Medicine Scanner adds to Herdwatch success
MEETING the practical needs of busy farmers to help keep farm records up to date, which is so vital for compliance within the sector, the Farm Relief Service launched ‘Herdwatch’.
The app, which can be operated on any iPhone, is used for a vast range of record keeping and registrations, ranging from uploading calf registrations, to keeping breeding records, management records, and meeting the compliance of the Department of Agriculture on movements of livestock.
The app is currently being used on more than 8,000 farms with add-on services to meet the individual needs available at a reasonable cost.
The latest addition to the service is the Farm Medicine Scanner, which received the overall award in the National Dairy Show Innovation Awards.
Co Clare native Gearoid Kenny of Farm Relief Services accepted the award.
Afterwards he explained that the additional service has turned the app into a scanner via the iPhone with multi-purpose applications ranging from reading the barcode on medicines to show the batch number and withdrawal period etc, to uploading the details to the farm medicine records to meet Bord Bia and Department of Agriculture requirements.
Scanning the QR code can provide a further range of information on the product.
In addition it can also be used to scan and record tag numbers without the necessity for any additional equipment and can record the scanned numbers for the farm records.