Harvest

Orchard harvest software with planned vs. actual yield by lot

Know how much fruit you have to sell, and how much you still owe.

Your team logs every harvest entry by lot and crew, even without signal. Arlo matches it against what each buyer takes, day by day and against plan. It also keeps the harvest cost current.

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Arlo harvest cycle with planned against actual weight and cost, and the inventory balance: opening stock, harvest by lot, sales by buyer, and fruit on hand each day

HC-2026-SEM-40

September 28, 2026 – October 4, 2026 Completed
Planned cost
$15,920,000.00
Actual cost
$17,380,400.00
On-hand Inventory
9,640 kg
Planned weight
96,400 kg
Actual weight
108,970 kg
113.0%
Performance
+12,570 kg

Inventory Balance

Current planOriginal plan
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Sep 28
Mon
Sep 29
Tue
Sep 30
Wed
Oct 1
Thu
Oct 2
Fri
Oct 3
Sat
Oct 4
Sun
 Total
Opening (kg) 4,800 kg
plan 4,800 kg · 100.0%
 19,020 kg
plan 19,580 kg · 97.1%
 14,050 kg
plan 17,860 kg · 78.7%
 26,030 kg
plan 19,140 kg · 136.0%
 23,940 kg
plan 10,420 kg · 229.8%
 29,240 kg
plan 15,700 kg · 186.2%
 9,640 kg
plan 3,700 kg · 260.5%
+ Harvest + 18,420 kg
plan 19,280 kg · 95.5%
 + 15,980 kg
plan 19,280 kg · 82.9%
 + 25,860 kg
plan 19,280 kg · 134.1%
 + 29,110 kg
plan 19,280 kg · 151.0%
 + 19,600 kg
plan 19,280 kg · 101.7%
 – – + 108,970 kg
plan 96,400 kg · 113.0%
2B 18,420 kg–14,120 kg16,380 kg8,400 kg–– 57,320 kg
plan 48,200 kg · 118.9%
7C –15,980 kg11,740 kg12,730 kg11,200 kg–– 51,650 kg
plan 48,200 kg · 107.2%
- Sales - 4,200 kg
plan 4,500 kg · 93.3%
 - 20,950 kg
plan 21,000 kg · 99.8%
 - 13,880 kg
plan 18,000 kg · 77.1%
 - 31,200 kg
plan 28,000 kg · 111.4%
 - 14,300 kg
plan 14,000 kg · 102.1%
 - 19,600 kg
plan 12,000 kg · 163.3%
 – - 104,130 kg
plan 97,500 kg · 106.8%
Frutas del Valle S.A.S. / Oranges 4,200 kg9,850 kg6,900 kg21,800 kg–19,600 kg– 62,350 kg
plan 57,500 kg · 108.4%
Citrícola Andina / Oranges –11,100 kg6,980 kg9,400 kg14,300 kg–– 41,780 kg
plan 40,000 kg · 104.5%
= Balance 19,020 kg
plan 19,580 kg · 97.1%
 14,050 kg
plan 17,860 kg · 78.7%
 26,030 kg
plan 19,140 kg · 136.0%
 23,940 kg
plan 10,420 kg · 229.8%
 29,240 kg
plan 15,700 kg · 186.2%
 9,640 kg
plan 3,700 kg · 260.5%
 9,640 kg
plan 3,700 kg · 260.5%
 9,640 kg
plan 3,700 kg · 260.5%

Fruit leaves the estate every week. You learn too late how much there was and what it cost.

Today

  1. Harvest goes into a notebook or arrives on WhatsApp.

    The scale tickets reach Excel days later, if they reach it at all.

  2. Nobody knows how much fruit there is to sell.

    What was harvested and what each buyer took are in separate sheets.

  3. The harvest plan and the scale never get compared.

    Weather changes the harvest, and the plan is still last week's message.

  4. You learn what the harvest cost after you've paid it.

    And harvesting can be close to half the year's cost, 40 to 48% for Mexican lime and berries (FIRA, 2024–2026).

  5. And you promise fruit you don't have, or sell it below cost.

    Without knowing what a kilo costs you, any price looks good.

With Arlo

  1. Every entry has its lot, its crew, and its weight, even without signal.

  2. You see the fruit on hand each day, harvested against sold to each buyer.

  3. You compare planned kg against actual kg, lot by lot, every week.

  4. Arlo keeps harvest cost current against the plan.

  5. You negotiate knowing how much fruit you have and what it cost.

How harvest gets logged and balanced.

  1. Logged in the lot, with or without signal

    The supervisor enters the lot, the crew, and the units, and Arlo works out the net weight. Without signal, the phone saves the entry and uploads it when the connection returns.

    2pending sync

    Harvest Entry Details

    Entry date 10/09/2026 6:40 AM
    Lot 2B
    Harvest group North crew
    Harvest unit 20 kg crate
    Harvest units 46
    Net weight
    kg 920

    Computed automatically from harvest unit capacity and quantity. Edit if a unit was not full.

    Save harvest entry
    What the supervisor logs, offline · Sample data

  2. Or sent on WhatsApp

    They type "harvest" and Arlo asks for the lot, group, unit, and count, then confirms the net weight before saving.

    Arlo online
    Today
    A harvest entry on WhatsApp, condensed

  3. Arlo balances fruit against sales

    Every entry adds to the week's harvest cycle: actual weight against planned, fruit on hand, and what each buyer received.

    HC-2026-SEM-40

    HC-2026-SEM-40 Completed
    Planned weight
    96,400 kg
    Actual weight
    108,970 kg
    113.0%
    Performance
    On-hand Inventory
    9,640 kg
    Summary by client
    Frutas del Valle S.A.S.
    108%
    62,350 kg / 57,500 kg plan
    Citrícola Andina
    104%
    41,780 kg / 40,000 kg plan
    The week's cycle in Arlo · Sample data

Planned against harvested, lot by lot.

For every crop, you compare the plan with what was harvested. For banana and plantain, you also see bagging by ribbon color and a projection of the bunches still to harvest.

Compare the plan with the harvest, lot by lot

Arlo sets the week's harvest plan against actual kg by lot and by harvest group. When weather changes the harvest, you see which lot fell short before you commit fruit to a buyer.

  • Performance against plan by lot, group, and crop type
  • Arlo keeps the original plan even when you re-plan the week
  • An entry on a day with no cycle creates the harvest cycle on its own
arloagro.com / harvest-cycles / plan

HC-2026-SEM-39

September 21, 2026 – September 27, 2026 Completed
Overview Harvest Plan Shipments

Plan vs Actual by Lot

Lot Planned weight Actual weight Performance
L8 22,400 kg 24,180 kg
108%
7C 18,600 kg 17,940 kg
96%
2B 19,200 kg 15,120 kg
79%
14 9,800 kg 9,310 kg
95%
3A 6,400 kg 2,880 kg
45%
24 4,200 kg 1,260 kg
30%

Plan vs Actual by Group

Harvest Group Planned weight Actual weight Performance
North crew 30,000 kg 28,420 kg
95%
East crew 31,400 kg 26,130 kg
83%
South crew 19,200 kg 16,140 kg
84%

For banana and plantain, every ribbon is a cohort

A banana bunch is harvested 10 to 12 weeks after bagging (Acta Agronómica, 2020), and the ribbon marks its week. The bagging grid counts bunches bagged by lot, week, and ribbon color. It subtracts the ones harvested and lost, and shows which are ready to harvest.

  • A warning when a ribbon is reused on the same lot
  • Cohorts flagged for review 4 weeks after their expected harvest
  • Write off with a note, and reopen if it was a mistake
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Bagging

Grid Harvest and projection
Record Bagging Record harvested Bunches Record loss
2026 · 2,651 in field 2025
Bagged
3,810 base 1,707
Harvested
1,125 65.9%
Losses
34 1.7%
Written off
0 0.0%
In field
2,651 32.4%

1 to review

Plantain 2 · W27 · Red · 6 in field

Review and write off
Bagging week
W27
W28
W29
W30
W31
W32
W33
W34
W35
W36
W37
W38
Ribbon
Red
Brown
Black
Orange
Green
Blue
—
White
Yellow
Purple
Pink
Gray
Age
14 wk
13 wk
12 wk
11 wk
10 wk
9 wk
8 wk
7 wk
6 wk
5 wk
4 wk
3 wk
Total
% harvest reached
Plantain · 10 wk to harvest
Plantain 1
2.4 ha
44.8% of farm
 Bagged 148 152 160 155 149 158 162 150 157 161 154 1,706
base 764
Harvested 143 139 121 88 24 · · · · · · 515
67.4%
Losses 5 3 2 1 · 2 · · 1 · · 14
1.4%
In field 10 37 66 125 156 162 150 156 161 154 1,177
31.2%
Plantain 2
3.1 ha
55.2% of farm
 Bagged 186 190 184 195 188 192 197 189 194 191 198 2,104
base 943
Harvested 172 171 140 96 31 · · · · · · 610
64.7%
Losses 8 4 3 2 1 · 2 · · · · 20
1.9%
In field 6 15 41 97 156 192 195 189 194 191 198 1,474
33.4%
Farm total
 Bagged 334 342 344 350 337 350 359 339 351 352 352 3,810
base 1,707
Harvested 315 310 261 184 55 · · · · · · 1,125
65.9%
Losses 13 7 5 3 1 2 2 · 1 · · 34
1.7%
In field 6 25 78 163 281 348 357 339 350 352 352 2,651
32.4%
ready to harvest needs review finished written off −2over-counted week without Bagging

Project bunches and kg for the weeks ahead

From the bunches in the field and each lot's Average Bunch Weight, Arlo projects how many bunches and kg you will harvest over the next 4 weeks. Every Monday, Arlo turns that week's projection into the harvest schedule.

  • Average Bunch Weight by lot and week, or the crop's if none was weighed
  • To harvest, scheduled, and harvested in the same cell
  • Arlo adds harvested bunches to Harvest as kg
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Bunches harvested and to harvest

Lot Harvested, last 52 weeks To harvest, next 4 weeks
W39W40 Total
W41 · this week
5 Oct – 11 Oct
W42
12 Oct – 18 Oct
W43
19 Oct – 25 Oct
W44
26 Oct – 1 Nov
 4-week total
Plantain
Plantain 1
142 Bunches
2,470.8 kg
17.4 kg/bunch
151 Bunches
2,582.1 kg
17.1 kg/bunch
7,204 Bunches
123,188.4 kg
To harvest
238 Bunches
4,093.6 kg
Scheduled
302 Bunches
4,832 kg
Harvested
64 Bunches
1,100.8 kg
17.2 kg/bunch
  • Brown · W2810
    pending since W38
  • Black · W2937
    pending since W39
  • Orange · W3066
    pending since W40
  • Green · W31125
To harvest
156 Bunches
2,683.2 kg
  • Blue · W32156
—
To harvest
162 Bunches
2,786.4 kg
  • White · W34162
556 Bunches
9,563.2 kg
Plantain 2
178 Bunches
2,848 kg
+ weight
186 Bunches
2,976 kg
+ weight
8,931 Bunches
142,896 kg
To harvest
315 Bunches
5,040 kg
Scheduled
403 Bunches
6,448 kg
Harvested
88 Bunches
1,408 kg
+ weight
  • Red · W276
    pending since W37
  • Brown · W2815
    pending since W38
  • Black · W2941
    pending since W39
  • Orange · W3097
    pending since W40
  • Green · W31156
To harvest
192 Bunches
3,072 kg
  • Blue · W32192
—
To harvest
195 Bunches
3,120 kg
  • White · W34195
702 Bunches
11,232 kg
Plantain total
320 Bunches
5,318.8 kg
337 Bunches
5,558.1 kg
16,135 Bunches
266,084.4 kg
To harvest
553 Bunches
9,133.6 kg
Harvested
152 Bunches
2,508.8 kg
To harvest
348 Bunches
5,755.2 kg
 —
To harvest
357 Bunches
5,906.4 kg
1,258 Bunches
20,795.2 kg
Farm total
320 Bunches
5,318.8 kg
337 Bunches
5,558.1 kg
16,135 Bunches
266,084.4 kg
To harvest
553 Bunches
9,133.6 kg
Scheduled
705 Bunches
11,280 kg
Harvested
152 Bunches
2,508.8 kg
To harvest
348 Bunches
5,755.2 kg
 —
To harvest
357 Bunches
5,906.4 kg
1,258 Bunches
20,795.2 kg

Harvest on real estates already runs through Arlo.

Figures as of August 2026, from the estates that record their harvest in Arlo.

Harvest in Arlo

August 2026

of harvest recorded against its lot and crew
6.35Mkg
harvest entries recorded
3,826
shipments recorded
535
estates with their harvest in Arlo
8
of planned kg reached the scale across 57 weekly cycles at Navelinas SAS
90.1%
scale entries over 305 harvest days on a single estate
2,875

The rest of the estate, in the same record.

What your team records in any module goes into the lot's record and adds to its cost per kilo and margin.

See how close your harvest plan lands to the scale.

In 20 minutes we go over how you plan the week, how you record kilos by lot, and how you balance fruit with your buyers, and tell you straight whether Arlo fits.

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Frequently asked questions

How do you track harvest yield by block in an orchard or grove?
By recording every harvest entry against its lot. Each lot carries its area, so Arlo works out kg per hectare or acre for every lot in the cost center report, next to its cost per kilo and average price per kilo.
How do you schedule citrus or avocado harvest by block and crew?
In a weekly harvest cycle. You schedule kg by lot, harvest group, and day, and Arlo sets every entry that reaches the scale against that plan. The cycle keeps the original plan even when you re-plan the week.
How do you compare planned vs. actual harvest?
With the harvest cycle. Arlo puts scheduled kg against the kg that arrived, by lot, group, and crop type, and shows performance against plan while the week is still open.
How do you calculate harvest cost per acre and per pound?
Arlo keeps each harvest cycle's planned and actual cost and adds it to the lot, next to labor and supplies. With the same lot's remisiones it works out the cost per kilo or pound and each lot's margin.
How do banana growers project bunches from bagging ribbon colors?
With bagging cohorts. A cohort is the bunches bagged on one lot, in one week, with one ribbon color. Arlo subtracts the ones harvested and lost, and projects the bunches still in the field into their expected harvest week, with kg at the lot's Average Bunch Weight. It applies to banana and plantain.
Can crews log harvest without cell signal?
Yes. Arlo saves harvest entries on the phone without a connection and syncs them when signal returns. Until then, the list shows how many entries are pending sync.
How do you reconcile harvested fruit with what each buyer received?
With the cycle's inventory balance: opening stock, plus harvest by lot, minus sales to each buyer, day by day and against plan. It tells you how much fruit you have on hand or how much you still need to deliver.
Does it work for grain harvest?
No. Arlo is built for perennial crops harvested in cycles: citrus, avocado, oil palm, banana and plantain, coffee, cacao, berries, and orchard fruit. Grain and storage operations have tools built for them.