Last week I read a couple of articles about how Farm Management Software (FMS) has failed to deliver success. The software category has been around for more than a decade, and lots of money has been invested, yet not a single sustainable business has emerged. So, “it’s time to call it”, they say. Naturally, I […]
Kicking off the year with our first in a series of integrations planned to make Farmable your go-to system to manage your farm data in one place. We started with the integration of weather stations. 2023 will be the year where Farmable starts working with the rest of the AgTech ecosystem. Our farm management features […]
In the northern hemisphere, this year’s farming season is coming to an end. Most crops are harvested, and farmers have switched to post-season spraying, pruning, maintenance, and other activities, setting them up for a good 2023 season. It’s also time to think about farm management practices. We know this is the time of year when […]
I didn’t become a farmer until I was 37. And up until that point, I have to admit I wasn’t even very interested in it. In the early parts of my career, I thought I wanted to reach the top of the corporate ladder. I didn’t reach the top, and now I don’t want to […]
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 […]
