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Smart farming is projected to see big growth in the coming years. The growing penetration of ICT, information and communication technology in farming is expected to bridge the gap between small and large-scale businesses. In countries such as Japan and China, large-scale deployment of IOT (internet of things) and smartphones have led to the swift acceptance of smart agricultural solutions. Farmnote, a Japanese based startup has been working towards agricultural innovation on a wide-scale.
Farmnote, established in 2013, offers agriculture ICT solutions and is led by Shinya Kobayashi, CEO. The company works on a philosophy of “Creating brains of agriculture in the world”. The company aims to promote productivity improvement and the efficiency of animal husbandry and dairy farming with the best-in-class technology. Their technology is based on Amazon Web Services which assures a stable and robust system.
By using technology like data analysis and UX company focuses on achieving sustainable food production. They are working towards contributing not only to the efficiency livestock business management and dairy farming but also to the sustainable earth richness. Farmnote wants to provide a better living to the people associated with agriculture by making use of cloud technology, smartphone, and social.
Farmnote offers a herd management system that can be used on a PC, tablet, and even on a smartphone. The users can manage, record, and analyze the information of cattle group from anywhere and anytime.
For managing herds, Farmnote’s powerful ‘custom list’ enables the users to search conditions, such as repeat breeders and cows past the estrus date and cows during the drug holiday period. This search condition is then displayed as a list along with the numbers of individuals left in the menu. By setting the standards of ranch one can always find a cow that matches with it.
The “note” offered by Farmnote allows entering individual information of the day. The system is easy to use and can record various activities connected with pastures such as; seeding/delivery, estrus, cattle migration and waste, and sales performance. Therefore, the need to maintain a paper register for individuals is done away with.
The system automatically organizes the breeding schedule, movement history of cattle group, calculation of DG, calculation of deposit situation, and individual information. One can also check the history from any time anywhere. So with just a simple touch on your smartphone, you have all the information about the cow.
Farmnote is the future of agriculture and can be used in all business forms. For more information about Farmnote’s state-of-art technology get in touch with the team.