Agriculture Consulting Services

Greg Crossgrove Consulting provides a diverse variety of Agriculture consulting services with expertise in produce, food safety, greenhouse and solar development, business planning and precision farming of vegetable and grain crops. We work and assist you to help develop advanced action plans tailored to your specific business needs.

Our main areas of consulting are focused and concentrated in:

  • Crop Production
  • Food Safety
  • Harvesting
  • Packing
  • Cooling
  • Facility Designs
  • Marketing
  • Food Safety and Organic Certification
  • Greenhouse and Solar Design and Development
  • Physical and Virtual Training
  • Grower/ Shipper Contacts

We provide growers and shippers a progressively responsible experience, learning and applying the technical and professional skills required for profitable farming operations.

Additional areas of Agriculture consulting services we provide include:

FOOD SAFETY PREPARATION

Farm (GAP) Good Agricultural Practices
Harvesting/ Packing
Shed/ Cooling
Shipping
Product Traceability Initiative
Organic certification of farm land, growing and harvesting equipment, packing and cooling facilities

PRODUCTION

Soil Sample
Field Selection
Ground Preparation
Fertilizer Program
Herbicide Requirement
Fungicide Program
Seed Selection:
–Varieties
–Trials/ Trial Monitoring
–Purchasing
Planting:
–Planting Schedule
–Spacing
–Depth
Water Management:
–Pre-Irrigation Schedule
—-Certa-Set® Pipe System
—-Furrow
—-Sub-surface Drip
—-Center Pivot
–Weekly Irrigation Schedule/ Water Requirements
–Last Water Before Harvest
Cultural Program:
–Soil Samples
–Tissue Sample Review
–Spiking
–Cultivating
–Side-dress Program/ Fertilizer
Crop Scouting:
–Weekly Monitoring Schedule
–Insect/ Fungicide/ Herbicide/ Fertilizer
–Spray Schedules
Monitor Fields:
–Walk Fields Weekly/ 2 – 3 Times/ As Needed
–Field Reports    

HARVESTING

Schedule Last Water
Harvest Equipment Ready for Harvest
Daily Harvest Schedule
Labor    

PACKING/ COOLING

Packing Line Set-up
Cooling:
–Ice Machine
–Ice Injector
–Hydro Cooler
–Hydro Vac

COLD ROOM

Monitor Temperatures
Product Rotation    

MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE

Electrical Supply
Oil Levels
Ammonia Levels
Field/ Shed/ Cooling Equipment    

PACKAGING/ SUPPLIES

Cartons
RPC’s
Pallets
Material/ Palletizing Supplies
Inventory Control/Delivery Schedule      

SHIPPING

Maintain Inventory
Maintain Rotation
Weight Distribution
Bill of Ladings    

LABOR

Training Programs:
–Quality Control Personnel
–Field Harvest
–Product Receivers
–Packers/Quality Pack
–Forklift Drivers
–Palletizing
–Hydro Cooler/Icing Equipment
–Storage/Rotation
–Inventory Control
–Loading/Weight Distribution
–Food Safety    

ADMINISTRATION

Product Traceability Initiative – Setup
Field Identification Tags
Receiving Tickets
Packing Recap
Inventory Control
Food Safety Preparation for Audit
Shipping Reports
Payroll
Receivables
Payables
Grower Accounting
Daily Cost Analyses
Budgets
Monthly/ Yearly P&L’s    

MARKETING

Marketing/ Sales Staff Structured
Daily Monitoring of Price (Grower Relations)
Daily Shipping/ Sales Price Recaps

To connect with Greg Crossgrove for his agricultural consulting and produce consulting services please visit our contact page.