Pre-cursors of the Delytics® Crop Quality Advisor have been commercially operated by Zespri and their key clearance laboratories and suppliers since 2007. These systems have helped Zespri predict the right harvest colour, taste and time for their Gold kiwifruit, extend the shelf life through post-harvest improvements.
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In September 2011 Harvest Fresh Fruits Pty Ltd (previously trading as Oolloo Farm Management) adopted a precursor of the Delytics® Crop Quality Advisor to optimise the production of B74 mangoes, marketed under the Calypso® brand name in Australia. This system is providing ongoing benefits for Australian mangoes.
Delytics added huge value to our industry by transforming the raw monitoring data into easy-to-read graphics that highlighted immaturity over a four-month period of harvest. Their analytical skills gave us the tangible evidence we’d been looking for, for 10
years, to help us decide the evidence-based minimum standards needed for growers to harvest their fruit at the optimum maturity. We want our grapes to provide a consistently good eating experience, throughout the whole season.
The increased consumer demand already achieved by this project supports previous research showing that consumers will buy more fruit when they are confident it will taste good.
Jeff Scott
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Table Grape Association Inc.
The Delytics team’s ability to analyse complex data has provided a simple way for Zespri to monitor the performance of the vessels they use to ship their export kiwifruit.
Mark Loeffen added huge value to a large meat research project I led. It was a very complex multi-disciplinary project with lots of moving parts, involving both very applied and theoretical scientists The significant technical expertise, project management support and coaching Mark provided over the full five years of the project helped us deliver our project objectives. Mark is very experienced in managing R&D projects and is very good at bringing in a cross-pollination of ideas between sectors. Working with Mark helped me grow my skills as a programme leader and develop robust systems and work plans to meet the needs of stakeholders and ensure good on-time delivery within budget. Mark is really good to work with.
Cameron Craigie PhD
Strategy Lead – Next Generation Consumer Products
Lincoln Research Centre
AgResearch Ltd
Christchurch, New Zealand
Mark Loeffen assisted Meat and Livestock Australia for 15 years in three main areas:
Dr Lewis Atkinson
Manager Knowledge & Program Improvement,
Meat and Livestock Australia Ltd
Mark Loeffen researched and prepared a technical review (white paper) for us to document the techniques that had been tested for shearing the wool of live lambs. Our ultimate objective, which we have since achieved, was to improve animal welfare by developing a new line shearing process to remove the wool from the animals after they are slaughtered. Mark's report provided a solid starting point to help us develop the new process by showing us what had already been done and what had not been done. We engaged Mark to carry out the technical review as he was a recognised world expert in this field. We found him to be very knowledgeable and a very good person to work with. If he says he will do something he will do it and you know he will always perform a very good job.
Magnus Wahlgren
Manager Technical Development,
Nortura – Produksjon, Oslo, Norway
Mark Loeffen added huge value to a large meat research project I led. It was a very complex multi-disciplinary project with lots of moving parts, involving both very applied and theoretical scientists The significant technical expertise, project management support and coaching Mark provided over the full five years of the project helped us deliver our project objectives. Mark is very experienced in managing R&D projects and is very good at bringing in a cross-pollination of ideas between sectors. Working with Mark helped me grow my skills as a programme leader and develop robust systems and work plans to meet the needs of stakeholders and ensure good on-time delivery within budget. Mark is really good to work with.
Cameron Craigie PhD
Strategy Lead – Next Generation Consumer Products
Lincoln Research Centre
AgResearch Ltd
Christchurch, New Zealand
Delytics project managed the three-year strategic levy investment project Table Grapes Supply Chain Quality 2017-2020 (TG17002), which was part of the Hort Innovation Table Grape Fund. They were excellent at maintaining a relationship with us as a funding body and demonstrated strong stakeholder engagement. Their very adaptive and inclusive approach resulted in a quality outcome, and helped industry pivot their thinking. Their work certainly made a difference and was very well received.
Dr Anthony Kachenko
General Manager, Data and Extension
Horticulture Innovation Australia Ltd
Consumer acceptability hit a five-year high for Australian table grapes with increased demand and prices - just one year after Delytics helped the industry put new maturity standards in place. Nielsen data showed an average 10.1% increase in volume over the 2019/20 season and an associated 5% increase in price. Retail monitoring over the same time period recorded the highest consumer acceptability in five years with an overall consumer acceptability of 79%. This was a 20 percentage point increase from the 2016/17 season, the year before the project started.
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