Case study: Isoporc
Isoporc: a new view of inventory
Isoporc raises close to 335,000 pigs a year. With more than 300 feed bins across about a hundred partner farms, it replaced manual inventory estimates with a centralized data platform.
“With AgFlo, we finally have the near real-time visibility we were missing. It's a complete shift in how we manage our inventories, orders and production. This is the feed mill of the future.”
Martin Leroux
General Manager, Isoporc
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The challenge
Before AgFlo, inventory management relied on visual estimates, tapping bins with a hammer and phone calls. These manual methods created several challenges:
- Limited visibility into feed levels, increasing the risk of bins running empty and emergency orders.
- Wrong or late orders, disrupting production planning.
- Significant logistics costs, with unoptimized deliveries and costly end-of-batch pickups.
- Difficulty following the feeding program precisely, particularly when feed costs are high.
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The solution
The solution put in place
After a rigorous pilot phase, Isoporc rolled out the AgFlo solution at scale. Compared with other, more complex and costly systems, AgFlo won them over with:
- Accurate, affordable sensors that are easy to install, retrieve and redeploy when farm partnerships change.
- Compatibility with bins of varying sizes and materials.
- In field testing, 99% of AgFlo readings differed by less than one metric tonne from industrial scale measurements.
A data management platform
But above all, AgFlo stood out with its data management software platform, the true heart of the solution:
- Visual bin mapping with color-coded level indicators.
- Consumption curves and detailed history.
- Centralized, continuous access from any connected device.
- Successful test of remote feed ordering, a first step toward full automation.
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The results
Results in practice
Proven accuracy
- In field testing, 99% of AgFlo readings differed by less than one metric tonne from industrial scale measurements.
- Lower risk of bins running empty or being overfilled.
Optimized costs and transport
- Fewer deliveries and better route planning.
- Fewer end-of-batch pickups, limiting costly handling and quality losses.
- A positive impact on the carbon footprint.
Direct economic gains
- Savings of several thousand dollars per farm from better adherence to the feeding program and optimized logistics.
Safety and peace of mind
- Fewer unnecessary trips.
- Less uncertainty for producers and teams.
Outlook and vision for the future
Building on these results, Isoporc and its parent company, Groupe Mario Côté, committed in 2025 to a rollout of 900 additional sensors, covering their entire farm network and part of their partner sites. The ambition is to go even further, by:
- Automating feed orders based on continuous data.
- Integrating the AgFlo platform with the mill's production and logistics software, to synchronize manufacturing and transport.
- Giving producers direct access to track and manage their own feed inventory.
