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help you understand when they are feeding and
drinking. Also monitor temperatures to help fend
off disease or infections.
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Finally, an all-in-one mobile
livestock management and
tracking
The Farm4Trade application Suite offers an
integrated affordable system for all tracking
stages from; breeding, health, transporting,
selling, productivity analytics and more.
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Farm4Trade is a compelling new player entering
the livestock management tracking systems
market with a collection of integrated cloud based
mobile applications. The industry is lacking a full
supply chain management solution for livestock
productivity and the Farm4Trade Suite promises
to deliver a long awaited solution, while being
affordable and accessible from anywhere with its
cloud based structure, including a “synch later”
offline mode.
Co-founder and Veterinarian, Andrea Capobianco
Dondona has bold intentions for the project: “Our
goal is to empower farmers with the data and tools so
they can better predict and optimize their productivity,
and as a side effect perhaps help reverse rural
abandonment trend and boost local livestock
economies”. He adds “...another long term dream
is to leverage collective community contribution of
georeferenced data for research purposes to identify
patterns to improve animal health”.
The flagship Farm4Trade application, Farm
Management allows you and your staff to record
and retrieve data about your animals at one or
mild production, feeding etc. A first version
will be released by year’s end.
Smart Feeding: Auto-formulate nutrition on
a budget. Create and assign custom rations
to your animals based on your criteria
such as species and feed database, which
includes common Southern African bush-
based feeds
Marketplace and Amove, online animal
markets to offer alternative opportunities and
cost savings for animal selling/purchasing
and transport pooling. The animals records
can be accessed or transferred.
To find out when new applications are
released, Sign up to the newsletter at
Farm4trade.com
With Capobianco Dondona’s field experience
in Southern Africa and relationship with the
University of Namibia’s Agriculture faculty,
Farm4Trade has chosen to invest here first.
more farms, along with a host of other features.
Farm Management, is currently available on IOS,
Android and as a web app.
Here are some exciting highlights for upcoming
Suite apps in development, to be released over
the next year.
• Business Intelligence: Make your Farm
Management data come to life with
productivity analytics reports for pregnancy,
Late September 2019 will mark the opening of
the first Farm4Trade Café in Windhoek, Namibia,
a resource centre offering free services to
breeders and livestock farmers, while promoting
the advantages Farm4Trade applications.
Another way to meet the friendly team is at
“Windhoek Industrial and Agricultural Show” from
September 30 to October 4, 2019. Stop by the
Farm4Trade WIAS booth for a demo.
Download the Farm Management app at the
Google Play and Apple App stores, or by web
browser at Farm4trade.com.
Take control of your farm
Keep track of each animal’s unique information such as health status,
feeding, productive situation and genealogy. Easily plan, monitor
activities with just a few clicks, with our Farm Management App.
Get the Farm4Trade Farm Management App for FREE now:
Web App (via browser)
Visit our booth Sept. 30 to Oct. 4 at:
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