LetsGrow online services have been used by many satisfied customers. Vegetable, ornamental and pot plant growers - they all count amongst our customer base. On these pages, you can read some reactions by our customers, including growers, consultants and others.
"It doesn't matter what climate computer you have, LetsGrow works."
"For me, LetsGrow is mainly important as an excellent instrument to plan production. It's not like it can be used for 100% of it, but the better your own input, the better the system can work. LetsGrow themselves leave nothing to be desired themselves. We also compare crops inside our excursion group, and it only really gets interesting if everyone inputs their own data daily. This can be done automatically, and I don't see any limits there. I also find it very handy that it doesn't matter what climate computer you are using - be it Priva, Hortimax or Hoogendoorn. In short: crop data relevant to you can be compared, and you can plan your production much better - that sums up LetsGrow for me!"
Dick Breugem, D.J. Breugem tomatoes, Bleiswijk
"It's like looking over my neighbour's shoulder."
"I am a fan of using LetsGrow myself. I have a look at the registration data several times a week myself. I belong to an excursion group, the Avalance group, which used to send data to each other by fax or e-mail in the past. We now do this via LetsGrow. I am really positive about this. It's like looking over your neighbour's shoulder, and you can learn a lot from this. This is simply a really good and easy-to-use registration program, and in the end, measuring still means knowledge!"
Maurice de Ruijt, Van den Berg Roses, Delfgauw
"An unprecedented, powerful tool for research and support in practice trials."
I am involved just about every day with analysing these data for research myself, but also supporting growers who put new insights into practice. This enables me to quickly and easily “look over their shoulders” at the climate history in their greenhouses once they give me viewing rights for their data. I can just as easily discuss the results of trials with other researchers of WUR Glastuinbouw and other institutes, based on graphs which we can look at simultaneously, but each of us on our own PC. This for instance also applies to BCO staff or sounding board groups often involved in practice trials.
From my own experience, I can therefore say that LetsGrow is really an unprecedented, powerful tool for modern types of research and development, where research and practice trials go hand in hand and several parties must be able to view source data and results at the same time.
Ir. Jan Voogt, Senior Researcher at Hoogendoorn Growth Management
Your crops become manageable
"Sites are increasingly better equipped, and growers have a growing number of all sorts of data available to them. Thanks to LetsGrow, it is possible to do something with all these data, as you can now compare them with others. Using this new information, you can learn more about growing, so that you can advance step by step,” says DLV consultant Edwin van der Knaap.
Van der Knaap has a lot of praise for the user-friendliness of this system. “There is now a universal way of presentation, no matter what brand of computer a site is running. This way, key data from different sites can be compared with each other, and that makes it all very clear.”
Rose growers, who have been using LetsGrow to register data for years, can use the QMS model linked to LetsGrow to learn a lot about the relationship between temperature, light and growth. Says van der Knaap: “We can use LetsGrow to record the temperature every five minutes and link this to the growth. We determine the temperature sum and the calculated production every day. We also record the amount of light in the greenhouse. This helps us to a better understanding of what temperature and light mean for the plant quantitatively. Over time, we will be able to use that sort of understanding to control the growing process, and enter into a cycle of improvement. Crops have become manageable.”
This rose grower believes that comparisons via the Internet are the future. He also points out: “We should make sure that no different systems are launched in the market. This sector is too small for several platforms. LetsGrow is well on its way, and in my opinion, it should become the standard.”
Edwin van der Knaap, Consultant at DLV Plant BV