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 […]
Unless farmers fix their data management practices first, there is no chance of successfully deploying the new technologies under the precision farming. Trying to gather some data All new technologies hitting agriculture are based on analyzing data. But there is an old truth of all analysis: crap in, crap out. Then came artificial intelligence. Machine […]
Precision agriculture defined from a farmers perspective. We will get higher yield with less input resources. Right? That’s what the label says. Let’s consider higher yield first. I understand that the world needs more food for a growing population, and there is no more land available, so naturally, farmers need to up their game. “Give […]
Precision agriculture is a journey. Lars Petter Blikom shares his journey straddling the twin worlds of agriculture and technology. Grass mowed with precision. I am a farmer. And for the past 7 years, I have gotten to know a lot of fellow farmers, both in my home country Norway and across the world. I have […]
Read about Seth’s discovery of a fruit crop that is nutritious, climate resilient and profitable on a small scale. Seth Pascoe, Owner, Cornish Seaberry Company Farmable community member, Seth Pascoe, discovered sea buckthorn while trekking in the Himalayas. This simple encounter was the start of his journey as a sea buckthorn grower. Read on to […]
Launching Multi-location jobs. Record multiple locations for the same job on your farm, delegate to crew members and track execution live in the app. Grower-driven product development Farmable has been working with fruit and tree crop growers for a little over two years with the goal of building a farm management platform that is easy […]
Launching the next stage at Farmable: from mobile app to web portal Farmable began as a mobile app for farm management, built specifically for and by fruit and tree crop growers. The mobile app was a starting point for the platform, and we are excited to introduce the new web portal designed to make farm […]
