HORIZON-CL6-2027-02-FARM2FORK-05: Supporting farmers' profitability [Marketable Yield estimation during harvest]

The HarvestEye product uses a camera installed on top of harvester belts and counts, sizes, and weights potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, and apples at the point of harvest. This system can be easily controlled by the tractor driver and produces marketable yield maps, allowing growers to understand the performance of their fields in real time.

There are two extensions to the product: HarvestEye HandHeld can be used in digs to take snapshots of the crop, producing objective reports on size, weight, and count of samples of the data. HarvestEye Defect Detection expands the HandHeld product to also detect and report external defects, such as scab, infestation, and bruising.

HarvestEye is being used internationally to help growers and packers understand their actual marketable yield (e.g. yield of a particular size), understand the proportion of expected out-of-spec crop, and compare yields between sites, varieties, trials, and fields. Insights have been used by trial teams to select varieties to take forwards, agronomists produce objective data proving the effect of NetZero treatments (specially linked to successful marketable yields with fewer inputs), procurement teams to plan promotions, and growers and agronomists understand the status of the Harvest.

We are looking for more use cases, expansion to other crops, and more markets within our current crop portfolio to expand the use technology.