Innov8.ag has released its HarvestReplay, a service that transforms data into a decision-making tool. It looks at an operation’s labor, crop production and harvest management and provides daily, weekly, monthly and seasonal insights.
The company says HarvestReplay delivers these insights into online visualizations and customized daily audio briefings with three key features:
- Replay history — Deep, retrospective analysis in geospatial views that turns multiyear harvest and labor records into reports and benchmarks showing true cost per unit, block and variety performance and the economics of past harvest decisions.
- Replay live — Same‑day and in‑day feedback layered on GPS labor tracking, with benchmarks and alerts to flag issues like station congestion, slowdowns or misallocated crews so managers can reassign in the same shift.
- Replay podcast — An artificial intelligence-generated, multilingual, interactive private audio intelligence briefing built from a grower’s own harvest data, tailored for each key farm role, delivered daily, weekly, monthly or seasonally to match operational needs.
HarvestReplay is built on more than a decade of commercial harvest data, which includes 12.3 million recorded farm labor hours and 11.1 million captured GPS events, according to Innov8.ag. The service also integrates proprietary and public data sources, such as university research, labor modeling and aggregated benchmarks from technology, research and industry partners.
HarvestReplay can also connect field data with packinghouse outcomes to create a closed-loop system to better inform how a crop was harvested, how it graded and performed postharvest.
‘Remember When?’ With Context
Innov8.ag founder and CEO Steve Mantle says HarvestReplay takes the historical data of an operation and provides data and context in a more modern “Remember when?” that growers so fondly speak of.
Mantle says this daily audio briefing can provide information such as the forecast ahead so growers can better anticipate potential weather interruptions, trends and context around production. He says this is all with the intention of helping growers better understand current trends and also places to improve.
Instead of relying on spreadsheets and raw data, HarvestReplay helps a grower see things differently, Mantle says.
“Where it’s not just reliant on memory alone,” he says.
The audio briefings, Mantle says, help set a grower’s agenda for the day.
“This is like a game film review for Friday,” he says, adding that most HarvestReplay users listen to the briefing to start the day and then check in and see the HarvestReplay data in real time.
“This audio intelligence briefing shows what happened yesterday and what could have gone differently, then that turns into today’s playbook,” he says. “Then [growers] can also log in and check what’s happening in the moment on that day.”
Mantle says that information gleaned before the day begins can have a big impact on the day’s productivity.
“We see actually trends up hour to hour to hour to hour,” he says. “So, getting it right, right out the door where your people are knocking out of the ballpark, that’s where your bang for the buck is.”
The audio playbook is interactive, he says, where growers can push a button to ask for the top things to know about that day or for more context.
Rollout And Pricing
As of now, HarvestReplay is for current Innov8.ag customers growing blueberries, cherries and apples, Mantle says. He says the company has the most confidence in the data already in its system, but plans a broader rollout in 2027.
Pricing is at scale, he adds.
Return on investment, Mantle says, has a high potential, especially as HarvestReplay informs more efficiencies on the farm.
“When your farmers are running big crews, say 1,000 or more, even a few points of labor productivity has this massive impact straight to their profitability,” he says. “A 7% to 8% improvement in a 1,000-worker operation, doing something like just optimizing harvest station placements so workers spend less time walking, with scale it can actually translate into a seven-figure savings.”
Innov8.ag estimates HarvestReplay can offer an estimated savings of:
- $25,000 to $100,000 for small-scale farms (less than 100 workers).
- $100,000 to $250,000 for medium-scale operations (100 to 999 workers).
- $250,000 to $750,000 and up for large-scale agribusinesses (1,000-plus workers).
