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FarmWizard - Beef Cattle Records App
To be profitable, today’s beef farming enterprise needs a recording system that not only handles the demands of cross compliance and farm assurance recording, but also allows the physical and financial performance of the cattle to be monitored. Cattle purchase prices, feeding and other associated costs must all be recorded quickly and easily if you are to find out the true profitability of your enterprise.
Orchid FarmWizard is a web-based system that lets you access your cattle records from any type of computer – PC, Mac or Tablet. You can also use your smartphone (iPhone, Android or Blackberry) to record new information while out on the farm.
Orchid FarmWizard is designed for all types of beef enterprise – suckler, rearing or finishing. It satisfies the needs of cross compliance and farm assurance inspections and handles all the number-crunching to show which animals are making you money.
Take a look at this introduction to FarmWizard video and see how easy the software is to use and update:
Orchid FarmWizard uses a simple set of screens for data entry and reporting, and can be used on PC, Mac or tablet computer like the iPad. You can also record information while on the move using your iPhone, Android, or Blackberry smartphone.
Some of the animal events that can be recorded and retrieved are:
- animal purchases and sales
- medicine treatments
- individual animal weight and age
And there’s no problem if your smartphone loses its Internet connection because it holds a set of your cattle records, which are synchronised when you connect to the Internet again.
If you don’t have a smartphone, information like price, weight, and age can be recorded and retrieved via simple text messages.
Farm Assurance & Cross Compliance RecordingOrchid FarmWizard gives you peace of mind for cross compliance checks and inspections:
- Keep ahead of BCMS deadlines – automate your passport applications and movement notifications.
- Reduce the risk of financial penalties – check for discrepancies by running a comparison check between your records and the CTS any time you choose
- Produce an official Herd Register report
Beef Farm Assurance Scheme inspections:
- Record cattle medicine purchases, animal treatments and purchased feedstuffs
- Record grassland inputs
- Perform NMax calculations
- Show a list of animals on your holding at any given time
- Orchid FarmWizard is regularly updated to handle any changes in legislation
- Suckler breeding records – record cow breeding events for the suckler herd
- Enterprise costings – you can set up per-head and per-day costs for the whole herd or selected groups. This will allow you to create what-if scenarios to calculate break-even costs over different time periods
- You can easily make use of price and weight data to analyse daily live weight gain and turnover per head
- Record carcass information from the abattoir to monitor carcass quality for your herd and individual animals
Orchid FarmWizard provides powerful “rule based” reports that let you select your required data columns and define the criteria, which will select only the animal records that you are interested in.
Compatibility with EID tagging systemsEID is beginning to be seen as an efficient way to gather animal performance data, which will allow you to make better management decisions. In conjunction with an EID scanner, FarmWizard offers the ability to integrate with Gallagher, TruTest and Iconix weighing equipment so that you can view and growth performance data.