Crop Performance provides geospatial analytics enabling growers and the food supply chain to increase crop yields, conserve resources and monitor the ecological impact of growing safe and healthy food.
Crop Performance analytics quantify the yield potential and environmental impact of food production at field, farm and catchment scales.
Crop Performance works with growers, food companies and retailers to improve productivity, conserve resources, and monitor the environmental impact of food production.
The food and agriculture industry benefits with more accurate supply forecasts, an enhanced visibility to source commodities, assess risk and monitor the impact of climate change on agriculture:
- Crop Performance analytics forecast crop yields with accuracy in advance of harvest.
- The data is used to inform in-season yield, water & nutrient status of crops at the field scale.
- Customers of growers in the supply chain benefit from an integrated view of supply to inform sourcing, harvest planning and logistics.
The Crop Performance Intelligence Platform™
The Crop Performance Intelligence Platform™ enables growers to optimize water and nutrients to achieve higher yields of quality crops.
Crop Performance offers a range of analytics via its Crop Intelligence Platform™, including:
Optimise resource use efficiency of crops such as potatoes, wheat, maize, soybeans, sugar beet, oil seed rape, wine grapes, citrus and avocados.
Identify location of crop varieties planted, and chart annual performance.
Know yield in advance of harvest with certainty, and assess vulnerability to disease, drought and floods.
Select, monitor and optimize traits for yield and quality.
Monitor changes in water quality, erosion and runoff, nutrient and sediment loading, biodiversity and habitat, and quantify the value of riparian restoration and flood protection.
Quantify the adaptive capacity of land for existing and new property acquisitions.
How do our customers benefit?
Crop Performance provides solutions that enable the food industry to source a reliable supply of crops, manage risk, ensure efficient use of resources to produce food while protecting the environment allowing them to:
Grow more for less
Data informs decisions to increase yield; growers conserve water & nutrients.
Lower cost of production; improve profit per acre.
Know risk & predict crop supply
Data predicts crop yield increasing the certainty of supply.
Proactively manage margin commitments.
Verify acres planted
Food companies, retailers verify acres planted; monitor supply in advance of the market.
Informs multiyear hedge decisions.
The Team
Stephanie has enjoyed a successful career working in the global food and beverage and technology sectors in over fifty countries and has founded three companies focused on sustainable sourcing, supply chain, environmental and risk management solutions for the agriculture, food, water and natural resource industries. She has built a talented and expanded team drawn from academia, the sciences, business and technology to support the vision of providing world class, innovative geo-spatial analytics to people and business helping them realise their full potential by automating insights and intelligence on sustainable landscapes in light of climate change. Crop Performance is a predictive analytics company focused on the commercialisation of remote sensing to improve crop yields, mitigate risk due to climate change, monitor environment impact of food production and create resilient landscapes through monitoring soil health, water quality and ecosystem services at the catchment scale.
Crop Performance provides environmental analytics to inform complex decisions related to food and water security, climate risk and sustainable landscapes. Crop Performance values risk and provides micro-finance to growers and land managers to mitigate the impact of climate change on food production and environmental services such as soil health and clean water. Early warning networks predict drought, flood, fire, pest and disease to protect yield, mitigate risk and enable communities to create resilient landscapes in the face of climate change.
The Crop Performance team has over 200+ years of combined multi-disciplinary experience in plant physiology, plant pathology, crop, soil and atmosphere science, hydrology, geomorphology, wetland ecology, remote sensing, crop and environmental modeling and monitoring for the purposes of assessing crop performance and watershed health in agricultural wild land, and municipal landscapes.
Founder & CEO
Stephanie Race is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive of Crop Performance Ltd. Crop Performance works with growers and food companies to improve productivity, conserve resources, and monitor the environmental impact of agriculture and food production on land and water use. Crop Performance provides in-season crop yield forecasts increasing the certainty of supply, enabling growers to anticipate how changes in temperature and precipitation will impact yields, allowing food companies to adapt their sourcing practices and commodities fund managers to hedge with facts informed by scientific insights. Crop Performance monitors crop growth & development, water, soil fertility, crop nutrition and greenhouse gas emissions in crop, pasture and rangeland systems and monitors impacts of erosion and runoff, nutrient and sediment loading and biological conditions in watersheds. Stephanie has been providing sourcing and risk management solutions for the agriculture, food & beverage industry for over 25 years. One of the early pioneers of IoT, Stephanie developed the first product data exchange utilizing electronic product codes to delineate location based sourcing via the global trading identification number creating the foundation for provenance in the food and consumer products industry. Stephanie has founded three data and analytics companies in the food and agriculture supply chain, including the first informatics platform to monitor the environmental outcomes (soil health, water quality and ghg emissions) of growing vegetables and cereal crops at scale. Stephanie was a Partner at Accenture, leading the firm’s Enterprise Data Management and Business Analytics Practice for the Food, Retail and Consumer Products industry and gained her corporate technology experience with executive leadership roles in the Product Engineering and Consulting Services organizations of Oracle Corporation and Andersen Consulting. In collaboration with NASA, she conceived and built solutions using satellite based earth observation data to analyze the economics of agriculture, land use, infrastructure and water for the food and beverage industry. Stephanie co-founded Global Map Aid. Global Map Aid provides geospatial imagery to humanitarian assistance organizations such as USAID, UNHCR, World Vision, Red Cross and Oxfam, resulting in efficient distribution of aid to those in need. Stephanie received a B.S. Business Administration, a M.S. Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD Industrial Marketing & Electronic Commerce from Lulea University of Technology.
Our team
Founder & CEO
Stephanie has been providing sourcing and risk management solutions for the agriculture, food & beverage industry for over 25 years.
Chief Technology Officer
Jeff has an established track record developing large-scale systems across a wide variety of languages, platforms, and industries.
Plant Physiologist
Marcus is a plant & biological process modeller with over 20 years experience of planning, programming and developing descriptive and predictive models for both academic and industrial clients.
Plant Pathologist
Neal is a Plant Pathologist with Crop Performance focused on epidemiology of pathogen-host interactions with respect to climatic data with an interest in crop development and disease forecasting.
Events
The Future of Food Production 2022
Nature Positive Business: How Can System Transformation Deliver Nutrient Security, Community and Landscape Resilience?
17 November 2022 – London UK & Online
Regenerative Agriculture and Food Systems Summit 2022
Building Alliances in a Competitive Industry to Create Additional Value and Drive Mass Adoption of Regenerative Agriculture
6 – 7 September 2022 – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Down to Earth
Roadmap to Net Zero: Creating Resilience in Livestock Farming Systems in Times of Climate Change
June 15, 2022 – Shropshire UK
Investing in Regenerative Agriculture Podcast: Demystifying Science to Help Farmers Make Better Decisions
February 21st, 2020
Economist Event: Feeding the Future
September 26th, 2019 – London
Food Tank Podcast: Preparing for Future Farming Requires Multi-Disciplinary Data
April 5th, 2019
African Trade and Investment Global Summit
ATGIS, Food Security in Africa
June 24th – 26th, 2018 – Washington DC
3rd Annual California Water Board Science Symposium: Adapting in the Face of Disruptive Landscape Change
June 20th – 21st, 2018 – Sacramento, California
Financial Times / IFC Transformational Business Conference
Sustainable Development Goals: Leveraging Technology and Finance to Boost Food and Water Security
June 6th, 2018 – London
Feature Television Program – Emerald Planet: The Future of Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security in Africa
May 6th, 2018
FT The Future of Agriculture
October 10th, 2017 – London
AgriMoney Live
May 25th, 2017 – London
https://www.agrimoney.com/
https://agrimoneyinvestmentforum.com/
African Green Revolution Forum
September 7th, 2016 – Nairobi Kenya
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Global Ag Tech Week
June 21st – 23rd, 2016 – San Francisco, California
Food and Agriculture Next
May 25th – 26th, 2016 – Wageningen, Netherlands
Innovations in Agri-Tech
May 5th, 2016 – University of Cambridge
Global Ag Investing Europe
November 30th – December 2nd, 2015 – London
World Agri Tech Investment Summit
November 3rd – 4th, 2015 – London
Resilient Supply Chains – World Bank
October 19th, 2015 – London
Global AG Tech Week
June 22nd – 24th, 2015 – San Francisco, California
Tiecon – AG Data Economy
May 15th, 2015 – Santa Clara, California
Global Internet of Things
May 13th, 2015 – San Francisco, California