Farming Apps

Stuart.bell4

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Hi all, if you could create an app that doesn't already exist to support you in your daily farming duties, what would it be? What would be its purpose and any special features?
 

milkloss

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
Hi all, if you could create an app that doesn't already exist to support you in your daily farming duties, what would it be? What would be its purpose and any special features?

Whilst I think of an idea I will suggest that if you are writing an app for farming you really need to research the subject well. Really well. All is not always as it seems in farming. Calf registrations is a prime example.
 

Stuart.bell4

New Member
Whilst I think of an idea I will suggest that if you are writing an app for farming you really need to research the subject well. Really well. All is not always as it seems in farming. Calf registrations is a prime example.
Thank you for your advise. Whilst I am not an app developer I do enjoy finding solutions to problems and promoting the results. I no that apps in the past have been slow to find answers to common agg issues.
 

Gent_716

New Member
I have built a free resource called AgriApps.ie where I post useful farming apps that I have come used or come across. Feel free to add apps that you feel worthwhile.
For people with farming app ideas you can use services like odesk.com or elance.com to source freelancers you can build your vision.
 

Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
Adama have just launched a new App as part of their Water Aware Campaign. A new APP to help farmers and advisers prevent key pesticides entering raw water supplies – and avoid further restrictions being placed on products.

As part of Adama’s WaterAware initiative, the WaterAware APP spatially assimilates soil type and the associated soil moisture deficit information along with forecast weather, to provide farmers with a simple yes/no guide with regard to the timing of spray and pellet applications and the potential risk to surface water.

“WaterAware helps farmers to identify the potential risk from applying a product on a particular day, given their on farm conditions, in order to minimize the risk of pesticides entering surface water supplies,” says Dr Paul Fogg, Senior Crop Team Leader at Adama.

You can get it here for IPad/IPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/wateraware/id996450262?mt=8

Android version to be launched on 1st August.
 

harvestyield

New Member
HarvestYield is a free iPhone and iPad app to track and keep work records.
  • Jobs can be timed and tracked with GPS.
  • Jobs can be costed and billing amounts calculated by linking an activity to a job.
  • Fields can be mapped, measured and saved. (When performing a job in a saved field, the phone will automatically detect you are in it).
  • Summary of cost of work and total time spent in each field
  • Supports Weatherflow Windmeter to take wind measurements
  • Spray reports
  • Fertiliser reports
  • Configurable Metric and Imperial units
Coming soon:
HarvestYield Premium (£15 per month, 1 month free trial) is launching soon, that allows contracting work to be invoiced directly from the app.

Download at: harvestyield.com/app or search HarvestYield on the App Store
 
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