Common farm problems to solve via tech/app

[Tractorstant]

App that GPS maps every bale in the field, then works out the most efficient order in which to collect them. In terms of speed, or ground compaction or trailer capacity. IP rights etc etc

 

[Clive]

Hey!!! I am a young enterpreneur/software engineer. I am doing a research in farming, finding ideas and asking opinions from more people in the field. Which common issues/problems farmers facing and what could be useful to solve by creating/building an app or platform. It could be potentially an internal farming app helping farmers and managers to manage the farm flow. It could be a tool solving particular problems or organising labours. Increase productivity and efficiency of pickers/packers if it’s a vegetable/fruits business.

Really curious to hear what could be the common challenges that farmers experiencing nowadays and would also happy to pay for a good solution.

want a job ? We have a dev list than will never end !

 

[Two Tone]

The problem here is likely H&S.

If you let a bale go on a steep hill and it rolls away causing damage or injure someone stood behind the baler then you are liable. If it happened automatically who would be liable?

That is easily solved by fitting and inclinometer that will automatically prevent dropping bales out on un-level ground. This sort of tech is cheap as chips. It just needs building in to an algorithm so that if it thinks there may be a problem, the driver has to take over.

Other things that would be useful are a field map showing where each bale was dropped and in what order so as to direct the wrapper operator as to the quickest route to rap them all and the loader/trailer operator to clear the field in the most efficient way (once wrapped).

The tech is there. It just need somebody to come up with a program to make it work.


Here is another one:
If the Combine is yield mapping, it knows where in the field the yield is what.
If the Combine losses go critical at a certain tonnes/hour capacity, why not make it use that map to adjust the forward speed accordingly?
I.e. it knew what the yield was during the previous header width run beside where the Combine is now driving, so it can predict what it will be on the run it is on now.
Once the losses have gone critical, it takes a dramatic reduction in forward speed for them to go subcritical, before it can go back up to somewhere near its optimum forward speed.
So by anticipating where it needs to slow down, it will never do so.
This has got to be the best and cheapest way to create the ultimate forward speed cruise control system.

 

[manhill]

What about an app to collate dealer repair charges?
.Getting input from farmers on equipment model, fault, time to repair, charges for parts, that sort of thing.
Analysing that sort of info might be very useful when farmers make purchasing decisions.

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

What about an app to collate dealer repair charges?
.Getting input from farmers on equipment model, fault, time to repair, charges for parts, that sort of thing.
Analysing that sort of info might be very useful when farmers make purchasing decisions.

I'm suspect some dealers would pay for that app NOT to be produced

 

[zero]

Could do with an app that stops my phone ringing when my hands are clarted up.

 

[Red Fred]

How about an electronic box with a wide variety of sockets that can be used to control any machine such as the baler and wrapper when its own control box is on the fritz again

 

[Zippy768]

Is it the app that takes the BBC weather app feed, compares it with what's going on, gives them a mark out of ten and regards your misery at the real UK weather with pictures of Helen Willets in a charming frock?

This is what I was thinking

 

[Rob Holmes]

This is what I was thinking
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My Samsung phone already does that

 

[Zippy768]

My Samsung phone already does that

How?

 

[Rob Holmes]

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[Tarw Coch]

Why not run two round balers at once so while one is netting and ejecting, the other is baling. They could swing in and out on a fancy drawbar. I always hated them with a passion for all the reversing and the waiting. I think my old IH square baler was actually faster. Just keeps on pumping them out.

Not too sure on details, but don’t vicom make a fast bale I think it’s called that has something like a second chamber to start forming the next bale whilst one is being wrapped?