Improve traceability with electronic record keeping

Improve traceability with electronic record keeping

Read the headlines these days and it’s not hard to find something related to food safety. Consumers want to know where their food comes from and how it got there. In short, traceability has never been more important.

From planting to harvest, packing and delivery to the retail market, tracking your products is easier with electronic record keeping.

Field Manager PRO 360 tracks your operations from planting to spraying, up to harvest.

• know what was done to specific fields and crops
• keep one set of records for many purposes – processor, exporter and food safety

Field Manager Commercial lets you trace from packaging, to delivery to retail markets.

• import data from growers
• get detailed shipment reporting and order tracking  
• know customer identity, dates and who transported it

Ready or not, traceability is here and it’s only getting bigger. Armed with the right software, you can profit from the new food chain.

To learn more watch this webinar featuring Matthew Van Dijk from the FCC Management Software team.

Questions/Comments?  Share your thoughts and ask questions while connecting with other software users and FCC Management Software support staff.

Watch for upcoming posts detailing more features in Field Manager PRO, Field Manager PRO 360 and Field Manager Commercial.

I have my 360 GIS imagery. Now what do I do?

I have my 360 GIS imagery. Now what do I do?

The agriculture industry has seen a big movement towards the use of GPS receivers on tractors, combines, quads and anything else that travels on the fields. Some of these systems are used to guide machinery, others gather extensive amounts of information. Now there’s access to satellite imagery with geo-reference points that are loaded onto computers – rich with information. How is this going to help us grow better crops?

In isolation, this information isn’t going to grow better crops in the same way that doing field walks didn’t grow better crops. The biggest boost that all this information is bringing to producers is to let us manage large farming operations in a very precise way. The days of spending hours walking your fields to learn about soil composition are fading. GIS technology allows producers to use their computer monitor to walk their fields, gather valuable information and ultimately modify management practices, based on increasingly accurate information.