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If You Grow Vegetables

You've built a serious operation.
Your systems need to keep up.

You have shaped your vegetable growing, processing and selling operation over the years. You intimately know:

  1. What you plan to grow
  2. What you do grow (and how that changed from your original plan)
  3. How you track your field plantings
  4. What you do with that information season after season

Maybe you — or a spouse or an employee — have built the spreadsheets, bought pre-written software to handle certain parts of the operation, or invested in building your own purpose-fit solution in whatever low-code tool made sense at the time. Then you trained the team and figured out the hard-knocks way to use that web of processes to actually get product from seed to invoice.

Your knowledge of your business isn't the question. The question is whether your systems are going to keep up with what's coming — and whether they're working as hard as you are.

Vegetable Production Management (VPM)

VPM follows your operation — not the other way around.

VPM is structured around the way a commercial vegetable farm actually works. Every step connected. Every question answerable. Without a manual scramble.

Plan
Varieties, acreage, planned inputs — and most importantly, planned revenues and cash flow
Grow
Greenhouse or transplant vendor to field transplant, or direct seed — tracked from the start
Harvest
The critical hinge point — traceably linking product in the field back to its plan and forward to its ultimate destination
Pack & Process
Pack runs where Lot Numbers are assigned (or reassigned) and mass balance numbers are maintained
Sell & Ship
Sales orders with multiple Lot assignment per line — linked directly to your financial software
Compliance that pays for itself

Your vegetable buyers are about to ask questions your current systems can't answer easily.

Every compliance demand headed your way — from distributors, food hubs, certifiers, and restaurant buyers — is chasing the same underlying data your operation already produces. Every season. Every year.

The problem isn't that the data doesn't exist. The problem is that it lives in disconnected systems that can't talk to each other — so every audit, every portal request, every new customer requirement triggers a manual scramble to reassemble it.

The move isn't building six separate compliance systems for six separate demands. The move is bringing it home to one connected foundation. Structured. Traceable. Ready to answer any question any entity asks.

Done right, compliance doesn't just cost you. It pays for itself — and builds the operational foundation that drives everything else.

Food Safety FSMA 204 FDA Food Traceability Rule — Enforcement July 2028 Dist. A Their portal Their format Dist. B Their portal Their timeline Food hub Supplier portal Restaurants Food safety audit Certifier Input records Field logs CSA New questions Your Farm's Data Foundation One connected source of truth — your data, your control Planting Plan Your plan for the Planting Season Greenhouse (or Transplant Vendor) Field Planting Direct Seed and Transplants Harvest The critical link between Field Planting and the Lot Number Pack Run output Pack Run Lot Number assignment Mass Balance tracking Sales Order Direct Financial Systems integration One foundation. Every compliance answer. Compliance that pays for itself. © 2026 Hanging Valley Enterprises LLC
Open Architecture

Your data. Your system. Your terms.

VPM runs in your own Microsoft cloud tenant. Your data stays yours — not held in someone else's cloud on someone else's terms. Share it with anyone or any system you choose.

Because VPM is built on Microsoft Power Platform, your team can extend and customize it using the AI tools you already have — Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. Describe what you need in plain English. Get back an answer.

Questions and challenges you've had for years but never had a realistic way to address — answered in minutes, not person-days.

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Your tenant, your data

VPM runs entirely within your own Microsoft environment. No shared cloud, no third-party data custody, no lock-in.

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Already integrated

QuickBooks Online integration is live and production-tested. For everything else — over 50 years of integration experience is the answer.

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AI queryable out of the box

Power FX is readable by Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. Extend VPM in plain English. Your team doesn't need a developer.

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Compliance-first architecture

Food Safety FSMA 204 traceability and USDA Organic Certification workflows are built into the foundation — not bolted on.

Integration

What about the tools you're already using?

Not everything needs to be replaced. Some tools are deeply embedded in how your operation runs — and replacing them may not be the right move, at least not now.

VPM is built open. You don't have to replace everything you've built, bought, or use.

Whether or not your current vendors are open to connecting, we can work with what you have. If you use QuickBooks Online, that integration is already solved and production-tested. For everything else — every farm management tool, every specialty app, every spreadsheet workflow that's too embedded to walk away from — that's exactly the kind of problem our over 50 years of consulting and systems integration experience exists to answer.

It's a conversation worth having before you assume anything has to change.

Compliance Coverage

Built into the foundation — not bolted on.

USDA Organic Certification workflow support — input records, field logs, certifier documentation
Food Safety FSMA 204 traceability chain — seed to sales order, bidirectional
Lot number assigned at Pack Run. The Harvest Record is the required link between the growing cycle and the processing and sales cycle — established once, at the initial Pack Run. Lot Numbers can be subsequently repacked into new, fully traceable, Lot Numbers as required.
Audit-ready record structure throughout — no manual reassembly when a compliance request lands

Ready to go further?

See VPM in action. Or get it directly from Microsoft AppSource and start in your own tenant today.