2026 SAG Award Winners

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida

Project Goal

What was once a paper-driven, reactive operation has evolved into a fully connected, real-time agricultural system powered by ArcGIS. Today, SCGC coordinates its 180-day harvest with precision, enabling faster data-driven decisions, improved efficiency, and millions in operational savings.
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Business Problem Solved

SCGC’s ag operations relied on paper-based processes and disconnected systems that provided little to no real-time visibility across the harvest cycle. This lack of integration and spatial awareness led to inefficiencies in logistics, underutilized resources, and reactive decision-making in a highly time-sensitive, 24-hour harvest environment.

Technology Implemented

ArcGIS Enterprise
ArcGIS Pro
ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Velocity
ArcGIS Survey 123
ArcGIS FieldMaps

Development Team Biography

Patrick Arnold - Ag Technology Manager
Yobani Maldonado - Ag Systems Administrator
Isaac Jaquez - Ag Systems Analyst

Company Overview

Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida brings sugar from cane fields in South Florida to dinner tables, restaurants and food manufacturing facilities throughout America and around the globe. The Cooperative is comprised of small to medium-sized member farms that grow sugarcane on approximately 70,000 acres of what is among the most fertile and productive farmland in America, located in the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA).

Sugarcane grown by its members is harvested, transported and processed, and the raw sugar is marketed. The Cooperative produces more than 350,000 tons of raw sugar annually that once refined, is enough to serve the average annual demand of more than 9 million people.

Return on Investment

Labor savings - $600,000
Asset savings - $2,000,000
Fuel savings - $1,000,000
Loss savings - $1,200,000