The A-K of Australian production based agtech products you should know about.

7 min readMay 6, 2016

The A-K of Australian production based AgTech products you should know about has been built to help farmers discover new technology to manage the farm.

The number of products currently available for farmers is is growing rapidly with new technology options set to increase as a result of the Australian government’s ideas boom despite its lack of focus on Agtech as highlighted by Matthew Pryor CTO at @obsrvnt.

The Digital Farmer is helping farmers successfully introduce new technology into their business by highlighting benefits and features in a simple and easy to follow format.

Innovative technology companies are plowing on with building some great agtech products that are allowing the farmer to have more visibility over their on-farm metrics.

Production based technology aims to help farmers with farm management, agronomy, inventory management, precision-ag, livestock management and farm mapping. Categories other than production include marketing, financial, office, community and environmental.

We list the below production based products on The Digital Farmer in much more detail.

AgData
AgDNA® is a powerful mobile farming platform for the Agriculture industry. AgDNA features include farm planning, record keeping, boundary mapping, worked area mapping, live equipment tracking, scouting observations, communication tools, data sharing and more.
Twitter: @MyAgDNA
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/agdna

AgDroid from Farmscan Ag
Manage your farms & fields like never before with AgDroid the ultimate portable productivity tool for agriculture, farming, forestry and more from Farmscan Ag.
Twitter: @AgDroid
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/agdroid

Agri360
Agri360 is cloud-based farm management software, focused on farm records, team collaboration and task management. A few farmers came to us and told us what their biggest challenges were. So we built Agri360 to solve these challenges.
Twitter: @Agri360
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/agri360

AgriTrack
AgriTrack provides a comprehensive live tracking solution that allows you to instantly increase the efficiency, productivity, and ultimately the profitability of your farming operations.
Twitter: @AgriTrackAU
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/agritrack

AgriWebb
AgriTrack provides a comprehensive live tracking solution that allows you to instantly increase the efficiency, productivity, and ultimately the profitability of your farming operations.
Twitter: @AgriWebb
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/agriwebb-notebook

Agworld
Take control and grow your agribusiness with Agworld’s farm apps that allow you to map, plan your season, collect data, run your reports and connect with your agronomist from anywhere.
Twitter: @Agworld
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/agworld

Allflex RS420
The RS420 app connects wirelessly to the Allflex RS420 stick reader. It allows you to very easily transfer session data from the reader and record it to the NLIS (Australia) and NAIT (New Zealand) animals database.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/allflex-rs420

Angus
Angus Australia supports its members by providing the most up to date information on each registered animal including Estimated Breeding Values (EBVS), pedigrees and lots of other data.
Twitter: @Angusaustralia
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/angus

Back Paddock Advisor
Easy to use software for quick and accurate farm planning, recording and reporting. Back Paddock Adviser is an easy to use farm management tool for production planning at the business, farm, paddock and management zone levels.
Twitter: @Angusaustralia
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/angus

Back Paddock Advisor
Easy to use software for quick and accurate farm planning, recording and reporting. Back Paddock Adviser is an easy to use farm management tool for production planning at the business, farm, paddock and management zone levels.
Twitter: @BackPaddockCo
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/back-paddock-advisor

Back Paddock Manager
Manager takes the guesswork out of planning all farm inputs, operations and outputs.
Twitter: @BackPaddockCo
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/back-paddock-manager

Back Paddock SoilMate
Back Paddock SoilMate is Australia’s leading agronomic decision-support solution, combining powerful PC and mobile device-based applications with training and consulting services, as well as Data-Centre based enterprise management.
Twitter: @BackPaddockCo
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/back-paddock-soilmate

Body Condition Scoring Tool from Dairy Australia
If you are a dairy farmer using a seasonal or split calving system who wants to take greater control of your herd’s feeding and nutrition, then this app is for you.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/body-condition-scoring-tool

Bull Requirements post AB
This app will calculate the approximate expected number of cows that are not pregnant at the end of the AB period, and then the minimum number of bulls required at any one time to cover them at 1:25. You can share the results in an email, as an SMS or copy them to the clipboard.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/bull-requirements-post-ab

CSBP Sampling Pro
Submit your CSBP Soil and Plant sample at the tap of a button.
Twitter: @CSBPfertilisers
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/csbp-sampling-pro

Connected Farm Field
The Connected Farm™ Field app allows farmers to enter detailed field records about their farming operations using a smartphone or tablet.
Twitter: @Trimble_Ag
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/connected-farm-field

Connected Farm Fleet
Monitor your entire fleet from any location with a smartphone or tablet. The Connected Farm™ fleet app is a powerful management tool for viewing live equipment GPS locations and current status information in order to increase fleet efficiency and productivity.
Twitter: @Trimble_Ag
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/connected-farm-fleet

Connected Farm Irrigate
Remotely monitor and control your Trimble® Irrigate-IQ™ precision irrigation solution in real-time using the Connected Farm™ Irrigate app. By using the app, you can manage multiple irrigators and reduce trips to the field.
Twitter: @Trimble_Ag
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/connected-farm-irrigate

Connected Farm Scout
Change the way you use GPS for field mapping and scouting applications in agriculture. Trimble’s Connected Farm™ scout app uses your phone’s GPS for mapping field boundaries, marking flags, and entering scouting information for points, lines, and polygon areas.
Twitter: @Trimble_Ag
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/connected-farm-scout

Countdown Mastitis Toolkit
Dairy Australia has developed a tailored app to help manage mastitis control for our herds.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/countdown-mastitis-toolkit

Data-Link by Tru Test
The Tru-Test Data Link app provides easy data transfer from your 5000 series or Eziweigh7i Weigh Scale Indicator.
Twitter: @Trutest_US_Can
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/data-link

Drought Feed Calculator
The Drought Feed Calculator is an essential tool for sheep and cattle producers dealing with drought and dry seasons.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/drought-feed-calculator

FarmGraze
Measure, record and manage your grazing platform with farmGRAZE. Use this app to save money on unnecessary feed and fertilizer and save time on your farm.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/farmgraze

fence.farm
fence.farm is a revolutionary fence mapping tool that takes the brain work out of designing and costing farm fences.
Twitter: @FenceFarm
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/fencefarm

F-Track Live by Farm Apps
F-Track, is the complete on-the-go farm management app that lets multiple users record and access all their farm information live, wherever they want.
Twitter: @FarmApps
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/f-track-live

Farm Contractor by Stringy Bark Software
Farm Contractor is designed to help agricultural contractors record client and job details. It allows contractors to record full details of their procedures and email them back to the home or office to be invoiced.
Twitter: @StringyBarkSoft
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/f-track-live

Farm Manager by Stringy Bark Software
Farm manager is an app designed by a farmer for farmers. It allows farmers to record cropping, livestock, and machinery procedures, and access this information with ease.
Twitter: @StringyBarkSoft
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/farm-manager

Farm Records
Farm Records is a scalable, enterprise grade, platform and business application. The mobile app works in conjunction with the Farm Records website, and is for use by farmers, consultants, agribusiness, research organisations and government.
Twitter: @FarmRecordsApp
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/farm-records

Farm At Hand
Built by farmers for farmers, Farm At Hand is your complete farm management app.
Twitter: @FarmAtHand
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/farm-at-hand

Farm Boss by Bale Twine
Farmboss helps with your budgeting, your reporting, your calculations, your breeding, your feeding, your stock and a heap of handy stuff, all in the one app.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/farmboss

FarmIQ
FarmIQ Farm Management System, the sophisticated application built to deliver an all of farm view of your livestock practice, land usage and on-farm business operations.
http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/farmiq

Farmware
Farmware is an app for smartphones to manage and record your farm data.
Twitter: @Farmware
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/farmware

Field peas: The Ute Guide
Field peas: The Ute Guide app will assist in recognising disease, insect attack and poor nutrition symptoms in field pea crops. Also contains best practice in growing and marketing the crop.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/field-peas-the-ute-guide

GRDC Lentils Ute Guide
Field peas: The Lentils Ute Guide app is designed to assist in the recognition of symptoms including those of disease, insect attack, and poor nutrition in lentil crops, as well as identifying critical issues of best practice in growing and marketing the crop.
http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/grdc-lentils-ute-guide

Good Bulls by Dairy Australia
The Good Bulls app puts the power of herd improvement in the palm of your hand.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/good-bulls

Google’s My Maps
Google My Maps allows you to utilise all the features of Google Maps but also with the ability to create custom maps to securely share online.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/google-my-maps

Grazing Calculator
A quick and simple way to calculate a number of common grazing related equations used by dairy and beef farmers.
Twitter: @GrazeCalc
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/grazing-calculator

INSolutions
INSolutions is an add-on to the successful Internet Solutions web-based service that has been developed in Australia by the Agricultural Business Research Institute ABRI for application within the livestock industry.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/insolutions

Insect ID: The Ute Guide
Insect ID: The Ute Guide is a comprehensive reference guide for insect pests commonly affecting broadacre crops and growers across Australia, and includes the beneficial insects that may help to control them.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/insect-id-the-ute-guide

iCalve
Calving Records, Treatment Records, Herd Data, etc; iCalve has everything for keeping track of your cattle operation.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/icalve

Name: iHerd
iHerd has been designed to simplify the herd management process for station owners and managers around the world.
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/iherd

iPaddockSpray
iPaddockSpray on your iPad manages the entire farm spraying operation, from paddock planning, right through to tank mixing and record management.
Twitter: @ipaddockapps
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/ipaddockspray

iPaddockYield
iPaddockYield on your iPhone and iPad is a powerful decision making tool that will increase farm profits, by providing live forecasts of your realistic yield potential during the growing season.
Twitter: @ipaddockapps
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/ipaddockyield

JDLink™
Take your operation to the next level of productivity and efficiency without leaving the office. Manage your operation in real-time without being in the cab.
Twitter: @JohnDeere
URL: http://www.thedigitalfarmer.com.au/product/jdlink

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The A-K of Australian production based agtech products you should know about.

Written by The Digital Farmer