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Cloud software that computes optimal machine routes and fleet strategies for farm operations, reducing overlap, fuel, inputs, costs and labour while enabling supervised autonomy.
About
Verge Ag develops farm software that plans machine routes and tests equipment options. The purpose is to help growers cut fuel use, labour, and machinery wear while moving toward autonomous field work. Path Planner and Equipment Explorer already guide machinery on over 24 million acres worldwide. The tools plug into standard autosteer systems and new robotic carts alike, giving farms a clear, practical way to run every pass more efficiently.
Key Benefits
- Faster turns, fewer passes – Route optimisation drops machine travel distance, time to complete operations by up to 40 %, lifting daily throughput without adding hardware.
- Robot-ready guidance – Exports ISOXML, Shapefile and simple API calls that self-propelled harvest (or seeding or spraying) platforms, follow-me carts and robotic arms can follow straight out of the box.
- Dynamic replanning – When a cart bin fills or weather windows shift, new routes generate in seconds, keeping crews productive during tight harvest windows.
- Batch planning – A tablet or phone can be used to batch plan operations and lets a single supervisor to manage operations, freeing scarce labour for higher-value tasks.
- Right-sized fleets – Equipment Explorer simulates different cart-to-harvester ratios and labour mixes, cutting idle time and over-capitalisation.
- Lower operating costs – Less engine idle time, shorter drives, and reduced distance mean fuel, wear and labour bills are reduced.
- Root-zone protection – Optimised paths spread wheel traffic or lock into fixed lanes, minimising compaction around perennial crop roots.
- Whole-season utility – Same route engine plans pruning, spraying, thinning and harvest passes, so one system covers every operation instead of point solutions. This maintains a seasonal plan with dependent operations.
Applications
- Primary: mid- to large-scale horticulture enterprises—orchards, vineyards, nut groves, and high-value vegetable operations—running multiple machines per block and battling labour pinch points at harvest and pruning. Ideal users already rely on RTK guidance or are trialling autonomous carts and follow-me robots.
- Secondary: broadacre grain and oilseed growers managing 1,000 ha or more who want the same route optimisation for seeding, spraying, and harvest logistics. This cohort proves out cross-commodity scale, de-risks R&D, and expands total addressable acres for hardware partners.
- Tertiary: service providers and regional equipment dealers that resell guidance kits, robotic platforms, or agronomy services and need a software layer to orchestrate mixed fleets.