Pig Management Software

Agriculture is one of the largest most fragmented industries, with livestock management forming a significant part of this. Agriculture in Australia, for instance, contains the fourth largest number of small businesses (according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics). In USA, livestock and herd management in the beef ranching space alone includes about 750,000 operators with combined annual revenue of $50 billion. Only 5,000 operations have more than 500 head of cattle, making it a highly fragmented industry (Beef Cattle Ranching by First Research Inc).

While technology adoption among this group varies depending upon region, there are still a vast number of small businesses in the livestock management sector that manage their farm operations manually- both in the developed and in the developing worlds.

There is a great opportunity for SME’s to boost the productivity of their farm and agriculture-related small business through use of a few of the many quality products available on the market. With such a significant number of small businesses in this sector, this would have a massive impact on all economies globally.
		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…

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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. Within livestock farming alone- ignoring the supply chain and related agri-businesses, there are recordkeeping software products for management of cattle, dairy, sheep, horses, pigs, goats, alpacas, wildlife (eg deer) and the like. All of this software allows primary producers easily to monitor their livestock ranch operations and save precious resource.

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.

Key features of animal recordkeeping

Livestock management software, also referred to as ranch management, herd management or livestock recordkeeping software, is used to describe any software that assists in the management of livestock operations on farms or ranches. Basically, any operational, budgetry or financial, aspect of your livestock or herd operation falls into this category. The key building block of this category of software is livestock recordkeeping software, for managing animal records on the farm or ranch.

This software runs on both desktop PC’s and servers, and even extends to portable wireless handheld devices / PDA’s. This allows you to move freely about your farm while updating information directly into the back end system. You can record livestock transfers, paddock grazing information, scan electronic id’s (EID) for animals and the like- without even having to turn you PC or write anything down. And what’s more, the devices are designed for rugged farm environments.

Key features of livestock recordkeeping solutions include:

Recording mating and conceptions
Management of calving birth records
Analysing and tracking progeny
Slaughter and carcass recording and analysing
Semen and embryo inventories
Storing livestock purchases and sales
Full tracking of individual and group animals (herds / mobs)
Electronic ID (EID, NLIS and animal tags) – integrated into the software
Artificial insemination (AI) and group servings
Breed association integration
Weigh scale integration
Livestock picture storage
Milk recording
...and more

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 recordkeeping activities become much less of a drag. This saves your business essential scarce resource, particularly over time.
What’s more, by using livestock recordkeeping 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 software is right for your business?

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 hundreds of software packages on the market.

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