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It’s official, Herdwatch has been approved by the Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, to offer Calf Birth Registration and Herd Profile Synchronisation from compatible Smartphones, Tablets and Laptops/PCs. This is a momentous occasion for all Dairy and Suckler Farmers for whom Calf Birth administration has been a sore point for years. This upcoming Spring calving season though, for the first time, you will be able to register your Calves electronically when and where you chose, no more paperwork by candle light or night time chores on the auld PC!

The Herd Profile Synchronisation feature also means you won’t have to manually enter your animals into Herdwatch, a couple of clicks and all animals are “auto-magically” brought in from the National Database. As you buy or sell animals, all you have to do is sync again to get your latest Herd Profile directly from the Department’s database.

Well done to the Herdwatch Development Team on this important achievement, it wasn’t easy, in fact it was very hard, but to paraphrase JFK (badly): “We choose to offer Calf Registration and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard!” (and more importantly to make Farmers’ lives easier)

We will update again as soon as possible, we are working very hard and hope to go live just before or just after Christmas, following a final Beta phase (more on this soon, if you are interested please register here)

The Herdwatch Team

 

Congrats to the lucky iPad and Herdwatch subscription winner Jerome O’Mahony, a Farmer from West Cork. Herdwatch Competition Winner Jerome registered his interest in the new FRS Mobile Herd Manager, Herdwatch, at the FRS stand at the National Ploughing Championships last month and won the prize which was kindly sponsored by our Communications Partner O2.

 

Jerome (far right of photo) was presented with his prize by Mike Carey, local FRS Manager (centre) and Gearoid Fox, FRS Network (far left) in Bandon today.

Upon receiving his prize, Jerome commented: “With Herdwatch and my new iPad I can now bring the office to the field”

Don’t forget to follow us on www.twitter.com/herdwatch and register your interest on the website, to be in with a chance of winning 1 of 10 free 1 year subscriptions to Herdwatch when it goes live.

Beef & Dairy Farmers: The Herdwatch Team is working very hard & is on track for an upcoming release before the end of the year, so you can look forward to having “Your Herd in Your Hand” very soon!

Herdwatch has already been approved by the Department of Agriculture to automatically sync your Herd profile from the National Database, so you won’t have to enter your animals one by one, and we are now working with the Department on the Calf Registration process.

We have not yet finalised pricing, but we can already announce that Herdwatch will definitely cost less than €100 inc. VAT per year, with a very special Launch offer in store for all you “Early Adopters” out there! Our commitment to you on pricing is: ALL Herdwatch features & updates on ALL your devices, ONE annual fee, no hidden costs or multiple modules to buy!

We will be update soon, in the meantime feel free to engage with us on www.twitter.com/herdwatch or www.facebook.com/herdwatch

We are back from “The Ploughing”, where 228,000 visitors came over 3 days, and it feels like we met you all! We had an amazing response to the Herdwatch Preview, with literally thousands of farmers attending our live & interactive demos, and registering their interest in using Herdwatch when it is launched in a few weeks. A big thank you to all who came and gave us their support and feedback, we may be tired right now, but spirits are high and we feel a real boost from the reception we got in Ratheniska, Co. Laois.

To top it all off, Herdwatch was covered by many local and national newspapers recently, including the Farmers Journal, Farming Independent and Irish Examiner, but also by RTE One Television in its highlights of the Ploughing! You can watch it on our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsc6Ii-S7EI

So, watch this space for news, and follow us on Twitter and Facebook! We will update you over the next few days and weeks as we gear up to release Herdwatch “into the wild”!

The Herdwatch Team