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In my previous posts on this subject, I wrote about how New Zealand farming organisations and farmers are attempting to improve how data flows and is used in the agricultural sector. We are addressing this with a Code of Practice for Farm Data that addresses issues of transparency and good data practices, along with a common vocabulary that […]
In my last post I discussed the progress to date on the Farm Data Code of Practice, a New Zealand initiative that is receiving a level of interest internationally. The Code of Practice is intended to support the development of trust between primary producers (farmers) and organisations that collect and manage data – and between organisations as well.
Many people will be aware that the team at Rezare Systems has been working alongside others in the New Zealand dairy and red meat sectors to support easier and more frequent interchange of farm data. Our particular focus has been on information that supports New Zealand’s pastoral agriculture industries, but much of the work has […]
In the last year a number of new people have joined the Rezare Systems team. As part of our involvement with local Universities and discussions with others in the industry, we’ve done some thinking about the sort of skills that we think are useful in building a career in commercial software development – and in […]
It’s been a couple of years now since the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Jan Wright, wrote her paper describing the fresh water nutrient challenges faced by in New Zealand (and it’s update). If you’re based in New Zealand and have not yet read it, I encourage you to do so – it is a clear and […]
In the next couple of weeks my Rezare Systems colleagues and I will be attending the MobileTECH conference in both the Gold Coast, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. The programme is full of exciting presentations on robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones), and remote sensing. It’s great to see a number of our primary sector partners […]
The need for better mobility in on-farm technologies is not new. When I started working with livestock recording and farm management tools in the early 1990s, some of the sheep breeders showed me their Toshiba and Compaq “portable” computers which they lugged out to woolsheds for recording. This stunning advance allowed them to look up […]
Can electronic livestock tags and recording make pastoral farming more efficient? In my previous articles we explored some ways that radio frequency identification tags and recording systems can be leveraged in extensive livestock farming systems:
Rezare Systems has been developing a system that can forecast the growth of pasture for any location in New Zealand. We deliver this as a wholesale service to a number of organisations, and it is currently available for both sheep and beef farmers and dairy farmers available as the Farmax Pasture Growth Forecaster.
This week I read the blog article “Why the Gender Gap Matters” by the Institute of IT Professionals TechBlog editor, Simon Eskow. The article shows that the gender gap in sciences and IT is not closing, and if anything may be widening. Internationally recognised companies like Twitter and Pinterest had female workforce membership of 10% […]
Use of Livestock EID for Benchmarking Analysis This is number three in a series of articles about practical application of EID (electronic, or radio-frequency identification of animals) in pastoral livestock farming. If you haven’t already, you may wish to read the first and second articles.
In my first post on this topic I explored some ways that people seek to apply electronic identification (EID or RFID tags) on pastoral farms. We looked at using EID to support bio-security and disease control, and for inventory management. Thanks to all those who shared that article with others.