Pig Management Software
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Imagine if ranchers and livestock farmers could gain better insights
into their businesses, improve sales through more focus on the key
areas of their businesses, track stock movements automatically, store
breeding and genealogy data in real time, monitor animal productivity
metrics, track cull information and the like in a cost effective way.
This would allow them to focus on what they do best, running their farm
or stock yard rather than tedious administrative activities. |
Well, the good news is you can! By finding the right software, your
business can achieve a dramatic improvement in its performance. And
what’s more, there are quality solutions out there that will not
stretch your wallet, and that’s good for everyone…
Types of livestock management software
Whether you are
running a cattle ranch in the USA, a dairy farm in New Zealand or a
plantation in South America, there is software specifically tailored to
your operation. Just within livestock farming alone (ignoring the
supply chain and related agri-businesses), there are software products
for management of cattle, dairy, sheep, horses, pigs, goats, alpacas,
wildlife (eg deer) and the like. Extending this further, for farmers
there are full agri-business management software packages that handle
livestock recordkeeping, farm accounting and budgeting, field mapping,
crop recordkeeping, weather management, chemicals management and the
like.
Typical types of livestock management software include:
- Livestock recordkeeping software
– for enterprise stock management of herds and individual animals:
cattle, dairy, pig, horses / equine, deer / wildlife, alpaca, sheep, etc
- Crop or horticulture recordkeeping software – for management of crops, pastures, land usage, orchards and the like
- Land or field mapping software – to manage your land in real time using mobile computer technologies
- Weather and rainfall software – for monitoring and managing natural conditions and how to respond to these strategically
- Feed management software – for livestock feed management
- Plant and equipment software – to manage assets, buildings and equipment in the agri industry
- Paddock and pasture management software
- Quality
management software – tailored to ensuring quality standards are met
both in primary production and in the agriculture supply chain
- Precision farming software – GPS and guidance software for farm vehicles
- Agri-business management software – a combination of a number of the above packages in one and
- Aquaculture and fisheries management software – to manage your fishing or aqua business
- ... and more
It is also useful to distinguish standalone or separate software
(more often used by small business) from solutions that integrate a
range of modules into a combined software package. In addition, one can
separate online / web based applications from packaged software
products installed on your own PC / server.
How does livestock software benefit you?
The benefits of
finding software that is designed specifically for your business- that
speaks your language and meets your specific operational requirements-
are enumerable. This is most evident in small business software, where
significant value is gained from this extensive functionality at a good
value for money price point.
By freeing up time taken up by typically arduous manual
administration tasks, you give yourself more time to focus on ‘working
on the business’ – planning the most valuable activities to spend your
time on. This improves your decision making significantly, as errors
are eliminated and day to day activities become much less of a drag.
This saves your business essential scarce resource, particularly over
time.
What’s more, by using livestock software, you introduce visibility
of your business’ operations. You can easily and quickly see all daily
transactions, assess productivity metrics, track budgets, check stock
levels (eg fertilizer), etc at the push of a button. Moreover, the task
of capturing this data in the system is minimized. All of this amounts
to a much more efficiently run operation- with less time and effort
from you! Surely your time is important enough to you...
Through the key reporting, graphing and integration features of
most systems, management reporting can also be done at the click of a
button. Not only can you generate reports immediately for your
accountant and for your own internal purposes, but you are able to
export data and generate reportsw for the necessary enterprise / stock
regulatory bodies, such as Breed societies.
Which agricultural software is right for me?
Regardless of your industry, size, or specific situation there is almost certainly a product out there that’s right for you. The challenge is finding that ideal choice amongst the tens of thousands of software packages on the market.
That’s where
Software Shortlist comes in. We aim to help you find the right software for your business.
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A few of the many specialist agricultural software products that
SoftwareShortlist lists on our website include Farm Works (Stock, Mate,
Site, Funds); Agritec (Porcitec, Vaquitec, Ovitec, Cunitec); Kingswood
Computing (Herd, Crop, Sheep), Practical Systems (Stockbook, Farmbook,
Cashbook, Stockhand); Plan-A-Head; CRS Software (Cashmanager Rural,
Livestock, Dairy); eAgribusiness (iFarm); Agdata (Phoenix); Lion Edge
Technologies (Ranch Manager); etc.
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