Overview

Less than 2 percent of American families live on farms in this country today. This small number of people is responsible for feeding the rest of the country and would be unable to accomplish that feat without the best that technology has to offer. Here at Titan Farms we recognize the importance of technology and strive to use it to benefit America’s consumers and to protect our precious natural resources.

Water Resource Management
Our farm is stretches over about 15 square miles of Edgefield, Saluda and Aiken Counties. This makes it difficult to manage resources from one point. Through the use of a custom web based irrigation system and radio signals, we are able to control water distribution to all parts of our farm from one location.

The use of computers also allows for precise irrigation and accurate record keeping providing our crops just the right amount of water and nutrients to insure optimum growth while controlling run-off and maximizing water resources. The automated part of this system allows us to irrigate when our crops need it the most without the constraints of labor and management hours. This high tech system is similar in many ways to an automated yard sprinkler system except on a much larger scale. This system also has a means of communicating back to us with a bird’s eye view of the entire farm and alerts of problems as they arise.

Use of weather stations and soil moisture probes allows for further monitoring of water use. Weather stations record chill hours, register rain events and also chronicle this information on an annual basis. Moisture probes monitor soil wetness in our vegetable beds. Precise water and fertilizer application is vital to growth, especially in hot summer months. These probes measure the soil’s ability to hold moisture further enabling us to manage our water resources.

Each peach variety has a particular chill hour requirement (hours with temps below 45°) in order to set its crop. Research has proven that water application in particular windows of the growing season directly impacts fruit size and quality.

Packing Facility
We take great pride in the quality of our fruit and in our Titan Brand name. Our state of the art packing facility enables us to ship some of the highest quality fruit in the marketplace. We have a computerized weight sizer that ensures our consumers get exactly what they pay for. Through the use of customized software, we are able to keep accurate packout records to aid in production and marketing decisions.

Our packing facility is where we focus a large portion of our food safety and security initiatives. As producers and packers of fresh fruit we have committed ourselves to producing not only the highest quality, but also the safest fruit in the industry. Click on the Food Safety page to learn more about this comprehensive program.

All of this technology, including real-time record keeping, is at the fingertips of our packing manager. Click on the Stages of Production page to learn about each stage of production with a comprehensive look at packing.

Inventory
Inventory Control is one of the most crucial aspects of our business. Through the use of hand held data collectors Titan produce is scanned into inventory as soon as it arrives at our packing facility so that we know every step it takes until it arrives in your local grocery store. This knowledge ensures that we provide our customers with the safest and freshest product possible. This state of the system designed by Chalmers Carr and created by the folks at Unisun Corporation, allows us real time inventory information of our products. Read more on the Food Safety page…

Payroll
None of the technology we have would work without good employees to execute it. At Titan Peach Farms, our employees range in number from 100 during the fall and winter to almost 450 during our busiest time of the year. Keeping accurate payroll records for each of these employees is a challenge.

When you add that many of these work on a production basis some of the time, this challenge becomes more complicated. We have a system that utilizes badges and portable data collectors to assure each employee is paid for his/her hours worked or time in production. It also provides data to aid in labor decisions for the management team and meets Department of Labor requirements.

These technologies, along with our commitment to provide our customers with the safest, highest quality fruits and vegetables available in the marketplace insures that Titan Farms will remain a part of that 2 percent in agriculture responsible for feeding the rest of the world…and that we are doing it better than the rest. To see these technologies in action please visit our photo gallery.