Traditionally, farmers have always relied on their own experiential knowledge, local wisdom, and occasional consultations with agricultural experts to inform their decisions. However, running a successful agribusiness is not easy. To be able to handle the demands of stringent regulations, labor shortages, climate change impacts while maintaining profitability and high yields each season, farmers today can’t rely only on traditional knowledge.
Although many farmers use some kind of digital solution or application that helps them track and record their farm operations, still most of them record everything manually, don’t know how to efficiently plan their farm operations and monitor executed work, track cost for each production part, etc.
What is a solution to those challenges? One centralized digital platform where farmers can efficiently manage all their farm work and have real-time insights into every part of the production process.
Let’s go through some concrete examples.
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Challenge: Overwhelming and time-consuming paperwork
Many farmers deal with the amount of paperwork in planning their season, tracking resources used and their costs, budget, and workers allocation. Editing complicated spreadsheets, entering the same data twice, or even using multiple apps to manage different types of data inputs is most certainly a time-consuming and overwhelming task.
Solution: AGRIVI Farm Management Software is a perfect solution for that. With AGRIVI farmers get one central platform for all their agricultural data and process management. Instead of managing farm production in various spreadsheets and papers, with AGRIVI they can have all production data in one place, easily accessible from any device and at any time. That way farmers don’t have to waste their time manually writing the data and they can easily access all their records in just a few clicks. In the end, by storing the data in the cloud, there is no risk that some valuable information will be lost, and documents can be organized based on a farmer’s need.
Read more: 7 Key Benefits of Farm Management Software
Challenge: Reducing noise in the communication with workers
Every farm manager wants their team to be at the top of their to-do lists and be maximally productive. Managing seasonal workers during high season with no efficient way to assign work orders, is usually very difficult for most farmers. Miscommunication and noise often occur, which could be frustrating and inefficient at a time when precise work, such as harvesting or other field activity, needs to be performed. Moreover, workers who perform highly delicate activities such as spraying or fertilizing can potentially overcalculate the amount they need to use or parcel where they need to use it which could potentially damage the yield.
Solution: Planning and tracking all the activities through the AGRIVI Farm Management Software make more efficient and better communication with workers regarding the execution of work orders. Plant protection is a good example of this. By opening a work order in orchard protection, a farm manager can provide precise instructions on activities that have to be performed. In AGRIVI Work Order module, he can enter which workers are in charge of implementing orchard protection, the exact equipment they have to use in the process, the amount of pest control products, and the amount of water they have to use. Moreover, to give even more precise instructions, a farm manager can enter additional instructions based on which protection product will be implemented, and even attach field images. In this way, his workers can perform their daily tasks precisely and efficiently, and he can eventually track their productivity.
Read more: AGRIVI’s Work Orders Module: Streamline Tasks, Boost Productivity, and Digitize Your Workflow
Challenge: Not being able to track the cost for each part of the production
One of the biggest challenges for farmers is not knowing where all their costs are. For example, they buy a certain amount of fertilizer for a season and use some of it, and some would be left in the warehouse. Without a real-time overview of their stock inventory, it is very hard to calculate what exactly their cost is for each item during the season. Then they perform a lot of guesswork to make a calculation. This can easily affect their profitability in the end, especially in challenging times like today when cost hikes are influencing the most input prices.
Solution: AGRIVI Farm Management Software is a go-to solution for planning, tracking, and analyzing budget and costs for each part of the crop production. The software provides a real-time overview of the planned and actual budget at any time. With AGRIVI farmers can plan a season in terms of usage of farm materials and costs per item, crop, and area, and register daily activities which enables them to track the total production cost as well as stock inventory. Thus, farmers can see what was used, what is the cost, and what is left, forecast itineraries for next season based on that data, as well as analyze their overall budget flow and profitability.
Read more: 5 Ways to Make Your Farm Work Management Less Stressful and More Efficient
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Digitalization of farm production is the best way to ensure both productive and sustainable farm production. Experience shows that by implementing AGRIVI farmers increase profit margin by up to 15% through farm operation optimization, and record a 13% average yield increase. AGRIVI digital agriculture solution provides everything you need to get value from farm data, manage risks, and maximize efficiency and profitability.
Are these challenges familiar to you? Contact us and try a demo to see how AGRIVI helps you solve your farm work management problems.
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