Vegetable Production Management (VPM)
A comprehensive farm management solution purpose-built for small to mid-size commercial vegetable operations. Plan, grow, harvest, pack, and sell — with the compliance infrastructure your buyers and regulators already require.
This page is being expanded. A full product overview — including feature walkthroughs, screenshots, and module detail — is in development. In the meantime, the AppSource listing above has the complete product description, and the See How It Works paths below show how VPM fits your specific role.
The gap that nobody was filling.
Most vegetable farm operations manage their business through spreadsheets, whiteboards, and tribal knowledge. The software options available are either enterprise-complex and enterprise-priced — built for large commodity operations — or consumer-grade tools that lack the compliance and traceability infrastructure that growing regulatory requirements demand.
VPM is purpose-built for the gap in the middle. And the pressure to fill that gap is intensifying. FDA Food Safety FSMA 204 mandates lot-level traceability for fresh produce from field to first receiver, with Congressional-mandated enforcement beginning July 20, 2028. That deadline is fixed. Buyer-imposed requirements are already arriving ahead of it.
Everything connected. Nothing siloed.
Every transaction in VPM links to a Production Plan, creating a complete traceability chain from planting decision to customer dock. The full growing season — planning, field work, harvest, pack shed, and sales — lives in one connected system on your own Microsoft tenant.
Built-in support for USDA Organic, Oregon Tilth, and WSDA certification is part of the core data model. The current implementation addresses 85–90% of FDA Food Safety FSMA 204 requirements.
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Production PlanningDefine what to grow, when, and where across fields and greenhouses. The plan drives everything downstream.
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Field OperationsGreenhouse seeding, transplanting, direct seeding, and material input tracking with full lot linkage.
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Harvest RecordsYield tracking linked to production plans and field planting records — the traceability chain anchor.
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Pack Shed ProcessingLot number assignment, grading, quality control, and finished goods tracking from wash line to dock.
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Sales Order ManagementCustomer orders, pricing, shipping, and delivery — with lot-level fulfillment linkage throughout.
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QuickBooks Online IntegrationCustomer and vendor synchronization with invoice generation from order fulfillment. Available in Advanced Release.
Built on Microsoft. Running on your tenant.
VPM is built on Microsoft Dataverse and the Power Platform — the same foundation that runs operations across every industry. Your data lives in your own Microsoft environment. You control it, you own it, and you can query it with any AI tool that can connect to Dataverse: Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.
Microsoft Dataverse
62+ custom entities purpose-built for vegetable production. Enterprise-grade audit trail and change tracking included.
Power Platform
Model-Driven and Canvas Apps. Power Automate workflows. Power BI analytics. Extensible by your own IT staff.
No Vendor Lock-In
Your data stays in your tenant. The architecture extends to Microsoft Business Central, NetSuite, and WMS platforms as you grow.
AI-Queryable
Structured Dataverse data is queryable by any AI assistant. Ask your farm anything — compliance costs, margin by buyer, yield by field.
Not a theoretical use case.
VPM has been in beta production at a certified organic vegetable operation in the Pacific Northwest — 40–60 acres under cultivation, running real field operations, pack shed workflows, and customer order requirements. The architecture you're looking at was tested against daily farm reality for three years before it became a product.
Compliance coverage in the current release
FDA Food Safety FSMA 204 — Critical Tracking Event (CTE) capture and Key Data Element (KDE) documentation across Harvesting, Initial Packing, and Shipping CTEs. Architecture supports the 24-hour data retrieval requirement.
USDA Organic Certification — land history, material input tracking, production records, and sales documentation chains supporting annual certification and audit requirements for Oregon Tilth and WSDA programs.
Accessible for farms and vegetable growing operations of every size.
From small but ambitious operations under 20 acres with their eyes on growth, through our core mid-market target of 20–500 acres, to large operations that have outgrown or are simply not happy with their current systems — VPM has no ceiling on farm size. Pricing is designed to be within reach for the operations this was built for, not enterprise-priced for enterprise buyers.
The AppSource plans below run on Microsoft-hosted infrastructure. If you prefer to run VPM on your own Microsoft Power Platform and Dataverse tenant, additional licensing options are available — see below.
Entry Level Starter System
Begin transitioning to full traceability with a low-commitment monthly subscription. Ideal for evaluating VPM in a live environment before committing to an annual term.
First month free. Cancel anytime.
Entry Level Starter System
The same starter system on an annual commitment — the most cost-effective way to get VPM running for a full growing season. Equivalent to about $8.33/user/month billed annually.
First month free. Annual term.
Conference Room Pilot
For operations ready to make a serious start with hands-on HVE involvement. Includes a minimum of four user seats plus a structured Conference Room Pilot engagement — a facilitated process to translate your farm's specific workflows, customer relationships, and production knowledge into a configured system.
Pricing based on user count and CRP scope. Contact us to discuss.
Prefer to run VPM in your own Microsoft environment?
For operations with existing Microsoft 365 or Power Platform tenants, or those who want full control over their deployment environment, VPM is available under direct licensing arrangements outside of AppSource. Three options are available:
Discuss licensing options →Core Release is the foundation. The platform grows with you.
The Core Release delivers the complete Dataverse data architecture and Model-Driven App covering production planning through sales orders. Additional modules extend the platform with full Canvas App workflows, financial integration, and analytics. All are released as separate AppSource components that build on the Core.
A word about implementation.
This is not a system you install and have running the following week.
Most vegetable operations have years of accumulated knowledge about how their farm works — planting sequences, customer relationships, pack shed rhythms — that lives in the heads of the people who built the operation. Getting a system like this working well means translating that knowledge into a new structure, and that takes real time and effort.
The good news is that the Power Platform foundation means your own staff or a trusted local IT resource can do most of that work without depending on expensive outside specialists who have never worked in a greenhouse, a field, or a pack shed. Sample data sets and configuration guides are included to support evaluation before committing to full deployment.
If your first reaction to this system is "this looks powerful but getting it running on my farm is going to be real work" — you are reading it correctly, and you are probably exactly the kind of operator this was built for.
Find your path into VPM.
The full product overview page is in development. In the meantime, each of the paths below walks through how VPM addresses the specific challenges of your role — with the detail that matters to you.
The Grower
Farm owners and operators managing production, compliance, and customer relationships.
See the grower path →The Distributor / Food Hub
Regional distributors and food hubs managing supplier traceability and compliance requirements.
See the distributor path →The Business Advisor
Agricultural consultants, accountants, and advisors evaluating VPM for client operations.
See the advisor path →The Technical Advisor
Microsoft partners and IT professionals evaluating VPM for implementation engagements.
See the technical path →Ready to take a closer look?
The AppSource listing has the complete product description and licensing options. Or contact us if you'd rather start with a conversation.