Best cropping software package

[cousinjack]

I tried that! Can send you a copy of email if you want. Wasn't simple.

Needed at least 20 customers was 1 requirement!

Can't record ploughing, drilling, harvesting.

Doh !

 

[john63]

I have an excel spreadsheet, with a tab for each field. Seems to work ok at the moment. The hardest bit is getting it setup for a start.

 

[yellow belly]

Still using muddy boots crop walker
the concern is it could crash and be unrecoverable
the problem with green light is it only works on iOS systems so would need an apple screen in the sprayer

 

[Boysground]

Still using muddy boots crop walker
the concern is it could crash and be unrecoverable
the problem with green light is it only works on iOS systems so would need an apple screen in the sprayer

I bought a iPad mini it was the cheapest it works really well. Only real problem with the app is that you can’t enter drilling info on it.

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[Chae1]

Still using muddy boots crop walker
the concern is it could crash and be unrecoverable
the problem with green light is it only works on iOS systems so would need an apple screen in the sprayer

I had that before and was forced/pushed to change. Amazed its still going!

 

[Robert K]

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.

Does anybody use Sum-it? We have the Total Field Package, which is desk top based system for accounts and recording info.
Thinking of getting the mobile app for recording in the field. The main package was £600 ish one off purchase but the app is a £90 annual fee (which I dont like).
Any feedback would be appreciated.

We are now using Sum-it and so far it has been very good both in the office and on the sprayer records.

 

[warksfarmer]

No idea why anybody would use any form of cloud based software. If you think your data is safe, then you are deluded. It’s being used to sell back to you stuff you don’t need.

This also goes for any telematic machine monitoring as all you are doing is free reasearch for the manufacturer who then uses it to price the next generation of equipment that your going to buy off them.

 

[Clive]

No idea why anybody would use any form of cloud based software. If you think your data is safe, then you are deluded. It’s being used to sell back to you stuff you don’t need.

This also goes for any telematic machine monitoring as all you are doing is free reasearch for the manufacturer who then uses it to price the next generation of equipment that your going to buy off them.

data is far safer in the cloud than on you own pc

your are using the cloud and sharing data right now and do so many, many times everyday, it’s completely unavoidable but no one this side of mi6 can do anything with that data without your permission !

just be careful who who give that permission to

 

[Boysground]

I found the original quote

Hi guys, we came across this thread and just wanted to set the record straight with regard to our data usage policy. Here at Muddy Boots our policy remains that our customers own their data and have control over it. Our Greenlight platform is designed to enable farmers, operators, agronomists, advisers to work together more effectively by collaborating on a single set of farm data. The owner of the data controls if they want to share it and chooses who they share it with.

We do retain the right to make use of anonymised customer data. This is for internal use only to help improve the product and provide valuable data insights back to our customers, not for resale.

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[warksfarmer]

data is far safer in the cloud than on you own pc

your are using the cloud and sharing data right now and do so many, many times everyday, it’s completely unavoidable but no one this side of mi6 can do anything with that data without your permission !

just be careful who who give that permission to

I share data I want to share, not private business data. Using the internet it’s unavoidable for general personal use age I accept that. But business info is private.

 

[Clive]

I share data I want to share, not private business data. Using the internet it’s unavoidable for general personal use age I accept that. But business info is private.

business data via the cloud is unavoidable and increasingly so

VAT / PAYE / BPS , taxing vehicles, planning, shopping and selling inputs / outputs abs equipment (increasingly b2b) etc the list grows longer daily

it’s futile resisting and silly being paranoid about it imo. none of this is harmful and in many cases it is to your advantage

my only objection is the likes of gatekeeper / proagrica making cash selling MY data without the being anything in it for me - least they could do is stop charging for their crappy software !

 

[lucas]

Im watching this thread with interest, is anyone using the Pear Agri cloud based system?, I had a demo and liked the look of the platform, but the app wasn't finished at the time.

 

[Farmer.sa]

We have just changed from GK to Geofolia,
It’s cheaper then GK and a lot more user friendly. As part of the package we also each have an app which you can do everything on from creating work plans to recording jobs or checking stocks as long as there up-to date!!! most of us tend to have smart phones in our pockets and you don’t even need a signal to use it, as long as you sync when you can.

 

[SilliamWhale]

We have just changed from GK to Geofolia,
It’s cheaper then GK and a lot more user friendly. As part of the package we also each have an app which you can do everything on from creating work plans to recording jobs or checking stocks as long as there up-to date!!! most of us tend to have smart phones in our pockets and you don’t even need a signal to use it, as long as you sync when you can.

Secret price?

 

[DangerRanger]

I’m looking forward trying Fendt One soon - it’s going to be free as well i think if i understood correctly at Agritechnica

i think such systems like this and my john deere etc are the future as they develop and increasing add all the functionality (and more) of any crop recording system

They are all beginning to evolve data’s version of ISO which will make them all far more brand agnostic

i no longer use gatekeeper mapping - cloud precision farming services have made that obsolete already so I expect the record keeping will go the same way

What mapping and precision farming cloud based software do you now use?

 

[Brisel]

Im watching this thread with interest, is anyone using the Pear Agri cloud based system?, I had a demo and liked the look of the platform, but the app wasn't finished at the time.

@Pear John

 

[Worsall]

Sumit TOTAL Accounts with Arable. MTD Vat a doddle, end year a doddle,field records are the best of any platform for easy recording and excellent evaluation or selective reporting.
Down side-no decent linked mapping package if you like all the pretty pictures etc, and no direct link with agronomist, so double entry spray recs (which I don't mind, as printed agronomist rec stays with sprayer, then when operation is done, all the details are entered onto sumit-excellent stock taking and costings)

 

[RobFM]

We have introduced some cropping features recently at www.fieldmargin.com we'd love your feedback.
We've also added NDVI. The plans are £20/m and £30/m (with and without satellite). (new Essentials plan is launching next week at £3.75/m with up to 5 inputs and unlimited history - don't tell marketing team I told you that yet though)...

We had discussions to put a database of chemical labels on the platform but 2 things got in the way.
1. The rules vary by country and we now have customers in 80 countries.
2. Capita who now own FERA wanted huge money for database access that wasn't guaranteed to be correct.

 

[warksfarmer]

Be careful who you trust. This is happening in the states via Fieldview.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1228027323150217218

 

[ajd132]

Be careful who you trust. This is happening in the states via Fieldview.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1228027323150217218

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?!