In the past year, TerraClear has deployed early versions of their solution that both map and clear fields of rocks. These rocks not only break the backs of those picking them up, but break increasingly expensive precision machinery that is in common use by farmers for planting, irrigating and harvesting. Medium to large farms incur anywhere from $5,000 to $150,000 worth of damage and cost, even more annually for the very large farms. Spread out over hundreds of millions of acres across the globe, that's a massive unaddressed opportunity.
Evan Aardema, a farmer and customer in southern Idaho said, "On a 150 acre field we went from it taking 4 days and 6 guys to pick the rock by hand, to 1 day with 3 guys with the Rock Picker. That's an 8x efficiency gain in the labor, and now I've got 18 days of labor that I can spend on something more productive."