The Farm Source team has a sharp focus on making farming easier through our digital products and services.
"The team aims to create smart and simple digital experiences for our farmers," Jerry Castellanos, Head of Digital Innovation, says. "Farming is hard work, but we can help make it a little easier by giving farmers digital tools which help give back their time."
At Farm Source, the Digital Innovation team envision a dynamic digital environment - a 'system of systems' - where farmers can capture information digitally and easily do their reporting and meet compliance demands. It will allow future insights for farmers to be actionable and in the moment.
"On-farm technology should work in unison and not in isolation," Jerry says. "We aim to help farmers save a lot of time and effort on trying to interpret complex graphs and filling in reports at the end of the season."
The leap from recording farm information on paper to capturing it on a digital platform is massive, so there needs to be a middle ground for adoption. A step towards this is helping farmers capture data only once.
"Farmers should only have to key in or collect information a single time, and it should feed into any system the farmer requires," Jerry says.
Farmers can now have this 'connected' digital experience as animal health information from MINDA® LIVE flows through to the digital Dairy Diary. "The connection is something that farmers have been requesting for some time, and it's just the start of farmers being able to authenticate where they want their data to go."
Agrigate makes this data sharing possible. Agrigate connects a farmer's MINDA® LIVE and Farm Source accounts, transforming the animal health data so it can easily move from MINDA® LIVE to the Dairy Diary app. "The connection allows farmers to have more time to care for their animals, the land, spend time with family, or grow the value of assets - whatever motivates them," Jerry says.
This integration is only the beginning, transferring individual animal treatment data from MINDA® LIVE to the digital Dairy Diary app. Further integrations, for example herd treatments, will be considered based on farmer demand. Please submit feedback via the app, the website or by calling the Service Centre.
Find out how to get started with Agrigate on their website agrigate.co.nz/ah-integration. It's free for farmers on the basic plan.