When me and my colleagues started farming in 2014, we started building our own planning and documentation systems. In 2018, we founded Farmable to create a globally scalable product based on our own prototypes. Now, 8 years after starting farming, and 4 years after creating a tech startup, we can finally estimate what we were […]
Farm management software is a term that’s been around since before I started farming. New to farming in 2014, I started searching the internet for tools to manage and document my farm. This is what I would do in the industries where I had spent the past 10 years. The difference was that I found […]
“For 50 years I stirred the spray tanks with my bare hands, and drove mist blowers with open tractors. These pesticides are the reason I am so strong and healthy today" Every farmer today has heard this said by the generation before them. It’s no secret that farmers have taken lightly on farm safety and […]
Challenging farming, but digital progress Farmer using Farm Management Platform 2021 proved a challenging year for most of the farmers we talk to. It’s a little scary to see how our own farming problems at home seem to be the same all over the world; seasonal labour is hard to access, cost of fertilizers and […]
How did Farmable adapt to drive growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. June 3rd, 2020. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing restrictions which impacted travel, and overall uncertainty regarding the future, our team met to discuss what the next 12 months would look like. On the one hand, agriculture is very traditional and remains […]
Lars Petter Blikom explores the variable zoning side of precision agriculture in his seventh article in this blog series. Field variability in real life At the beginning of this blog series, I said farmers are already deploying their skills in the field with precision. Yet, as any wise person knows, there is always room for […]
What’s the basic step in getting your farm future ready? Automating documentation on your farm, says Lars Petter Blikom Did he take note of where these boxes came from? Documentation is boring. That’s the root cause of a lot of problems with documentation. Here’s what happens in real life: Farmers take a lot of mental […]
Lars Petter Blikom explores the impact of manual labour on the overall operating costs in the orchard. Harvest is time-consuming The most urgent problem to tackle in fruit, berries, and vegetable farming, is the reliance on manual labor. Over the past hundred years, mechanization of farming has enabled broadacre farmers to farm ever-increasing land areas […]
Return on investment per field. Why is it so hard? Lars Petter Blikom explores the topic of knowing ROI per field. What’s the value of all those trees? Return on investment per field. Why is it so hard? After 7 years of farming, knowing our own ROI per field seems like a holy grail. I […]
