With various jobs to do around the farm, projects to plan and stuff to make sense of, we've tried out a few different apps and digital services, and stuck with some. Be really interested to hear what other farms are using.
We started out with a lot of historical info for the farm in Gatekeeper. It sort of has its own logic, but it has caused us headaches at times. We still use it for stock control and to keep fieldwork records, but we've looked to 'friendlier' and mobile-friendly alternatives.
We love @thelandapp. This mapping software allowed us to design our own Countryside Stewardship scheme with brilliant tools to edit fields and features, and we still use it for planning various projects. Imports @Ruralpay mapping data.
We've started managing field work in @fieldmargin - great mobile app and improving all the time, it gives us a bird's eye view of farm work. Also imports RPA mapping data though we actually imported all the field sections we designed in the Land App.
The @onesoilplatform is a free app that provides NDVI imagery showing vegetative growth - along with walking the field we can see imagery, often just days old, that shows us the health of crops and green cover.
We use @what3words for sharing location data with contractors and emergency services if we ever need it. We used W3W to record notes and management prescriptions for a survey of our hedgerows.
Other than that, we're keeping track of small jobs around the farmyard and office with @Microsoft To Do, and, every so often, bits of paper. We still meet once a week as a team to chat about work. How are you getting organised?
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