You know, every year we've got to adjust, and so i- it's just been something to us that I could not see the last seven or eight years being without.

3:24It would've been really, really difficult, and we're, we're just very happy to team up with Fieldin.