Weekly field report
What we saw in each block, what we’re watching and what happens next.
Block 7 · hull split under way · mites light · trap counts climbing.
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Full-service agronomy, all season long.
PCA and CCA management for one published rate. Your agronomist is in your blocks every week in season, builds your program to the numbers, plans and budgets it with you up front, and puts every decision in writing.
What “full service” means here.
Licensed PCAs and Certified Crop Advisers working from the same visits, the same data and the same plan.
- Pest management
- Scouting and monitoring all season. Recommendations on thresholds and timing, never on what’s in stock, with the why, the rate, the timing and the cost.
- Nutrition
- Soil, tissue and harvest sampling on a calendar, and a program built to the results. Nitrogen management included.
- Plans and budgets up front
- What we’re planning, what it costs and when, before the season starts. When conditions change, the plan changes with them, and you see it.
- Reporting
- Every visit ends in writing, block by block. See the formats.
- Season review
- After harvest: what we did, what it cost and what we’d change next year.
- The paperwork
- Written recommendations and the records that go with them, kept the way the regulations expect.
A season, stage by stage.
An example program for tree nuts. Other crops run the same loop on their own calendar, and every block gets its own plan.
Your first season with us. No long onboarding. We walk your ground, pull samples and your records so we start from your numbers, then put the program and the budget in writing before you spend. The reports start with the first visit.
Sample reports.
What lands in your inbox: plain English, block by block, kept year after year and ready to forward to a partner, a landlord or a lender.
Lab results, flagged
Every number marked low, OK or high against the target for your crop and timing.
Leaf tissue: four low, one high, the rest in range.
See the full sampleRecommendations with the cost
The why, the rate, the timing and the cost per acre, before anything is ordered.
Three products, rates and timing laid out. About $110 per acre in this sample.
See the full samplePlan and budget
The season laid out before you spend, then updated as it changes.
Eight stages from post-harvest to harvest, costed per acre before the season starts.
See the full sampleSeason review
What we did, what it cost and what we’d change, block by block.
Three blocks side by side: what was done, the cost per acre and one change for next year.
See the full sampleAnonymized from real reports: names, places and exact figures are changed, and every cost is a sample. See all five in full.
Behind it: automated pest monitoring, our own scouting app, lab results turned into flagged reports, and weather and degree-day models behind every timing call. Nothing to install.
Tree nuts first. Plenty more besides.
The approach doesn’t change from crop to crop. The calendar does. We work mainly in Stanislaus, Merced and San Joaquin counties, with growers in Fresno and Sacramento counties too.
- Almonds, walnuts and pistachios
- The heart of what we do, from dormant planning to the post-harvest work that sets up next year.
- Cherries, peaches and other tree fruit
- Programs built around bloom, fruit set and finish, with pest monitoring through the season.
- Grapes
- Nutrition and pest programs built to the vineyard’s own numbers, from budbreak through harvest.
- Forage, field and row crops
- Often in rotation with the orchards we already look after, so the whole ranch runs on one plan.
The only way we win is if you stay.
Our agronomists are paid on service, never on product. No product commissions. No quotas. No B.S.
Advice is never free. When it doesn’t come with a bill, it comes inside the product price. You pay us for the agronomy, so we don’t have to bury it in the price of your inputs.
Every farm needs inputs, and a good recommendation needs real prices behind it. Ours come priced from any supplier, so fair pricing is part of the service, not extra work for you. Buy wherever you like; the recommendation doesn’t change.
$52.50per acre, per year
Full-service PCA and CCA management. One published rate, same for everyone. No tiers, no add-ons to discover later.
- Pay annually, quarterly or monthly.
- Annual agreement. Cancel at renewal.
- Inputs are separate, and optional.
| Question | Retail PCA | Independent consultant | Crop Syndicate |
|---|---|---|---|
| How the advisor is paid | Usually tied to product sold | Consulting fee | Service fee. Never product. |
| Who benefits when you buy more? | Usually the seller. | Nobody. The pricing lands on you. | Nobody. We’re paid for the advice, so the advice stays straight. |
| What advice costs you | Built into the product price | A separate bill | One published rate per acre |
| How pricing works | Usually from the company selling the inputs | Usually left to you | Fair prices from any supplier, built into every rec |
| Where you buy | Usually through them | On your own | Through us or anywhere. The rec doesn’t change. |
Questions growers ask.
Straight answers, before you ever call.
Do I have to buy my inputs from you?
No. Plenty of our growers do, because the pricing is fair and there’s nothing extra to chase. You don’t have to, and the recommendation is the same either way.
I like my PCA. Can I just buy inputs?
Yes. Send us the rec, whoever wrote it, and we’ll price it. See Inputs.
Who will I actually work with?
Your own agronomist, who knows your ground, with the rest of our team behind them. Meet the team.
How do we start?
With a field walk on your ground. What your first season looks like.
Walk a field with us.
We come out to your ground and see what’s going on. Maybe we pull a sample, maybe we go through last season’s records. Then you get a proposal in writing. No obligation.
Got it, thanks.
Here’s what happens next:
- A person reads it. Not a bot, not a sales queue.
- We price it, shopping it across suppliers.
- We reach out the way you told us.
We will get back to you. Have the rec in an email? Send it to hello@syndicate.ag.
Need us sooner? Call 209-899-1612A person on our team will read what you sent.
If it looks like a fit for our growers, we will be in touch. Thank you for reaching out.
Here’s what happens next:
- A person reads it. Not a bot, not a sales queue.
- We reach out the way you told us, around the time you prefer.
- We set a time to walk your ground, or send what you asked for. No obligation.
We will get back to you. If you have last season’s records handy, bring them.
Need us sooner? Call 209-899-1612Got it, thanks.
Here’s what happens next:
- A person reads it. Not a bot, not a sales queue.
- We reach out the way you told us, around the time you prefer.
- We set a time to walk your ground, or send what you asked for. No obligation.
We will get back to you. If you have last season’s records handy, bring them.
Need us sooner? Call 209-899-1612