How to manage your farm better with your phone

Today, hands-on management style is being replaced by hands-off management styles, but with in-built controls.

Digital platforms have enabled more operational visibility and controls. Inclusivity management can also help make long distance farming possible.

Management becomes very hard if you want to control everything. Like in every other business, there are some key areas that you must have visibility and control.

Areas of Control Purchases:

Ensure all that is supposed to be bought for the farm is bought and delivered.

Have direct access to suppliers and the best prices offered. Pay directly to trusted suppliers and have the goods delivered, possibly by the supplier, to the farm.

Ensure all materials or supplies to the farm are of the right quality.

Otherwise, you will be giving money to purchase one thing and something different is brought to the farm.

Don’t trust your farm managers too much. Do not take every word from your managers as gospel truth. On the farm, have physical controls or security at the farm to ensure all that is bought and brought is not stolen or removed without authorisation.

Also ensure proper use of materials or inputs bought. Have some performance numbers or indicators. How much is each chicken or cow expected to eat in a day? How many days is that quantity supplied expected to last?

When you don’t have in-farm controls, materials are stolen or misused, your livestock is underfed, or not taken care of as they should, and inputs are blamed for inefficacy.


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