Tom Fannon shares his experience with managing the cost and consumption of chemical products on the farm; to keep both compliant and profitable. Tom Fannon is the Owner and Manager at Fannon Agriculture, a 38-hectare apple and pear farm near Maidstone, Kent, UK. He didn’t grow up in a farming family or have an operation […]
This is the second part of a series on IPM. You can view the introduction to IPM in our previously available article here . Just as a recap Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a holistic approach to pest management that incorporates various methods to reduce pest populations and minimize the use of pesticides. It is […]
January 26th 2024 Over the past few years, there has been an increasing pressure to digitize farms across the world. Politicians and regulators are pushing for more reporting. Office workers in the agriculture industry are pushing for carbon initiatives. Equipment manufacturers are slowly introducing the switch to precision farming. Most people developing and talking about […]
Discover the UN Sustainable Development Goals for agriculture and learn about the perspectives, challenges, and criticisms around this ambitious plan.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
