5 Farming Apps to Help You Manage Day-to-Day Operations

Being a successful farmer takes plenty of hands-on experience and a healthy dose of intuition, but you don’t have to go it alone. Farming apps designed to boost your farming and agriculture business can give you a leg up and help you make more informed decisions. As precision technology scales in the agricultural industry, more digital tools and apps for farmers are becoming available, enabling farm operations to achieve new levels of efficiency with mobile apps.

Here are five farming apps for agriculture that help farmers manage their operations.

The On-the-Go Troubleshooter: AgriSync

One great ag mobile app for troubleshooting issues on the fly is AgriSync. As every farmer knows, when it comes to crops and livestock, minutes matter. That’s why, when equipment breaks down or a problem arises, farmers need to be able to solve issues on the fly. AgriSync, a farming app from Deere & Company, connects farmers with expert advisors and support staff via video chat, which helps the farmer resolve the issue quickly and cost-effectively. Plus, farmers can use the AgriSync app for free.

The Small-Farm Recordkeeper: BeetClock

The designer of BeetClock knows what farmers need because he’s a small-scale vegetable farmer, too. This mobile farming app helps you manage time and labor, as well as determine the profitability of your crops. With just a few clicks, your farm crew can send accurate records directly from the field. Use that data to monitor work — from seeding to sale — to know which harvests were truly worth the investment. (BeetClock is only available for Android devices.)

The Data Tracker: BushelFarm (formerly FarmLogs)

Keeping a farm running at peak efficiency requires more than know-how and hard work. You need the ability to sort through an immense amount of information, understanding how the pieces fit together and using data to make decisions. BushelFarm (formerly FarmLogs) is a full-service platform that helps farmers store their information in order to calculate costs, manage day-to-day operations, observe conditions and enhance profitability. For instance, a farmer can store information about finances, rainfall or crop history, then have all of that information at their fingertips in the app. The result is a big-picture view of what’s happening on the farm, freeing up time and brain space for making good choices. BushelFarm is available for mobile devices as well as desktop computers.

The Weather Watcher: Meteobot

Farmers know that there’s more to success than just knowing the weather forecasts for your town or your county. What’s important is the weather in your fields. Enter the Meteobot app, which interfaces with Meteobot weather stations (that you or others nearby own) in order to give you precise agronomic indicators for precise locations. The company offers four kinds of Meteobot tools that measure conditions, as well as the app, according to your precise needs. You can even set specific field boundaries to monitor soil temperature, leaf wetness, cumulative rainfall from date of sowing and more for specific crops. Data can be refreshed as often as every 10 minutes and is stored in the cloud for later analysis. You’ll have a better handle on what to do to mitigate risk and make your farm a success.

The Crop Analyzer: Yara CheckIT

As a grower, you know there’s little time to waste when a crop starts to show signs of taking a turn for the worse. Luckily, the Yara CheckIT farming app offers an on-the-go solution for identifying potential nutrient deficiencies. Use this app in the field on your mobile device (phone or tablet) to access an extensive photographic database on which you can identify symptoms and related deficiencies and learn which fertilizers or products can be used to get your crops healthy again. 

Protect Your Operation 

Be sure that you’ve considered crop insurance and protected yourself against the inevitable risks of farming. Talk to your Farm Bureau agent today about an onsite SuperCheck® to help ensure you have the right coverage for your operation.