Farm Automation
Stop doing the same computer job over and over. Practical automation for agricultural businesses, from simple file processing to multi-system workflows.
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Farm automation software & web portals
Less Admin. Better Data. More Time Farming.
We build software that connects your existing systems, processes your data and automates repetitive office work.
Stop entering the same information twice
Make Your Farm Software Work Together
Stop manually moving information between spreadsheets, files and different programs. We build software that moves, processes and validates farm data automatically.
If you do it repeatedly, we can probably automate it
You Don't Need More Admin Software. You Need Less Admin.
Let your existing systems do their jobs while our software handles the repetitive work between them.
The problem
Your systems work. The gaps between them don't.
Modern farms generate information across livestock systems, field records, machinery software, spreadsheets, processor portals, accounts packages, supplier files and compliance systems. The individual programs may work perfectly well. The problem is what happens between them.
When two systems do not communicate, a person becomes the integration: exporting, copying, renaming, converting, checking and importing. That person has become the API. We remove that repetitive bridge work while keeping people focused on the work that needs judgement.
- Re-entering the same information into several systems
- Exporting CSV or Excel files and fixing columns before an import will work
- Rebuilding the same weekly or monthly report
- One person knowing a process nobody else understands
- Checking several programs to find out whether something has happened
How we solve it“Keep the systems that work. Automate the gaps between them.”
What we build
Software that moves, checks and uses your farm data
From automatic file processing to complete web portals, we build practical software around the way your farm operates.
System Integration
Your systems do not talk. We introduce them. We connect the software and files that currently need a person to move information manually.
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Farm Web Portals
Your farm information without being tied to one office PC. Give authorised users access to selected information through a secure browser-based portal.
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Reporting & Dashboards
Stop building the same report every week. Turn existing farm data into useful management information automatically.
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Bespoke Agricultural Software
When off-the-shelf does not fit, we build purpose-designed tools around the workflow your business actually needs.
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Historical Data & Migration
Years of data sit in archived spreadsheets, CSV files, desktop databases, processor reports and PDFs. We extract, clean, validate and bring it together.
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Recognise any of these?
Farm-office jobs that can run automatically
If a job is repetitive, predictable and rules-based, software can usually do it consistently. These are the kinds of workflows we automate.
Livestock
- Import movement information
- Match animal IDs between systems
- Convert livestock exports and flag missing IDs
- Prepare processor files
- Combine weights from several sources
Dairy
- Process milk data
- Combine processor information
- Import feed information and match animal records
- Produce regular reports
- Generate rule-based alerts
Arable
- Process field exports
- Consolidate input records
- Convert machine-generated files
- Validate field identifiers
- Bring together yield information
Accounts & administration
- Prepare accounting imports
- Transform invoice exports and match reference numbers
- Flag unmatched transactions
- Create scheduled exports
- Consolidate information across businesses
Compliance & reporting
- Gather information from existing sources
- Pre-populate repeated information
- Check required fields and flag what is missing
- Organise supporting documents
- Maintain audit logs
Documents & files
- Rename, categorise and archive documents by rule
- Monitor folders for expected files
- Route PDFs, statements, invoices and certificates
- Convert files into the formats other systems accept
Farm Admin Cost Calculator
Calculate the cost of repetition
Small tasks compound. Enter your own timings and hourly value to see how much time one repetitive process consumes.
- Hours a year
- 87
- Labour value a year
- £1,300
- Hours over three years
- 260
Want to know whether this process can be automated? Show us how you do it today.
Show Us What You Want to AutomateIllustration only. Time per task × frequency × people × hourly value. We never promise a fixed saving; we measure your process and show the calculation.
Small automations compound
- 0 hours a year from a 20-minute task every working day
- 0 hours over five years from that same task
- 0 hours over three years from five hours a week
- 0 minutes a day is all it takes to add up
How it works
Show us. We analyse. We build. It runs.
You do not need a specification. Show us the job exactly as it happens today and we take it from there.
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Show us
Show us the task exactly as it happens today, on a call or in a short screen recording. No technical explanation required.
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We analyse
We identify the repetitive steps, the systems and files involved, what can go wrong and where automation would help.
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We build
We develop and test the integration around your workflow, with validation and exception handling built in.
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We install
The required software is configured for your farm: local where it makes sense, cloud where it adds value.
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It runs
The process runs automatically, on a schedule, when a file arrives or on demand. You deal with exceptions only.
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We support it
Updates, compatibility maintenance, monitoring and support continue as part of your service.
Ongoing
Data & security
Local where it makes sense. Cloud where it adds value.
Not every file needs uploading somewhere just because software has a cloud component. Where a job can be completed on the farm computer, keeping it local is a real trust benefit.
Clear about your data
For every integration we explain the source, what the software does, where the result goes, what is kept, for how long and who can access it.
Minimum data, not everything
Each integration is designed around the minimum data it actually needs. We do not move a whole database because it is convenient.
Fails safely, not silently
Every important workflow has a clear state: successful, warning, failed or action required. If something goes wrong you are told.
Specific security controls
Secure authentication, encrypted communications, signed software updates, controlled user access, audit logs and regular supported updates.
Examples
All examples
What before and after looks like
Illustrative workflows, clearly labelled. Measured case studies replace them as implementations are measured.
Dairy · Farm Automation
Daily Milk Import
87 hoursEstimated annual time released (20 min × 260 days) 1 listExceptions to review instead of every row
Livestock · System Integration
Livestock Movement Exports
0Rows re-typed by hand Before submissionWhen missing IDs are caught, not after rejection
Arable · Reporting & Dashboards
Weekly Field Report
104 hoursEstimated annual time released (2 h × 52 weeks) OvernightWhen the report is ready
Honest automation
What we do and what we don't
We do
- Start with one repetitive process, not a 'digital transformation' project
- Keep the software you already know and connect it
- Check what we can and flag what needs a person
- Show payback with your figures, not a generic promise
- Tell you when software will not create a genuine benefit
We don't
- Replace systems that already do their job
- Move bad data faster without validating it
- Take people out of decisions that need judgement
- Claim the average farm saves a fixed amount
- Call simple, reliable automation 'AI' when it isn't
From the blog
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Practical reading for the farm office
Still Moving Farm Data by Hand?
If you regularly copy information between spreadsheets, farm software and online systems, there is a good chance it can run automatically. Here is how to tell.
Read postThe Human API: When a Person Becomes the Integration
When Software A does not talk to Software B, somebody exports, edits and imports. That person has become the API. Here is what to do about it.
Read postHow Many Hours Does This Spreadsheet Cost You Every Year?
A small daily task can become dozens of hours over a year. The useful question is not how long it takes once, but how often you do it.
Read postWe already have software.
Good. We are not necessarily trying to replace it. Our work often starts where your existing software stops: the manual steps between systems.
We just use Excel.
That is not automatically a problem. If the spreadsheet works, keep it. We look for the repetitive work around it that software can handle.
It only takes 20 minutes.
How often? Twenty minutes every working day is roughly 87 hours a year. Frequency matters more than how small the task feels once.
I don't want all my data in the cloud.
It does not necessarily need to be. Where technically appropriate, local software processes files directly on the farm computer. The cloud is used for licensing, configuration, updates, notifications and web access where those add value.
What if it makes a mistake?
Important workflows include validation, logging, exception handling and human approval where it matters. Software should fail safely and tell you, not silently.
Start With One Repetitive Task
Show us what you do today. We will show you what could happen automatically.
Show Us What You Want to Automate