Recording & reporting

There is enough pressure on sheep and beef farmers to maintain productivity gains, and sustainability pressures on top of this shouldn’t come as a deterrent if you are looking to the long-term future-proofing of your business.

“Many of the discussions in our industry are focussed on sustainability expectations with global pressure from customers such as Tesco’s, Wholefoods or McDonalds or Nestle asking farmers to reduce their environmental footprint, and requiring a track record of the improvements,” says Trev founder, Scott Townshend.

Trev, the farm management recording and reporting software is being used by farmers to  achieve NZ Farm Assurance Programme (NZFAP) accreditation or NZFAP Plus for supporting the evidence of the good work onfarm which Townshend says is at the cornerstone of future-proofing farming businesses with these changing demands.

Used by many Kiwi farmers, across both dairy and sheep and beef farms, to help them document what’s happening onfarm. These farmers see it as not only helping to tick-off compliance requirements, but as improving business performance in real time.

What sets Trev apart is the  host of industry integrations, and real-time regional insights to benchmark performance against other farmers in their region.

The tool helps put operational farm data in one place, recording livestock weights, nutrients, feed and animal health events across a map or calendar view with a mobile app. Enabling farms to record data on the go, and manage and assign tasks to their teams.

When using it to make relevant strategic decisions related to onfarm efficiency, Trev farmers are finding the time it takes to record data for compliance is becoming far more valuable than just a digital track record of what’s happened onfarm.

As we start to look more into the onfarm emissions space, farm system efficiency becomes more and more important. Efficiency isn’t just the sustainability component – it is looking at wastage in the system and what profitability is potentially being left on the table. Animal efficiency (the likes of ewe-flock efficiency) feed efficiency, pasture management, farm working expenses are all become important KPIs to stay on top of. Every farming operation is different so there will be no one tool to rule them all. This generally means farm businesses end up with an ecosystem of tools and apps that can easily capture and leverage the data relating to a farm. So it’s important that Trev’s accurate livestock data and associated feeding levels – for example – can be leveraged not only in its farm management tools, but also flow into the cashflow predictions on financial platforms such as Figured, or GHG software calculations.

Whether it’s a compliance conversation, a discussion about farm environmental plans or you are looking to access sustainable lending, you can future-proof your decision making and ultimate business profitability when you are working off the best information you have available.