Wednesday, January 16, 2013

iPhone apps for farming

Farm Manager


It is an app designed by a farmer for farmers. It allows farmers to record cropping, livestock, and machinery procedures, and access this information with ease. This app gives you all the information you need, right in the palm of your hand.

Features include:
- Record full history of crops from when they are sown through to harvested
- Record chemical and fertilizer use, including type, rate, and date applied
- Keep track of livestock, with full details of stock including ear tag numbers, bloodlines, breed, and year born
- Record shearing and crutching dates, plus all drenching, dipping, and jetting details
- Keep track of machinery maintenance, including engine oil and filter changes, transmission oil and filter changes, and hydro oil changes
- Take photos of your Crops, Livestock, Paddocks and Machinery, and link them to your data

Farm Contractor



It is designed to help agricultural contractors record client and job details. It allows contractors to record full details of their procedures and email them back to the home or office to be invoiced. With more than 25 job types including Baling, Equipment Hire, Harvesting, Mulching, Mustering, Shearing, Spraying and Windrowing.This app allows you to throw away your pen and paper and reach for your iPhone.




Both apps are created by Stringybark Software in collaboration between Gareth Mizzeni, a farmer, and Scott Goldie, a developer. Together, they aim to provide simple and easy to use software products for farmers that will help them track farm information at a cheap cost. Farm Manager $16.99, Farm contractor $9.99 as of published date on this blog.

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