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About Vita-Vi Visici Vita-Vi is a dairy cow farm from a small town Visici, near Capljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a total of 36 employees. The farm consists of a 1000 livestock units and the farm's primary activity is cattle breeding, production of milk, meat, cheese products and cow fodder production. Vita-Vi has started farming back in 2011, in order to ensure sufficient quantities of quality fodder for their cows that are growing in number every year. They farm around 370 ha of land and the entirety of their production goes into feeding the cows. The farm grows a wide range of crops including different clover and grass mixtures and grains (triticale, barley, wheat, corn). As providing sufficient and quality fodder for their animals is extremely important to Vita-Vi farm, we are pleased and proud to say they have chosen us to help them achieve their goals. "Combining modern technology with tradition is the foundation of every top quality product. A daily mission of everyone at Vita-Vi farm is to preserve and bring the old taste and smells to your table with the help of the most modern technological processes.“ We spoke with Stipe Sakic to learn more about how Agrivi has helped them improve their farm processes. Stipe is an experienced farm manager that has been with Vita-Vi for the last year and a half, and his job position includes machinery and employee management, warehouse organization and commodities supply. With all the changes and technology advancements, he is well aware of the importance to follow agricultural trends and production best practices in order to achieve sustainable and long-term crop production.   Challenge Vita-Vi is one of those farms that has been experiencing a fast growth throughout the years, so they quickly realized they need to stay on top of new technologies in order to stay profitable and competitive on the market. To be able to support the growth, produce and sell the best meat and milk products, their main priority from the start has been to ensure that the production of quality fodder equals the demands of their animals. Due to an extensive amount of activities being performed on the farm, there was a problem with having data about the condition of their crops easily recorded and transparent. Vita-Vi conducted their data input manually, in numerous Excel sheets and different paper documents. This was a time-consuming process and their data wasn't accessible in a quick and simple manner. Therefore, Stipe wanted to find a suitable solution that would streamline their production and provide a clearer insight into production costs, tasks, and other operations across the farm, basically just keep things organized. He stumbled upon Agrivi while searching for a farm management system online. “I contacted Agrivi's Support team and within minutes I had a response followed by a full demonstration of the entire system via Skype. I then signed up for a free trial and after a few days realized that this is something that could benefit our farm greatly.“   Solution With the help of Agrivi system, Vita-Vi was able to streamline their farm processes and optimize their production. They were looking for a solution that would make their production process more simplified and organized, offer easy communication between team members, and allow to have every farm detail in one place. Similar to other farms, their goal was to improve crop quantity and quality due to the fact that everything they produce on the fields eventually ends up as cow feed, ultimately affecting the quality of milk and meat products. Agrivi has provided Vita-Vi a suitable solution that enables easy access to their data and complete crop management from seed to harvest. With just one click they can access data about their fields, see which was the most profitable crop or even keep track of employee work hours. “Agrivi provides a complete production overview and based on that we can calculate are we profitable or not. I have to point out one thing that is especially useful for our farm—the possibility to set alarms for machinery whose registration is due or is malfunctioning. This helps us manage machinery usage more efficiently and allows us to stay up-to-date with all equipment documentation.“   Results Same as with all our users, our goal with Vita-Vi farm has always been to help them overcome their crop management challenges and achieve their production goals. By using data analytics, they were able to decrease waste and increase yield, ultimately creating a more smart, efficient, and profitable farm. As explained by their farm manager Stipe, the main ways in which Agrivi has helped Vita-Vi’s farming processes include: Saving time with administration tasks Simplifying and streamlining the whole crop production process Easier tracking of all production costs and farm expenses (including fuel and pesticides consumption)   “I can no longer imagine farming without the help of a digital solution like Agrivi. I believe every serious farm business needs to follow new trends in agriculture and strive towards self-improvement in order to stay competitive on the market. Traditional methods of data collection, including pen, paper, and spreadsheets, can be time-consuming and tiresome, so if you want to be efficient and profitable, having a system like this is mandatory.“

"I found Agrivi while searching online for a farm management program. I sent a message acquiring information about the software and within minutes I had a response followed by a Skype demo. I tested the software over the next few days and decided to buy a subscription." ~ Brett Rovey Brett Rovey is a 3rd generation farmer on Rovey dairy, a family farm based in Arizona. The farm locations are spread out between Palo Verde, Buckeye, and Glendale. The Glendale location is about 3 miles from the stadium where Arizona Cardinals play. The dairy farm was started by Brett's grandfather in 1943 and was later purchased by Brett's father Paul in 1978 who started steadily growing the business from 200 cows up to 2000 cows they have today. Rovey dairy has started farming their ground in 2012, in order to ensure sufficient quantities of quality feed for their cows. They farm around 2000 acres of fields spread out across 50 miles and the entirety of their production goes into feeding the cows. The farms grow a wide range of row crops such as alfalfa, corn silage, sorghum silage, barley, sugar beets, bermudagrass, and rye. Due to an extensive amount of activities being performed on the farms at any given time, there was an issue with keeping things organized, especially due to the widespread fields which are gathered across several locations. Brett has spent time searching for a suitable solution that would streamline the production and get a much clearer insight into production costs, tasks, and other operations across the farms. "Before switching to Agrivi we used numerous amounts of excel documents and paper time sheets. This was a time-consuming process and we still lacked information we needed. Many of the tasks were not recorded timely and the output was missing valuable information.” ~ Brett Rovey Having spreadsheets and written notes at multiple locations make it impossible to share the data in an efficient way, not to mention having no real-time insight into inventory, which is the key prerequisite for efficient usage of inputs across multiple farm locations. Furthermore, having a large number of fields puts an emphasis on being on top of costs per field and crop, in order to better plan the use of inputs for the seasons to come. "We needed a program that was always available, easy to use and had the capabilities to track all cost applied to our farming operation. Some of the most important activities we track are water usage, machinery cost, and fertilizer." ~ Brett Rovey When it comes to their business, Rovey dairy puts a heavy focus on cost-effectiveness, following up with an ever growing passion for improving their farm management practices. Their goal is to improve the product quantity and quality due to the fact that everything they produce on the fields eventually ends up as cow feed, affecting the quality of milk they distribute all over the US.

Terra Optima is a professional apple growing company that cultivates several varieties of apples on 24 hectares of land. The farm has its own irrigation system and the entire surface is covered with nets, protecting the apples from hail storms. The highest percentage of the surface is covered with Golden Delicious, Fuji, Superchief and Granny Smith apples. Terra Optima invests a lot of effort in tracking everything from pruning, irrigation, fertigation, spraying, and other activities during the entire growing season. This stresses the importance of data import simplicity and easier data analysis. Terra Optima has previously relied on solutions not so greatly tailored towards agriculture, wasting a lot of time structuring data in spreadsheets and creating customized analytics and charts difficult to understand and share. "We used a classic Microsoft Office data management approach in the beginning until we found out about Agrivi and quickly transferred to your farm management system. Agrivi offers a very simple and easy way of tracking work, finances, workforce and weather alarms connected to pest and disease occurrence." ~ TerraOptima Terra Optima needed a solution which can be used not only to record and store data but also to make analyzing that data quicker and easier. What good are all the spreadsheets and notes when at the end of the day you still have to mine through them to make any sense of them, let alone create reports that make sense to your supervisors?Agrivi helped Terra Optima record relevant operations in a seamless fashion, while greatly reducing the need of sitting in front of the computer and wasting time analyzing data while there's work to be done at the farm. "Agrivi gives us the ability of quickly and easily creating a weekly, monthly or yearly report about work on our plantation, finances, income projections, as well as the ability to quickly exchange production reports with our company’s managing directors..."~ TerraOptima Terra Optima is currently working on expanding their farm with additional 10 hectares of land. Using Agrivi has helped streamline their operations and gave structure to their business from the management standpoint. A company that is growing rapidly needs partners who can provide cost-effective, value adding solutions that will help them overcome business challenges and support their growth. "All in all, Agrivi saves time and it’s very easy to use in modern apple production such as ours."~ TerraOptima