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Pultneyville, NY — May 2026 — Agri‑Trak, the grower‑built farm management platform trusted by specialty crop operations nationwide, today announced the launch of ChemTrak, a next‑generation chemical application tracking and compliance system designed to simplify spray records, reduce audit stress, and help growers stay ahead of regulatory requirements.

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ChemTrak, available now, expands Agri‑Trak’s mission to deliver practical, farmer‑first software that strengthens operational accuracy and supports long‑term farm sustainability.

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ChemTrak replaces paper logs, binders, and spreadsheets with a streamlined digital workflow that captures every spray application in real time. The platform centralizes all required chemical records, organizes them by block and crop, and generates clean, exportable reports for audits, inspections, and food safety programs.

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“Growers are under more pressure than ever to document every detail of their chemical applications,” said Jamie Sonneville, Founder of Agri‑Trak. “ChemTrak was built to take that burden off their shoulders. It’s fast, accurate, and designed by people who understand what it means to run a farm.”

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ChemTrak includes:

• Digital Spray Logs — Capture applications by block, applicator, REI/PHI, weather, and product details.  

• Automated Compliance Reports — Generate audit‑ready documentation in seconds.  

• Chemical Product Library — Track restricted‑use products, rates, and application history.  

• Worker Protection Standard Support — Manage required postings and re‑entry intervals.  

• Mobile‑Friendly Design — Enter spray records from the field, shop, or office.  

• Seamless Agri‑Trak Integration — Extend labor, payroll, and harvest data into a unified farm management system.

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These features make ChemTrak one of the most accessible and grower‑friendly chemical compliance tools available to specialty crop farms.

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The launch of ChemTrak reinforces the company’s commitment to building practical, reliable tools that respect growers’ time and support the next generation of farm leadership.

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For more information and to schedule a demo, visit https://chem-trak.com.

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About Agri‑Trak

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Agri-Trak is a farm management software platform built for specialty crop growers. Founded on a family orchard, Agri-Trak provides practical digital tools for labor management, payroll, harvest tracking, and chemical application compliance. The company’s mission is to help growers operate more efficiently, stay compliant, and preserve the legacy of family farming for generations to come. Learn more at www.agritrak.com.

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Agri‑Trak Media  

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H-2A employers spend most of their compliance attention on wages, hours, and contract terms. Housing inspections often get treated as a once-a-season administrative chore.

Here's what the checklist needs to actually contain.

The categories that need their own sections

A defensible H-2A housing checklist has eight distinct sections, each with its own line items, each requiring a status check rather than a single overall pass.

The first is structural condition. Roof, walls, windows, doors. The second is bed and sleeping arrangements. The third is plumbing and water. The fourth is cooking and food storage. The fifth is electrical. The sixth is fire safety. The seventh is heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. The eighth is the surrounding site.

A checklist that lumps these into a single overall pass-fail is not a defensible record.

What "status" means in practice

Every line item on the checklist needs a status that's more specific than "pass" or "fail." The four states that matter are: passes, passes with note, requires action, and not applicable.

"Passes with note" is the one that matters most. It records items that are currently okay but need attention soon. When the same "passes with note" appears across two consecutive inspections, the system should flag it as something that needs an actual action.

The frequency question

Most H-2A regulations require an initial pre-occupancy inspection. The farms that do best in audits run a brief weekly walk-through during occupancy, and a more thorough monthly inspection. This produces a record that shows continuous attention.

The sign-off that nobody includes

A checklist without a signed acknowledgement of completion is incomplete. Every inspection should be signed off by the person who performed it, with their name printed and their role recorded.

The connection to the rest of the H-2A program

Housing isn't isolated from the rest of your H-2A program. The same inspector looking at your housing records is also looking at your wage records, your hour records, your training records, and your worker complaint logs.

What to do this week

Pick a date during the last occupancy period. Try to produce a complete record of the housing inspection performed closest to that date — the form, the line items, the status of each, the signature, and any corrective actions.

If you can produce all of that in fifteen minutes, you're in good shape.

Agri-Trak's H-2A module includes templated housing checklists, configurable inspection frequencies, status-based line items, signed corrective actions, and a unified record across housing, wages, hours, and worker complaints.

If you ask most specialty-crop farm owners what their cost-per-bin is, they can usually tell you a number. It's a confident number, often quoted to the cent. It's also, in almost every case, wrong in a way that's costing them real money.

The problem isn't the math. The problem is the level of aggregation.

The number most farms have

The standard calculation is straightforward: take your total labor cost for the harvest, divide by total bins produced. If you harvested 8,200 bins and your harvest labor was $312,000, your cost per bin is $38.05. That number tells you whether your harvest was profitable in aggregate. It tells you almost nothing useful about how to make next year better.

Why aggregation lies

Three things get hidden in a farm-wide average. The first is variance between blocks. Block 7 might be producing at $26 per bin. Block 12 might be producing at $58 per bin. Your average says $38, which describes neither. The second is variance between crews. Two crews working the same crop often produce at meaningfully different cost-per-bin levels. The third is variance over the season. Early-harvest cost per bin tends to be higher, peak drops, late climbs again.

The numbers worth tracking

Three cuts of the data give you almost everything you need: cost per bin by block (refreshed weekly), cost per bin by crew (refreshed weekly), and cost per bin by week across the whole season.

If you have these three cuts, you have what you need to actually manage the harvest. If you don't, you have a single number that makes you feel like you know what's happening when you don't.

Why most farms can't get there from paper

The blocker isn't the math. The blocker is that paper time records don't carry the dimensions you need. A typical paper time sheet records the worker's name, the date, the hours worked. It doesn't record which block was being worked, which crew was assigned, or what the bin count was.

The shift to digital labor tracking is what makes this possible — not because the digital system does fancier math, but because it captures the dimensions at the moment the work happens.

A useful weekly habit

Friday afternoon or Monday morning, pull the report for the week. Three numbers: the blocks where cost per bin was highest, the crews where cost per bin was highest, and any week-over-week change of more than fifteen percent. Look at each one and ask why.

The bigger point

Almost every important number on a specialty-crop farm is hiding behind an aggregate that obscures the variance you'd actually want to manage. The farms that consistently outperform are the ones that have figured out how to look at the granular numbers without it taking a week of office work to produce them.

Agri-Trak produces cost-per-bin reporting by block, by crew, and by week as a standard part of the labor module.