Improve Employee Relations with Farm Communication Software

Hannah, HR manager at Milbrandt standing in front of some winemaking tanks

Take control of your farm's communication

Increase farm productivity, reduce risk, and save money

Communicating everything from changes in the work schedule (reduce paid non-productive time), to pesticide re-entry timelines (reduce safety/compliance risk), to important company updates directly to farmworker's phones.

One-way announcements and two-way chat

Talk to everyone or custom groups at once to quickly get your message out. If a one-on-one conversation is more appropriate, start a chat with an indiviual employee.

Reliably reach employees

Messages are intelligently sent to workers via the channel that works best for them including:

  • Text message

  • WhatsApp

  • Email

Speak in the language that works for your farm employees

Harvust software automatically translates every message and creates an audio file for workers who prefer to hear their message in their language. And for chat, their replies are translated into your preferred language.

And let Harvust take care of the record keeping

Harvust automatically creates and organizes transcripts of each message and chat so you can defend against any compliance visit, or legal case.

See how Harvust can help you engage your employees to be more productive and save you time

It was great being able to find Harvust during the COVID-19 outbreak. Harvust is user friendly, it was easy to communicate with the employees . . . Thanks to Harvust we were able to be compliant and keep open communication with all the employees.
Zuri Martinez, Top en Twel, Grandview, WA

Automate safety and morale communications

Automated high heat & smoke alerts direct to employees

Stay in compliance with new heat and wildfire smoke rules with one click. Harvust will continuously monitor the temperature & AQI at each of your farm locations, and send translated text message alerts to each employee's phone when it crosses each threshold.

Follows up with supervisors

In addition to going direct to each employee, our automatic heat and smoke alerts will send special messages to each of your managers reminding them of their compliance duties.

Automate employee engagement

One click to turn on 100% automatic employee relations messaging to foster loyalty and teamwork. Including

  • Employee birthdays
  • Bicultural holiday greetings
How it works
01
Select who you want to communicate with

From the office to the field and everywhere in between, Harvust is building stronger relationships between you and your employees.

02
Send them a message

Text messages delivered straight to their phone with audio translations. Have more to say? Send attachments and GPS map locations to really get the message across.

03
Be confident in your communication

Harvust will confirm delivery with all of your employees and alert you when there is a problem.

Features
Send one way messages to your farm crews
Two way & anonymous chat
Automated heat & smoke alerts
Automated employee morale messages
Auto or manual Spanish/English translations
Automatic voice translations
PDF attachments
Geo-location pin drop
Phone status report
Learn about onboarding with Harvust
Learn about improving safety with Harvust

Getting started with Harvust is easy

Traditionally, implementing a new software system can be a long, and arduous process. Harvust is different, we create a personalized setup plan for each new grower so you can start seeing value as soon as possible. Below is an overview of what a typical Harvust deployment looks like.

Day 1

Fill out our new customer questionnaire, schedule integrations meeting

Our HR specialist, Becca, will send you an email asking in-the-weeds questions about your farm so we can set up your new account just right. She'll also have you send us your hiring packet and any other onboarding documents. Finally you'll schedule a video call to go over any integration needs.

Day 2-3

HR integrations meeting

You'll meet with our co-owner, James, to go over how Harvust will work with your existing HR systems like payroll, and timetracking. Together we'll decide on the needed exports and imports for your various vendors. While we have most ag software integrations already working, in our experience you'll need small customizations, those will be identified in this meeting too. Finally, we'll map out the workflow you and your staff will practice to use these integrations effectively. This will take a couple iterations to get right, but we'll be there every step of the way!

Day 4-5

Onboarding documents review

While we were planning your integrations, Becca will have digitized your onboarding documents so they work on Harvust. She will send you a video going over each document; if anything looks off you can get back to her and she'll make the corrections.

Day 7

Training

While Harvust is simple and easy to use, that doesn't mean we'll leave you to fend for yourself. You will get a one-on-one training and coaching session with Becca that will make you the Harvust expert for your company. And of course, if you or your staff ever need more help, we're happy to provide follow-ups.

Day 8

You're ready!

You're trained, your employees have been loaded into your account, and your documents are ready to go. Most new growers immediately start getting value by turning on our automations, testing out with their team, and gradually rolling out Harvust to the entire farm.

FAQs about working with Harvust

What is the process for customer feedback and implementation of requested features?

While we can't promise to build everything you ask for, we do promise to listen to any feedback and feature requests you might have. The more growers who ask for something the more likely it is we'll build it, we don't just listen to our biggest customers.

Are there any new features in development?

Yes, there always are! While we don't share our roadmap publicly, if you're looking for a feature that has to do with ag labor compliance, there's a good chance it is already in the plan. If there is a specific capability you are looking for get in touch with us.

Are there any plans to increase or change the current pricing structure?

No, and you can see our current pricing here. We have found usage-based billing, invoiced at the end of the billing period, to be the fairest way to charge for our services. We don't do contracts, and any pricing changes will be communicated far in advance. Additionally, we only raise prices if we believe we have also raised the value we are bringing to you via new features and capabilities. The only time we've changed our pricing was in 2023. Not a single customer stopped using Harvust because of the price change. We try to be fair.

See how Harvust can help you engage your employees to be more productive and save you time