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.
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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.
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 particular, at Rezare Systems.
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).
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 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.
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.
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.