CASE STUDY · SPECIALTY CROPS, ORCHARDS & VINEYARDS

Water reduction and disease detection on a 12,000-acre California almond operation.

CUSTOMER · Confidential — Top-10 California almond producer

SCOPE · 12,000 acres across two counties

DURATION · 14 months (architecture + deploy), then ongoing managed operations

Customer

Confidential — Top-10 California almond producer

Industry

Specialty Crops, Orchards & Vineyards

Scope

12,000 acres across two counties

Duration

14 months (architecture + deploy), then ongoing managed operations

The Challenge

What we were called in to solve.

California's SGMA water restrictions hit the customer's operations directly. The operation needed to demonstrate 25%+ water reduction without sacrificing yield — a hard target.

Concurrently, navel orangeworm and hull-rot disease pressure was rising and the operation's scouting program was thin. The CFO and the head of sustainability disagreed on which problem to prioritize.

The Approach

How JMJ engineered the engagement.

JMJ deployed a soil-moisture sensor network (per-zone, two soil depths) and AI-driven irrigation control integrated with the operation's existing Jain valve infrastructure. We added a multispectral drone scouting program flying every 10 days during the growing season.

Custom AI models trained on three years of historical disease pressure tied it all together. Water and disease became one integrated program rather than two competing initiatives.

Solutions deployed

Outcomes