This is the season to kill the wasted hours on farm administration. It’s no secret. Farmers work long hours. Across Europe, those of us working in agriculture have the longest average work week when measured against other industries. The highs and lows of these working hours are likely to have the biggest variability as well; […]
Farmers in the EU are getting frustrated. Fleets of tractors are being used to barricade roads in cities all around Europe. In France, actual manure has been shot into government buildings. At the center of these demonstrations are farmers, working to grow food for our people, but struggling to deal with both current and future […]
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 […]
The Obsthof Ainser-Widemann farm is located in Lake Constance, Germany, and the area is characterized by mild temperatures with moderate gradients. It has a subtropical microclimate, which allows the cultivation of some exotic fruits and trees. Constance counts 2,069 sunshine hours a year and is considered one of the sunniest cities in Germany. The Obsthof […]
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 […]
“I showed the auditor our Farmable PDF treatment report, and that was it. They were satisfied.”” After two years away from home, unable to travel due to the pandemic, I was finally able to return to Australia in February 2022. February in Australia is a warm and humid month; with temperatures around 34 degrees, and […]
