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Agricultural Ground Intelligence

What if your report
actually counted?

A dedicated rural safety network for South African agriculture. Report incidents, stay connected to your region, and help build the record that demands a response.

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Isolated incidents become patterns. Patterns become evidence. Evidence demands a response. AgriSpoor is how South African agriculture builds that case.

Observe  ·  Record  ·  Share  ·  Impact

The problem

If it was never reported, it never happened.

Across South African agriculture, a significant number of rural incidents never make it into any formal record. Not because nothing is happening. Because the barriers to reporting are real, and the perceived return on reporting often feels low. So farmers say nothing.

A tracker reading the land does not see an empty field. They read what passed, when it passed, and how many. What is not recorded cannot be read. The gap between what happens and what is on record is where the problem hides.

WhatsApp groups and farm watch networks do vital work. But a voice message to a neighbour leaves no formal record. No evidence. No timestamp. Nothing that builds a trail over time.

The land sees more when more people are watching.

A different kind of system

A record that complements existing channels. And fills the gaps they leave.

AgriSpoor works alongside existing reporting structures, not in place of them. What it does is capture the incidents that currently go unrecorded: a structured, evidenced, time-stamped dataset that builds a more complete picture of rural safety in South Africa.

Where the recorded picture and the lived reality diverge, that gap becomes the basis for AgriSA’s advocacy, with government, with safety authorities, and with policymakers. Your report, however small it seems, is part of that case.

How it works

Three things the AgriSpoor does at once.

Report

Wherever you are. Whatever you witness. Your evidence on record.

Report incidents from your farm, your road, your community. Wherever you are when something happens, you can log it. GPS and photos captured at the scene, time-stamped and submitted to the record.

Connect

Know what is happening around you.

When farmers in your region report incidents, you receive a generalised community alert. What type of incident, and roughly where. You are not farming alone. And you will know when to be extra alert.

Advocate

Every report builds the case that demands a response.

The more complete the record, the stronger the case. Your report, combined with thousands of others, builds a dataset that gives AgriSA the evidence it needs to advocate effectively at every level.

Built-in evidence
Your location and proof, captured automatically

Submit evidence, not just a description.

The moment you open an incident, GPS pins your exact location. Add photos directly from your phone. Evidence is captured on the spot, not reconstructed later. Every report arrives time-stamped, location-verified, and with proof attached. Whether you are on your farm or fifty kilometres away, the record is the same quality.

If you saw it, report it. Even if you think someone else already has.

The instinct to defer is natural. Someone closer to the incident has probably already logged it. But duplicate reports do not cancel each other out. They compound the case. If fifteen farmers report stray animals on the same stretch of road, that is not redundancy. That is fifteen data points showing a persistent problem that demands a response.


One report is an incident. Fifteen reports is a pattern. Patterns cannot be ignored.

The accountability layer

Your report does not disappear into a void. Your provincial office is on the other end.

Every report submitted through the AgriSpoor App goes directly to your provincial agricultural union. AgriSA also receives every report. Their teams have live access to a dedicated dashboard where your report, and every report from your province, is visible, tracked, and acted on. These are the organisations that know the land, know the farmers, and have the networks and the mandate to respond.

Reports are received and acted on by a network of organisations that serve agriculture.

60s
Submit a Report
24
Dedicated incident forms
Live
Recent incidents near you, in real time
GPS
Auto location and photo proof
What can be reported

Three categories. One reporting system.

The app launched with Rural Safety is fully active. Infrastructure Faults and Biosecurity follow in the next development phase.

Rural Safety
Active
Infrastructure Faults
Active
Biosecurity
Active
Within Rural Safety
Six incident categories. Twenty-four dedicated forms.
Each category contains specific sub-types with dedicated reporting forms, tailored to capture exactly what happened.
Theft
7 types
Stock TheftCable Theft Field Crop TheftFruit Theft Animal Product TheftVehicle Theft General Theft
Violent / High Risk
5 types
Farm AttackMurder / Attempted Murder House RobberyGender-Based Violence Domestic Violence
Land & Access
4 types
TrespassingProtest Land InvasionMI2P
Illegal Mining
3 types
Illegal Mining on Farm Zama Zama Activity Suspected Mining
Animal Related
4 types
Stray AnimalsIllegal Hunting with Dogs PoachingIllegal Grazing
Suspicious / Threat
Single form
Dedicated reporting form
How we get there

Four milestones. One direction.

Delivered
May 2026
WhatsApp Reporting
WhatsApp reporting launched May 2026. Message AgricultureSA on +27 79 467 0702 and start with "menu" or "hello". Works alongside the app.
Live Now
June 2026
Spoor App Version 1.0
The app is live. Reporting, community intelligence, regional alerts, hotspot map, area risk snapshot, and verified insights from AgriSA. Available to all farmers now.
Coming
October 2026
Offline Reporting
Store your report locally in areas with no signal and it submits the moment you reconnect. No lost incidents. No failed submissions.
Coming
November 2026
Afrikaans
Full Afrikaans language support across the app and WhatsApp bot. The system works the way you do.
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Available now

The AgriSpoor App is live.
Download it now.

The app is available now. Download it, open it, and you are connected to a live rural safety intelligence network from day one. Reporting, community alerts, your regional hotspot map, and verified insights from AgriSA — all available immediately.


Offline reporting arrives in October 2026. Full Afrikaans language support follows in November 2026.

An AgriCulture South Africa product

AgriSpoor — Agricultural Ground Intelligence

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Follow the link to download AgriSpoor onto your phone. The link will open in your browser and guide you through installation.

Why AgriSpoor?

The name was not manufactured.
It was found.

"Agri" comes from the Latin ager, meaning field or land. It is the natural prefix for anything rooted in agriculture and connects the product directly to the AgriSA family.

"Spoor" is deeply Southern African. In Afrikaans, it carries two meanings at once: the tracks or footprints left by an animal moving through the land, and a railway line, infrastructure that connects. Both meanings are alive in the word: evidence of movement, and a network that carries it forward.

The word is not a translation. It entered English from Afrikaans and Dutch more than two centuries ago and is already part of both languages. Across South African communities, the practice of reading tracks, understanding what has passed from what remains in the soil, is common ground.

A tracker reading spoor does not simply see that something was here. They read a full story from marks in the ground: what it was, how fast it moved, which direction it went, when it passed. AgriSpoor works the same way. One report tells one story. Hundreds of reports across a region reveal something no single farmer can see alone. The network reads the collective spoor. The reports are the tracks.