This labor tracking program uses a scanning device to read a worker’s bar coded identification. Technology has brought sophisticated pest management computer models, weather stations, irrigation scheduling, sprayers with sensors, and more to the field. But one of the last holdouts is tracking labor, with many growers still hand-entering timesheets or punch card data into payroll accounting programs. “It’s amazing to me that everyone tracks inventory, but so few growers track labor,” said Paul Geisterfer, representative of Agricultural Data Systems, one of the pioneering companies that developed an agricultural labor tracking program more than 20 years ago. Growers always know […]