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January 2015 Wines&Vines 55 grapegrowing crease the ease of setup. Fairport sports a pocket PAM, which can offer the timesavings of mobile data input. Their mapping tool is useful for both quick data entry and reading reports. Fairport has designed PAM a tool for centralizing data in one package so new staff members are quickly up to speed with all his- torical data in one space. The PAM system has a modular set up so you can buy what you need now and upgrade later, whether it is the mapping function, the Farmstar Precision farming or Pocket PAM for iPad/Android. The Fairport program seems to be quite complete, with just about any feature that you may need for every aspect of a vine- yard. The precision ag tools allow users to produce visual representations of the data in many different formats. Treasury Wine Estates—iCropTrak Many of you may know Treasury Wine Estates as a large Austra- lian wine company. They em- barked on a program to get their farmers on board with a simple, centralized, iPad-based software system for vineyard informa- tion. You don't need WiFi in order to use this software. It has grown into its own stand-alone product and has expanded into areas including social media, where its mapping functions can be utilized. In this program, one can be ready for soil sampling anytime, anywhere, with iCrop- Trak Soil. iCropTrak Soil users can to create grower, farm, field, zones and sample points that can be layered with other raster and vector data. The program allows the grower to quickly and easily take samples using grid, zone and randomization parameters to get accurate data and send the results through Dropbox and/or email. iCroptrak also ensures sampling consis- tency season after season. iCropTrak users can insert a field map from an NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) or other scouting imagery, then enter harvest, planting, ditching and tiling data to use iCropTrak Soil. The software allows users to make new layers to include lines, points and boundaries/zones to improve vineyard pro- cesses and understanding. The next level of the program is the "field management" module, which includes iCrop- Trak Scout; an upgrade to the "total farm man- agement" level accesses iCropTrak Complete. The program comes in three versions: one just for soil management, one for managing fields and, finally, one for the entire farm. Trimble Navigation Viticulture and Permanent Crop Solutions Trimble Navigation is a large company special- izing in GPS services. It has modules and map- ping tools you can purchase and integrate into your current software systems. Trimble states, "Your challenge is to produce a high-quality wine or other value-added crop while increas- ing profits, reducing costs and respecting the environment." To that end, they have created precision viticulture and permanent crop solu- tions to help you identify in-field variability, improve vineyard and orchard management and create a sustainable operation. Premiere Viticultural Service Premiere Viticultural is the one program that was designed to concentrate on viticulture from the ground up. That fact is reflected in the language used to describe operations and approach. You won't find a lot of AgCode farmerese here. The vineyard software from Premiere Viti- cultural Service includes three modules: Pre- miereData, PremierDecision and PremiereVision. The data module, called PremiereData, begins the program organiza- tion. The next step, the Pre- mierDecision module, is where users begin the implementa- tion and management of the data by making data-based decisions. All this is finally brought together in the Pre- miereVision Module, which encapsulates users' long-term vineyard goals. The Premiere Viticultural Service philosophy states, "From the soil and the vines to the harvest and the finished wine: each step matters." They don't want you to have to start over again, so the program helps you take advantage of ViNEyARD MANAgEMENT SOFTWARE SuPPliERS Company Website Advanced Management Systems amssoftware.com Agcode agcode.com Camalie Networks camalienetworks.com CDMS cdmsadvisor.com Cogent3D gisroam.com Cyret cyret.com Davis Instruments davisnet.com Fairport Farm Software - PAM Ultravit fairport.com Grow Smarter grow-smarter.com IOS, Inc. iosincorporated.com IVIS Software - Innovative Vinology Information Systems ivissoftware.com Mapshots, Inc. mapshots.com Neal Carter & Associates, Ltd. farmsolutions.net Nuance Winery Supplies nuancetrade.com Orange Enterprises orangesoftware.com Orion Wine Software orionwinesoftware.com Premiere Viticultural Services premierevit.com Spectrum Technologies, Inc. specmeters.com SureHarvest, Inc. sureharvest.com Treasury Wine Estates icroptrak.com Trimble Navigation trimble.com/agriculture/viticulture Vineaccess vineaccess.com Wine Management Systems winemanagementsystems.com Winemakers Database wmdb.com Treasury Wine estates developed the iCropTrak iPad-based system. for more information about the suppliers listed above, visit winesandvines.com/buyersguide or see Wines & Vines' 2015 buyer's guide.