Farm Management software may sometimes incongruous because most of the time when we think about the Farms then we start imagining fields, cattle and other plants & trees. But in the 21st century, when everything is moving towards the digital platfrom then why not our Frames and vegetation. They are one of the important parts of every country and also to those own them because they directly support the economy of any country. Also management of the farms is not a easy job becuase they consist huge portion of land dedicated to different-different kind of things such as Agriculture, Cattle Management, lives stocks and more. So, to make your search easy, we gather all top available free and Open source Farm management software to give you a helping hand in your farming…
Tambero
It is an online or web-based free farm management software that allows you to manage the crops using an areal view. The user can draw a segmented map of its land to track and record the crop history. The Tambero also includes the weather forecast system that let you know the weather condition around your farm location. It supports the Agriculture management, Cattle management (Dairy & Beef) and works for livestock management too. Because of the web-based there is no hassle of installation and can run on Windows Phone, Android, iPhone, Windows OS, Linux, and Mac Os; the only thing it needs a web browser to work. Its few features are paid and only work when you buy them.
Key features of Tambero:
- Agriculture information such as Crops, land parcels, sensors integration, farm weather forecast, precipitations record.
- Farm management
View a customized weather forecast. - Cattle management: Animal database, inseminations, milkings, health, feed rations, weighings, alerts, heat detection.
- Different livestock species: cattle, zebu cattle, goats, buffalo, sheep, camels, alpacas or llamas.
- Set up monitoring and alerts.
- Export your data to Excel files.
- Tile modern design.
- Land with maps.
- Use QR Codes to track parcels and crops.
- Summary reports.
- TO-DO list integrated with the weather forecast.
farmOS – Open source
farmOS is another web-based farm management application that completely open source and builds upon Drupal. It can be used for agricultural management, planning, and record keeping. As I said it is a free and open source (FOSS) that’s why the user can host it on its own server and also can develop further. It uses the Bootstrap framework which allows it to be fluid on all kind of displays. You can get the Demo of the FarmOS from the below-given link as well as cheaper hosting offer by them too.
Trimble
Trimble is a free farm management online platform that’s starter plan is free for farmers. Due to the web-based, the farmers can access their farm data from anywhere on any device connected to the internet. It offers three plans Farmer starter, Farmer Fit, and Farmer Pro. The free starter plan includes a single user support, custom dashboard for weather forecast and to track commodity; creates a client, farm and field records such as seeding dates and acreage, import or manually draw field boundaries, Record Yield by field (mobile only) and Map benchmarking. The cash bid prices available only in the United States. So, these are some features of the starter one and if you want a desktop farm management software with basic accounting then you need to upgrade this software to Farmer fit or pro.
Vampp Dairy Software, the most powerful and widely used management program available! Vampp maintains ALL records - production, health, breeding, vaccinations, hoof care, etc. current and historical. Vampp has also been honoured with full Canadian Quality Milk program compliant status! Enjoy the benefits of working with Vampp in your dairy operation.
- Farmbrite is an easy to use, powerful, all-in-one online farm & livestock management software platform. Complete seed-to-sale solution for crop producers & growers, cattle, goat and other agriculture operations. Start your free trial today!
- With ZipBooks free farm accounting software, you can more efficiently keep track of everything coming and going from your bank accounts, which means you can get out of your spreadsheets and get back to doing what you do best—growing the food that fuels America.
farmathand
The Farmathand has solutions for Farmers and Agronomists. It provides features like farm management, Inventory Management to track your storage, Equipment management, sales management, and Multiuser support for the collaboration of the teams to handle big lands. Just like few other mentioned software, here, this also comes in two forms one is free and the other one is paid. The free one includes Multiple Users, Field tracking, Deliveries List, calender, Calculator, Equipment, Storage and Track Contracts. The premium account comes with Crop Planner, Planned Activities, Shopping List and few more features.
Zipbooks- Free farm accounting software
Unlike the software mentioned here those for Crop management, field management, Cattle etc. this one is dedicated to the Farm accounting. Yes, the Zipbooks is not a new name in the world of accounting and they also provide a kind of farm accounting software with a free usage.
Dairy Farm Management Software
It is also a web-based software that helps farmers to maintain farms accounting online. It means you can access your farm account from anywhere using Desktop or mobile device. The ZipBooks free farm accounting software helps to track of everything coming and going from your bank accounts. It means no need to maintain long spreadsheets every time. The free plan of the Zipbooks provide features like customized unlimited invoicing and emails, unlimited vendors & customers, Add VAT, taxes, and invoice discounts, Invoice in multiple currencies, Send invoices and quotes as PDF, Add expenses, sales, transfers and other transactions, Accept credit cards and PayPal, Store and track receipts, Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet reporting, Switch between cash and accrual reporting, View company dashboard, Connect & manage 1 bank account, business Health & Invoice Quality Score and financial reporting.
Dairy Farm Accounting software, free download
AgroSense
The AgroSense is the Open source Farm management and agriculture software meant for Windows and Linux platforms. It is free to use, however, to get the live insights of the field to evaluate its conditions and other activities requires a €50 per month. It features Farm management where farmers can map their farm plots or import digital file
Agrivi
Agrivi is also a free farm management tool but only for 14 days after that, the user has to upgrade to premium account. The starter plan of the Agrivi cost around $9 per month which includes Crop management, Season plan,
Field records and input usage, Best growing practices, Inventory and warehouses, Personnel management, Machinery management, Field mapping, Current weather per field, Email notifications, Basic reports (PDF),
Mobile application (iOS, Android), Document storage (web, mobile), and Offline mode in a mobile application.
Other Useful Tools
As farmers look to become more efficient in all aspects of business, financial record keeping is an area that can be made more efficient with computer record-keeping software.
Computerizing farm financial records can help a farmer gain efficiencies and enhance financial analysis.
With a computerized, farm record-keeping system, the record keeper can use software to store information, summarize data, generate and print reports and sort transactions into categories and subcategories.
Data storage is a valuable component to a computerized system. The data entry process may take you as long as in a hand-written system, but the time saver is the summarization and report generation of monthly and year-end data.
Organized input. As in any system, good records and reports result from the data entered.
The record-keeping system can only summarize and report what you have entered. Carefully consider the way you organize data in order to optimize output and reports.
There are many components to a farm record-keeping system, including transactions and the end results you generate for your management team.
Your receipts and expenditures should be entered in a timely manner, complete with detail appropriate for the results you want to generate.
For example, you should include detail on bushels of grain sold with your grain receipts if you want to know the average price per bushel received at the end of the year.
Various types of information you can develop from a record-keeping system are: schedule F information (cash income basis), data for tax reports, enterprise records, credit accounts, financial statements (net worth, income statements, cash flow), depreciation records and farm business analysis.
Quicken. Quicken is an easy-to-use, computerized record-keeping software package that enables you to keep detailed farm financial records. Think of it as your checkbook. It can also be used to track a total of 10 different account types, including asset, liability, and all bank accounts.
Quicken enables you to keep basic cash receipts and expense records, and provides financial data to you, your tax preparer and other members of your farm management team.
Other Quicken features include easy account reconciliation and income and expense budgeting.
Quicken reports that may be generated include income statements, cash flow reports, enterprise summaries, personal and business income tax reports and others.
Although Quicken does not easily track inventories and does not allow you to keep depreciation records, inventories may be kept on a separate spreadsheet and depreciation records can (and probably should) be kept current by a tax professional.
Which version? A commonly asked question is, “Which version of Quicken should I purchase for my farm records?”
Quicken offers five different versions for 2006 – Quicken Basic, Quicken Deluxe, Quicken Premier, Quicken Home & Business and Quicken Mac.
While each product has different features, the basic program, Quicken Basic 2006, will perform most farm record-keeping tasks adequately. In most cases, the basics needed to begin your farm record keeping will not change with a newer version.
Newly updated, the Computerized Farm Record Keeping with Quicken 2006 Self-Study Manual is written for Quicken Basic 2006, and is now available as an online Ohio State University Extension bulletin at http://ohioline.osu.edu/b925/.
Another common question is whether the Quicken Home & Business version should be used for farm record keeping instead of Quicken Basic.
If your farm business requires creating customer invoices and statements and includes accounts payable and receivable, use Quicken Home & Business, which can also generate accrual-based profit and loss statements if the program is set up and used properly throughout the year.
(The author is the leader of production business management in the Ohio State University Extension’s department of agricultural, environmental and development economics.)
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