{"id":8296,"date":"2018-06-01T09:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herdwatch.com\/farmer-review-moving-on-with-your-farm-management-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-01T09:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T09:17:00","slug":"farmer-review-moving-on-with-your-farm-management-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herdwatch.com\/en-ie\/farmer-review-moving-on-with-your-farm-management-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer Review: Moving on with your Farm management."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pat Feehily is a Suckler and Sheep farmer from Ballydangan, Co. Roscommon. He keeps a herd of pedigree and commercial Limousines. During the winter months Pat also buys in 200 fattening lambs. He finds that the lambs are great for cleaning up pastures and keeping weeds under control. Pat, like a lot of other farmers, would not consider himself to be great with technology. However, he is always trying to improve his farm management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Pat says himself: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“You need to be on top of your game, to get the rewards from farming!<\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Two years ago, he heard about Herdwatch, an app that could help to do just that, and eliminate his farm compliance paperwork. He decided to sign-up and move on with his farm management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to stay on top of farm records.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Keeping on top of medicine and dosing records can be very difficult for a mixed farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Pat is dosing a group of cattle or sheep, he just puts what he did into Herdwatch there and then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs soon<\/em> as I buy an animal<\/em> remedy, I just put it into Herdwatch on the phone. <\/em>It\u2019s done and dusted then.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once it\u2019s in Herdwatch, he is compliant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Pat Feehily using the Herdwatch app on his mixed cattle and sheep farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Read More about how Herdwatch can help with Bord Bia Paperwork\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Herd Information at Your Fingertips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Then Pat told us how it\u2019s often the simple things with Herdwatch that help him the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s great when I\u2019m changing cows, if I\u2019m wondering what calf belongs to what cow, it\u2019s all there in my phone.<\/em> <\/strong>If I\u2019m thinking of selling a group of lambs, I can just check the phone to make sure they are not in withdrawal, I know there and then\u201d. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Farm Management in One Place<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pat also uses Herdwatch to register his calves, record his breeding information, spraying and also for weight recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s like a supermarket! One app does it all, there is no more recording in a load of different books.<\/em>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And knowing that he is compliant is so important to Pat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cYou don\u2019t feel a cross compliance inspection or Quality Assurance audit creeping up on you.<\/em>  The fact that all the information can be retrieved in seconds, and all I need to do is print off a few reports at audit time, takes all the stress of the inspection away.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0Learn more about Herdwatch for Suckler Farmers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can try Herdwatch completely free. No payment details required!<\/p>\n\n\n