No lab bench, no demo rig
The unit, on real ground.
Installed inline on working irrigation — conditioning every drop before it reaches the crop.
Vorterra isn't a prototype looking for its first believer. The technology has been running on major commercial operations for years — including some of the largest almond, pepper, fruit and strawberry growers in the United States — with two university-oversight evaluations in the record.
Installed inline on working irrigation — conditioning every drop before it reaches the crop.
The combined irrigated footprint (est.) of the commercial operations with Vorterra units in the ground — from Central Valley almonds to Northwest fruit.
Units operating from California, Washington and Arizona to Texas. Earlier university studies span India, Spain, Bangladesh and Turkey.
The University of Arizona's 2026 controlled trial — and a 2020 season-long commercial trial with preliminary findings verified by a UC Davis-trained hydrologic scientist.
Industry leaders tried the technology on their own ground, measured it, and kept it. Operation footprints marked (est.) are our estimates of each client's irrigated acreage; treated acreage grows program by program.
Among the largest fruit growers in the Pacific Northwest. Units running for over two years, with nearly doubled sapling growth reported.
The largest pepper grower in the world. Program underway across its desert growing regions.
Three seasons on Vorterra with an average yield increase near 15% — one of the longest-running commercial deployments.
Paying commercial deployment, plus a multi-cutting alfalfa research program with the University of Arizona — 20 cuttings tracked.
The nation's leading fresh-squeezed juice company. Avocado sapling growth nearly doubled on treated blocks.
One of the largest strawberry growers in the U.S. Three consecutive seasons on reclaimed water with A.G. Kawamura, former California Secretary of Food & Agriculture — 10–20% yield gains reported.
One of America's largest almond operations — host of a season-long, university-oversight A/B trial. Full results below.
Run by the team behind Kiss the Ground, the documentary that carried regenerative agriculture to a global audience — same soil-first conviction, now measured with Vorterra.
Our client Sovereignty Ranch — a 200-acre regenerative farm in Bandera, Texas — is run by the team behind Kiss the Ground, the Woody Harrelson-narrated documentary that carried regenerative agriculture to a global audience. Same soil-first conviction, now measured with Vorterra on the irrigation line.
Six years before the University of Arizona's Yuma evaluation, the technology went through the same kind of test at commercial scale: a season-long controlled A/B trial on almonds and grapes, instrumented by five independent measurement systems — with preliminary findings verified by Dr. Alyssa DeVincentis, PhD & MS in Hydrologic Sciences, University of California, Davis.
Trunk sensors confirmed the trees stayed in the ideal stress range all season — on 30% less irrigation.
Reduced chemical inputs with crop health tracked by leaf & mite pressure, soil and tissue analysis.
Aerial imagery showed treated blocks holding more canopy water and growing more vigorously — on sandier soil.
The irrigation event is more evenly wetting the soil profile and the applied water saturates the entire root-zone to the same degree… The soil moisture in the treatment is more consistent and predictable.
Same signature the University of Arizona measured independently six years later: water delivered better, retained longer — and yield that holds or climbs while the meter runs backward. See the full results →
The same spool piece that runs on commercial acres also runs on ground that feeds food banks and teaches the next generation.
Second Harvest grows fresh produce for families across Orange County. With Vorterra on the irrigation line, a single 1.5-acre block delivered the largest harvest the food bank has ever recorded — every pound of it going to people who need it.
Thaden's campus is built around working gardens and growing spaces where students study how food is grown. Vorterra runs on the water feeding those beds — so the lesson in living soil is happening under their feet, not just in a textbook.
On UHP's campus along the Spavinaw River, veterans grow the produce behind the culinary and nutrition programs in the campus greenhouse. Vorterra treats the water going in — supporting healthier plants for the people learning to cook, eat, and rebuild with them.
Shared with permission · Field results vary by crop, soil and season.
The technology is proven — deployment simply starts with a verified first block, run against a matched control with the plant data to show it held. Units are leased, Vorterra retains service, and a 10-year warranty stands behind the hardware.
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