Scouting in the field
A phone app the scouts carry into the orchard. It works without signal, follows a planned route, and the counts come in on their own when the phone is back in range.
Precision crop management
Everything that happens in the orchard, in one place.
FruitGuard brings scouting, spray programmes, irrigation, fertiliser and harvest together, so everyone running the farm sees the same picture - and every decision rests on what was actually counted in the field.
Morning brief
Tuesday
- 2 sprays due this weekBlock 12 and Block 14 · instructions ready
- Thrips above threshold3 orchards · scouted yesterday
- Irrigate blocks 4-7 tomorrowsoil water near the refill point
- 1,240 bins picked last weekahead of last season at this point
What it does
From the scout's first count to the last bin picked.
Spray programmes
A season's programme for every orchard, checked against the label and the withholding period, sent to the sprayer as a clear instruction - and recorded when it goes on.
Irrigation
A daily water balance for each orchard from the weather and the system's own delivery, so the question each morning is simply what to run, and for how long.
Fertiliser & soil
Programmes built from leaf and soil analyses, with lime and soil corrections, and fertigation laid out tank by tank.
Harvest
Bins per day, per team and per orchard, and the season's pace against last year and the target - without a spreadsheet passed around every evening.
The morning brief
Each farm's day on one page: what is due, what changed overnight, and what needs a decision. In the app every morning, and by email if you want it.
One orchard, the whole season
Scouting, sprays, water and fruit size, side by side.
Every orchard gets a season timeline - what was scouted, what went on, the water and fertiliser it got, and how the fruit is growing - so you can see what happened together.
Block 12 · Navels · 2025/26
below threshold watch above threshold spray fertiliser
1
Thrips went into the red 10 days after petal fall. The spray went on two days later, and the counts were back below the threshold within 12 days.
2
Fruit size has run behind the curve since mid-February - the same weeks the irrigation ran under the plan.
Did it work?
Thrips spray · 7 OctKnocked down
Fruit infested, scouted before the spray and two weeks after.
Against orchards like it
Block 12 against 9 navel orchards of the same age, on drip
Water this season12% below the group
Thrips sprays2 · group 2-3
Bins per hectare last season8% above
Before you save
Move the mite spray a week later
The withholding period would end 3 days after the planned first pick.
You see what a change does before it is saved - the decision stays yours.
How it thinks
Careful beats clever.
1
Built on what was counted
Every recommendation traces back to scouting, records and the orchard's own setup - not to a calendar or a guess.
2
Your agronomist decides
FruitGuard drafts and checks. A person approves. When something is uncertain, it says so rather than sounding sure.
3
One record of what happened
The plan, and what was actually done - who did it and on which day - kept side by side, season after season.
Who it's for
Everyone who works the orchard.
Growers & farm managers
Every farm and orchard in one view, and the morning's decisions laid out before the day starts.
Agronomists & consultants
All your clients behind one login, each farm's programmes and records kept separate and private.
Scouts, sprayers & picking teams
A phone app with plain instructions, made for the field - including the corners with no signal.
Built in citrus, and growing into stone fruit, grapes and potatoes.
See it on your farm.
FruitGuard is running with a small group of South African growers. If you'd like to see what it would do for yours, get in touch.