“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 […]
If you are a grower, you know how difficult life in the fields can be, especially if your tools are not suitable for your needs. You know how difficult it can be to change your habits and to keep up with new technologies and regulations. Lars Blikom, one of the founders of Farmable, is a […]
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 […]
Last year, the Centre for Business Management in Horticulture and Applied Research (CMBH), the Chamber of Agriculture Lower Saxony and we (Farmable) started a collaboration. Together, we want to better understand how digital tools can facilitate business management and decision making in orchard operations. As part of a practical research project, Luis Müller, research associate […]
Matt Fealy, a commercial mango and avocado grower from Australia, shares his experience piloting Farmable’s orchard management app in his horticulture business. According to Matt Fealy, “the most critical feature for any AgTech is that it’s built by a team that listens to its users”. Farmable is the latest agtech player to arrive in Australia. […]
Florian, a German fruit grower, talks about his experience with Farmable and how it differs from many traditional farm management systems. In 1938, Johannes Watzig founded a 15-hectare arable farm right on the border between Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. Today, Christoph and Florian Watzig, from the third and fourth generations respectively, run the […]
Fruit grower Dagobert Widemann provides insights into how the Farmable app supports him in his day-to-day orchard activities. Farmable users enter observations on the field directly in the Farmable App to keep an overview. As the new fruit growing season comes to an end in Europe, farmers are getting ready for their winter activities. Since […]
