Volunteer Capacity Planner
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your season need?
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Farm Profile
3
115 sites
12
280 acres
10 active weekends · 7h avg shift
Live Output
Volunteers / weekend
0
across 3 sites
Season hours
0
volunteer-hours
lbs harvested
0
est. impact
Capacity breakdown
Coverage
0%
Utilization
0%
Produce
0%
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Platform Comparison
Built for the field,
not the boardroom.
Every row is a real pain point from cooperative managers. Watch the case make itself.
| Pain Point | Manual Spreadsheets + texts | Generic Platforms Not ag-aware | Yield Season-aware dispatch |
|---|---|---|---|
Scheduling Shift coverage rate | 54% avg fill rate | 71% — no ag context | 94% fill rate |
Cancellations Day-of cancellation handling | Manual group text scramble | Email blast, slow response | Auto-dispatch to waitlist in 4 min |
Visibility Multi-site coordination | Separate spreadsheets per site | Single calendar view only | Unified dispatch board, all sites |
Skills Equipment operator matching | Memory & hope | Free-text tags, manual search | Certified skills database + auto-match |
Weather Storm / heat alert response | Check weather app manually | No weather integration | NOAA-linked shift alerts, auto-reschedule |
Impact Produce-saved tracking | Estimated guesses at season end | Not tracked at all | Live lbs counter, grant-ready reports |
Seasons Season-aware scheduling | Same calendar year-round | No harvest/gleaning modes | Planting, harvest, gleaning, disaster modes |
Onboarding New volunteer intake | Paper forms, re-entered manually | Generic signup form | Mobile onboarding + skill cert upload |
Every row above is a real complaint from a cooperative manager.
Yield was built from 200+ interviews with farm program directors across the US.
From the Field
The numbers don't lie.
Neither do the managers.
Harvest
94%
Weekend fill rate
“Before Yield, I was texting 34 people every Friday night hoping enough showed up Saturday morning. Last harvest we hit 94% fill rate across all five sites. I actually slept Thursday nights again.”
Carolyn Vasquez
Cooperative Manager
Piedmont Valley Farm Co-op, NC
Gleaning
47,200
Lbs rescued last season
“Our gleaner program rescued 47,000 lbs of produce last fall — up from 29,000 the year prior. The skill-matching meant we always had someone certified to drive the lift equipment. That's the difference.”
Marcus Okafor
Program Director
Second Harvest Gleaners, Central Valley CA
Disaster Recovery
140
Volunteers deployed in 72h
“After Hurricane Ida we had 72 hours to mobilize 140 volunteers across 8 orchards. Yield's disaster-recovery mode had everyone assigned and en route before I finished my second cup of coffee. No platform does that.”
Stephanie Nguyen
County Extension Agent
St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Your estimate: 84 volunteers this harvest window
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