Intro to Whole Farm Management

Whole Farm Management in a smart farming context means consolidating your agri-business information and data from across the farm into one securely stored central location.

Why is it valuable? The main value comes from data assisting management decisions by providing the insights to support on-farm operations and production activities by collecting, communicating, storing, analysing, planning and reporting important business information.

Whole Farm Management can be used to: 

• Streamline purchasing, procurement and inventory management

• Analyse financial and production data, live and historical

• Plan labour and operations

• Communicate management decisions to staff

• Automate reporting and processes such as irrigation cycles and robotic harvesting

• Assist with reporting for regulatory compliance

Overall, using data management tools can help you save time time and reduce paperwork.

There are a wide range of Whole Farm Management Systems available that you can access and operate from your desktop or your smartphone.

The Systems are designed for almost all types of single or mixed farming enterprises and can be uploaded and managed using online, cloud-based tools. Using a secure, cloud-based record of production and financial metrics make analysis and reporting much easier.

The central management of on farm records takes away a lot of the burden of manual, paper-based systems. Secure and cloud-based storage of on farm records means that you can upload, share and track key production and financial metrics.

Ideally, a well set up Whole Farm Management systems will effectively integrate data from other AgTech you have on farm.