Best cropping software package

[AF Salers]

@ajd132 Can't like that enough Adam!! Farmers are being totally controlled and manipulated by 'Big Ag' and 'Big Food', and so many can't see it. UK Ag needs to get off the 'can and bag' hamster wheel and sharpish.

PS enjoyed your presentation on Wednesday, very honest and truthful

 

[ajd132]

@ajd132 Can't like that enough Adam!! Farmers are being totally controlled and manipulated by 'Big Ag' and 'Big Food', and so many can't see it. UK Ag needs to get off the 'can and bag' hamster wheel and sharpish.

PS enjoyed your presentation on Wednesday, very honest and truthful

I don’t mind sticking my ahead above the parapet on some of this stuff. I’m really not anti chemical or anything like that, I just don’t want to be a slave to chem and bio tech companies, their answers aren’t a lot of good these days anyway and as I said the hamster wheel is dangerously wobbling anyway, best get off first!

 

[warksfarmer]

Bayer took me to a conference in Cologne last September with loads of farmers around the world (I did question why I was invited, I presumed for re programming!) and they talked about field view and their price match thing linked in. These companies are quite literally trying to take control of us.
we are being farmed by the companies. Most farmers are just professional applicators of inputs.
It amazes me that farmers won’t spend £200 to go to a conference ran by other farmers on regen farming techniques (base) but will happily take a day off to go to a basf, ‘real results’ roadshow and get bent over and made to feel important all for a free hat and bacon sandwich and some talk about the latest in a long line of bloody fungicides, hardly enthralling is it?!

Yep totally agree, but machinery manufacturers are also doing it, saying they are monitoring for breakdowns when in reality they are monitoring your fuel use, work rates, yields etc and then using some clever accountants to work out average farm profitability to increase machine prices.

 

[SilliamWhale]

Bayer took me to a conference in Cologne last September with loads of farmers around the world (I did question why I was invited, I presumed for re programming!) and they talked about field view and their price match thing linked in. These companies are quite literally trying to take control of us.
we are being farmed by the companies. Most farmers are just professional applicators of inputs.
It amazes me that farmers won’t spend £200 to go to a conference ran by other farmers on regen farming techniques (base) but will happily take a day off to go to a basf, ‘real results’ roadshow and get bent over and made to feel important all for a free hat and bacon sandwich and some talk about the latest in a long line of bloody fungicides, hardly enthralling is it?!

To be honest when you reduce it all down it comes down to Fungicide Decisions at T1/T2. That is pretty much all what a lot of the input industry is driven by at the moment.

There will be no T0 viable soon or at least it will be very marginal as CTL goes.
T1 slot is pretty much triazole based but probably triazole/ sdhi the norm
T2 - is where the new products may be able to take a market share
T3 - currently sown up with Proline/ Tebuconazole by and large.

After that what else is there? I suppose Blackgrass control products.

The other thing of course is the mission creep of Fungicides. You basically get used to shifting upwards in pricing commitment towards a fungicide or a "T" stage. So you move from Triazole only to Triazole + 1sdhi, then to 2 sdhi, then to the Revysol at 1/2 rate, next it will be Revysol at full rate and each time the proportional spend of fungicide goes up a bit as the efficacy of the product seemingly goes down. But because the extra £5 ha you spent last year becomes the new normal the extra £5-10 the coming year is seen as not a huge jump. Obviously I get that R&D needs paying for but that's the way it goes.

 

[Davylad]

Hi All, hope it’s ok to advertise some software for crops that fellow arable farmers might be interested in .. I’ve just subscribed to for €100 including vat @ 23%... You can download to mobile , iPad and laptops and sync to all ! It’s really easy to use and really simple to get started... it’s an annual sub of €100 ... it’s www.kingswood.ie... They do a lot of business in the UK ... Ask for Gerry if anyone is interested. Cheers,D

 

[farenheit]

Hi All, hope it’s ok to advertise some software for crops that fellow arable farmers might be interested in .. I’ve just subscribed to for €100 including vat @ 23%... You can download to mobile , iPad and laptops and sync to all ! It’s really easy to use and really simple to get started... it’s an annual sub of €100 ... it’s www.kingswood.ie... They do a lot of business in the UK ... Ask for Gerry if anyone is interested. Cheers,D

I can't see that software being a great deal of good for arable farmers at all?

 

[Davylad]

How and why? I have it a week and think it’s excellent! A curious response Fahrenheit!!

 

[farenheit]

It seems to be entirely geared towards the livestock sector? Field management only seems to be mentioned in the context of grass? if I’m mistaken then their website needs some work!

 

[Davylad]

I wouldn’t disagree with your comments re website and I will mention it to Gerry ... But a phone call as I did and you will be sorted !

 

[Hampton]

Looking to change the software package i use to record arable side of business.

Currently using greenlight grower management. But @ £400/yr subscription it seems expensive for less than 600 acres combinable crops.

I use it for fertiliser/seed plans for drillman, Me. Record FYM, lime applications. Use it for fert applications to grass too.

Don't really record much harvest data on it.

Import spray plans from agronomist and record applications.

If your not bothered about the “pro check” part of the software (the auditing that flags up mistakes) then I think it makes it about £150 per annum cheaper

 

[Chae1]

If your not bothered about the “pro check” part of the software (the auditing that flags up mistakes) then I think it makes it about £150 per annum cheaper

Got invoice in last week. Down to £250 now.

It annoyed me how number of farms puts up subscription cost. Got a few farms, but many of them not big acres. Have just merged them together to reduce cost.

 

[yellow belly]

Got invoice in last week. Down to £250 now.

It annoyed me how number of farms puts up subscription cost. Got a few farms, but many of them not big acres. Have just merged them together to reduce cost.

i still us crop Walker
I have 4 farms so could merge them to 1
do they use block crops as with crop Walker
does the full nutrients side work well

 

[Will Blackburn]

I was looking into a fert & spray record app and came across one using a GoCanvas format. Worked well but in a US format, so set about making a metric one based around my farm with my fields and crops.

This means I can attach Sencrop data, quickly click farms and fields and chems used etc. It stores it in a cloud and also sends me an email with the record pdf. For one user it’s free and infinitely adaptable.

 

[Pigless]

I was looking into a fert & spray record app and came across one using a GoCanvas format. Worked well but in a US format, so set about making a metric one based around my farm with my fields and crops.
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This means I can attach Sencrop data, quickly click farms and fields and chems used etc. It stores it in a cloud and also sends me an email with the record pdf. For one user it’s free and infinitely adaptable.

That sounds very useful, is there a link to the starting format?

 

[Will Blackburn]

That sounds very useful, is there a link to the starting format?

Spray Apps Eliminate Cumbersome Paper Tracking | GoCanvas

Track with ease agricultural spray frequency, chemicals used and more using the FREE Spray App Mobile App. This app documents all types of spray activities.

www.gocanvas.com

I used this as the basis but once I realised the potential to make simple but comprehensive records using the tools available it has taken shape. Still a work in progress, but the ability to preload farm and field names and typical pests, diseases and crops keeps filling out very fast. The original just has corn and beans as crops and gallons and acres for units so some self development is essential.

 

[Northdowns Martin]

I read that Landmark has acquired Pear Ag, will be interesting to see how they integrate their programs