Stand Learn how to streamline your farm management with fieldmargin app | Official sponsor of Cereals LIVE | 4 months half price for Cereals attendees

fieldmargin

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Cereals Exhibitor
Location
London, UK
fieldmargin: the app farmers have been waiting for


"The app farmers have been waiting for". fieldmargin brings mapping, issue tracking, field work, inputs and reporting into one place. Up-to-the-minute farm information is at your fingertips, whether in the field, in the cab, at your desk or on the sofa. You can share everything with your team, including your agronomist and contractors, so everyone is in the loop.

Thousands of farmers around the world use fieldmargin to manage their business, from Australia to Zimbabwe.

This year we are thrilled to be the official sponsors of Cereals LIVE.

We will be online from 8am-8pm on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th to chat with you about the app. We will also be giving a selection of talks and demos showcasing how you can use fieldmargin to save time on your farm and how farmers around the world are using technology to improve productivity.

fieldmargin believes that great technology should be accessible for all types of farm. It is free to get started with the app and for Cereals we are running a special offer of 4 months of Pro half price (just £15 per month!).

 

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fieldmargin

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Cereals Exhibitor
Location
London, UK
Schedule

We have put together a program of talks to help you learn how to use the app and get inspiration from how farmers around the world are harnessing technology to help their farm.

Wednesday 10th JuneThursday 11th June
10-11 Meet the fieldmargin team + Q&A9-10 How to set up your farm to save time and reduce admin with fieldmargin
App demo with our founder’s farm
12-1 How to set up your farm to save time and reduce admin with fieldmargin
App demo with our founder’s farm
11-12 Tech insights from farmers around the world
Discussion with Nuffield Scholar Jamie Lockhart followed by case studies of how fieldmargin is being used around the world
2-2:30 Making a Digital Map of your farm
Learn how to quickly map your farm’s fields using RPA boundaries, set up cropping and add detail such as hedges or watercourses
12-12:30 Making a Digital Map of your farm
Learn how to quickly map your farm’s fields using RPA boundaries, set up cropping and add detail such as hedges or watercourses
4:30-5 Workshop: Introducing tech on your farm and getting your team onboard
We know learning new tech can be daunting. In this workshop we will share ideas for adopting new systems and training staff.
2:30-3 Mapping and record keeping for environmental stewardship
Using fieldmargin to map and keep records for environmental stewardship schemes such as HLS, Countryside Stewardship and ELMS.
4:30 – 5 Crop and soils monitoring with fieldmargin
Learn how to record scouting notes with pictures, track soil data and use satellite imagery to monitor fields from space


 

fieldmargin

Member
Cereals Exhibitor
Location
London, UK
Meet the team

While we're sorry we won't be able to meet you in person this year we will be online from 8am-8pm on the 10th and 11th June to answer your questions about the app and chat farm tech.
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Camilla Hayselden-Ashby
Head of Product

Camilla looks after understanding the needs of our farmers and working out what we should build next to improve the app. She also has a mixed family farm in Kent with sheep and arable.​
Rob Carter
CEO and Co-founder

Rob worked in businesses across the start-up space before coming on-board with co-founder and farmer, Mark, to found fieldmargin.​
Alison Fraser
Customer Support Co-coordinator

Ali makes sure that all our users have a great experience using the app and any existing users tuning in will probably have spoken to her. Before fieldmargin she worked at Syngenta as a plant scientist and has a PhD from the University of Nottingham where she focused on Oil Seed Rape​

 
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fieldmargin

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Cereals Exhibitor
Location
London, UK
What can you do with fieldmargin?

Map your farm
Get started and set up your farm in minutes. Import field boundaries from the RPA, allocate crops in a few clicks, invite your team and you are ready to start planning and tracking work.

Planning and tracking field work
With Field Jobs, planning, input calculation and scheduling is all in one place. Keep up-to-date and accurate records in seconds from a phone or PC.

Scouting
Record issues such pests, disease or farm maintenance using located notes with photos. This means you can resolve problems faster.

Farm records and reporting
A history of all your work and records of input use by field and across farm. Records are updated when you complete your work. No need for a separate system or hours in the farm office. Paperwork is obliterated.

Using satellite NDVI imagery for remote crop monitoring
How you can use satellite imagery with NDVI analysis to identify problem areas early and go straight to them when scouting.

fieldmargin believes that great technology should be accessible for all types of farm. It is free to get started with the app and for Cereals we are running a special offer of 4 months of Pro half price (just £15 per month!).

 

fieldmargin

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Cereals Exhibitor
Location
London, UK
Get 4 months of Pro half price

You can get started using fieldmargin for free. When you're ready to upgrade plans start from £3.75/month for Essentials. You can find information on all our plans here.

We are running a special offer for Cereals LIVE: 4 months of Pro half price (£15/month).


With Pro you get: all fieldmargin mapping and core features, full work history, unlimited input records, enhanced reporting, report downloads and Field Health satellite imagery analysis.

 

fieldmargin

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Cereals Exhibitor
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London, UK
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Q&A with fieldmargin about their tools

 

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Q&A with fieldmargin about their tools


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fieldmargin

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Cereals Exhibitor
Location
London, UK
We're about to start a live demo of how to set up your farm on fieldmargin. Come along to see how you can import field boundaries from the RPA, set up cropping and map out additional detail such as Environmental Stewardship or Health and Safety.
 

fieldmargin

Member
Cereals Exhibitor
Location
London, UK
Lovely meeting some of you at our live demos this morning. We will be online live all day!

As well as arable farmers we are used by all kind of farmers around the world. We will shortly be starting a talk showcasing how our users around the world have been using fieldmargin on their farms. Including examples from:
  • Macadamia farming in South Africa
  • Moringa growing in Zambia
  • Pineapple growing in Panama
  • Fawn rescue in Germany
  • Daffodil growing in the Isles of Scilly
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Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
I’m beginning to think this could be our gatekeeper replacement, can I import old gatekeeper records and cropping etc ?
 
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Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Its a very tidy website but does it have nearly the amount of detail required for a complex contracting business such as yours? Stock etc?

im not sure how much I need all that complexity though, the simplicity here is the attraction

if I can export to excell then I can do all the clever stuff I like

does it have no input stock management at all ? all I really need is, delivery, pricing and balances @fieldmargin
 

fieldmargin

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Cereals Exhibitor
Location
London, UK
im not sure how much I need all that complexity though, the simplicity here is the attraction

if I can export to excell then I can do all the clever stuff I like

does it have no input stock management at all ? all I really need is, delivery, pricing and balances @fieldmargin

That's great to hear. Keeping the app quick and easy to use is a big focus for us.

No gatekeeper record import at the moment although you can attach gatekeeper pdfs to your new jobs which would be a quicker way of getting in your existing records without having to retype information. For historic cropping we have the concept of farm years so you can record the cropping for each year and setting cropping for each year is very quick: just select the crop and then click the fields you want to have with that crop. You can also see the field's previous cropping to help plan rotation.

We have stayed away from stock recording because it is very difficult to get right. You just need someone to miss adding a delivery or using a slightly different amount than was on the job because they are using up what's in store and your stock levels end up out of whack.

We are always working to improve the app to be more useful though and are very open to feedback. Why not drop me an email at [email protected] and we can discuss further?

Camilla
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
That's great to hear. Keeping the app quick and easy to use is a big focus for us.

No gatekeeper record import at the moment although you can attach gatekeeper pdfs to your new jobs which would be a quicker way of getting in your existing records without having to retype information. For historic cropping we have the concept of farm years so you can record the cropping for each year and setting cropping for each year is very quick: just select the crop and then click the fields you want to have with that crop. You can also see the field's previous cropping to help plan rotation.

We have stayed away from stock recording because it is very difficult to get right. You just need someone to miss adding a delivery or using a slightly different amount than was on the job because they are using up what's in store and your stock levels end up out of whack.

We are always working to improve the app to be more useful though and are very open to feedback. Why not drop me an email at [email protected] and we can discuss further?

Camilla

stock control is certainly a challenge but critical for assurance and runnIng contract farming businesses

gatekeeper over complicates it though, I’m sure there could be far simpler ways to deal with it, would be happy to discuss as that’s about all that’s missing for a farm business like mine to be able to make the switch to what looks like a far superior set up in pretty much all other respects
 

fieldmargin

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Cereals Exhibitor
Location
London, UK
stock control is certainly a challenge but critical for assurance and runnIng contract farming businesses

gatekeeper over complicates it though, I’m sure there could be far simpler ways to deal with it, would be happy to discuss as that’s about all that’s missing for a farm business like mine to be able to make the switch to what looks like a far superior set up in pretty much all other respects

Good to know. It's interesting to think about. The approach would probably have to be slightly different for a contracting business (presumably one central store with stock being used on jobs across lots of different farms) vs individual farms who only need to keep track of their own stock levels. Definitely worth having a chat about.
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Good to know. It's interesting to think about. The approach would probably have to be slightly different for a contracting business (presumably one central store with stock being used on jobs across lots of different farms) vs individual farms who only need to keep track of their own stock levels. Definitely worth having a chat about.

I run each farm as a separate business with its own delivery /invoice / stock balance

I don’t think it has to be complex - just simply a way to record delivery and then later add price to those deliveries - applications then draw against that balance that can be reported at any time

gatekeeper seriously over complicate this imo

could almost diy using your csv exports but would be a lot neater if it was all within the app

given stock innovatory is a assurance and hse and fire service requirement i think it’s essential really
 

fieldmargin

Member
Cereals Exhibitor
Location
London, UK
Yes, you can definitely DIY a lot of that. I actually wrote a blog post a few months ago sharing how I've done this on my farm which you might find interesting. https://blog.fieldmargin.com/2020/0...crop-type-for-farm-analysis-and-benchmarking/

Built-in costings are something that we have in our roadmap once we have improved the core reporting and work tracking functionality.

Have you had a chance to have a play with the app at all?
 

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