Crop steering transforms growing cannabis or carrots from an art to a science. This practice is used to increase yields by indoor growers. It involves controlling three variables: light and climate, and irrigation. Growers can make taller plants, produce larger flowers, and have shorter grow times if they do the right things.
Today, Trym announced that it has added crop steering analytics to its software product for seed-to-sale. Trym now offers growers a complete package that tracks cannabis plants from seed to harvest and maintains Metrc compliance. It does all this while also providing detailed information about its growth via crop steering.
Third-party hardware is used to control Trym's crop steering functions. Trolmaster and Growlink offer APIs that allow Trym to access data about the environment. Traditional crop steering products require that growers use their own hardware.
Karen Mayberry, co-founder of Trym and CMO, said that in addition to crop steering's recent market attention, there is a need for software that can provide crop steering capabilities along with compliance and operational management tools. Although crop-steering software has been attempted by cultivators to analyze the data required for crop steering, it is not fully functional.
The Tryms product was created to provide commercial cannabis growers with deep insight into their operations. It aims to replace multiple spreadsheet tracking tools and apps that cultivators use. In 2018, the company was founded and raised $3.1 million in a seed round for 2020.
