Impact
Industry surveys show where waste lives. On a project, we measure your water, chemistry, medicine, and labor against a baseline you can see.
The figures below come from USDA, FDA, and the US Beekeeping Survey. They describe the industry picture we start from. On your project, we measure against your own baseline.
Farms applied 81 million acre-feet of irrigation water across 53.1 million acres in 2023. Irrigation accounts for about 47% of the nation’s freshwater withdrawals. Scheduling by calendar, not by soil and crop stage, is how millions of gallons leave the field without feeding a plant.
USDA NASS Irrigation and Water Management Survey 2023; USDA ERS / USGS
USDA finds precision-agriculture adoption rises sharply with farm size. Variable-rate and sensing tools are common on large crop farms and rare on small ones. Orchards and diversified acreage get painted with a block-wide spray when a tree-level map would have been enough.
Wearable livestock technology was used on 1% of small farms and 12% of large-scale livestock farms in 2023. Sales of medically important antimicrobials for food-producing animals rose 16% in 2024 versus 2023. Earlier illness detection is how you treat the animal that needs it — and leave the rest alone.
USDA ERS, America’s Farms and Ranches at a Glance, 2024; FDA CVM antimicrobial sales 2024
US beekeepers lost an estimated 40.2% of managed colonies in winter 2024–25 — the highest rate in the national survey’s history — and 30.3% in 2025–26. Beekeepers have long treated about 20% winter loss as acceptable. That gap is one of the problems we build for.
