Setup & support
Get your farmers quickly using StockManager with you to plan, manage and monitor key events on the farm. Provide guidance on how to best utilize the tool to collect data, make optimal decisions and implement them while easily maintaining compliance records.
Setup & support
Get your farmers quickly using StockManager with you to plan, manage and monitor key events on the farm. Provide guidance on how to best utilize the tool to collect data, make optimal decisions and implement them while easily maintaining compliance records.
Event assistance & outsourcing
Provide assistance or outsourcing of key livestock events using StockManager to capture event data and implement decisions. Promote a combination of vet and tech resources to provide cost effective outsourcing of common livestock events.
Feed planning
Optimal animal condition across the year is key to driving results and effective feed planning is a critical component of this. Provide your customers with guidance on how to effectively use animal data, drafting/grouping & feed planning tools to ensure animals are being fed most effectively with available resources.
Setup & support
Get your farmers quickly using StockManager with you to plan, manage and monitor key events on the farm. Provide guidance on how to best utilize the tool to collect data, make optimal decisions and implement them while easily maintaining compliance records.
Performance planning
Improving key metrics requires a combination of benchmarking to determine opportunities, effective planning, ROI analysis of improvement options and monitoring of results. The combination of StockManager and vet resources provide a powerful set of tools to help your farmers effectively achieve their goals
Event assistance & outsourcing
Provide assistance or outsourcing of key livestock events using StockManager to capture event data and implement decisions. Promote a combination of vet and tech resources to provide cost effective outsourcing of common livestock events.
Feed planning
Optimal animal condition across the year is key to driving results and effective feed planning is a critical component of this. Provide your customers with guidance on how to effectively use animal data, drafting/grouping & feed planning tools to ensure animals are being fed most effectively with available resources.
Performance planning
Improving key metrics requires a combination of benchmarking to determine opportunities, effective planning, ROI analysis of improvement options and monitoring of results. The combination of StockManager and vet resources provide a powerful set of tools to help your farmers effectively achieve their goals
About us
Necessity was the mother of StockManager. After a number of years trying to find a simple, easy way of collecting and using livestock data to make decisions, Dan was out of good options. He was discussing the problem with Jim (WWOOFing @Island Hills at the time) and they conceived the idea of leveraging a mobile device to be the "hub" for collecting, analyzing and acting on data rather than the current generation of tools which required the management of "session" .csv files between devices and systems to do this. Further, with the data standardized and synchronized to the web, farmers could easily share their data with other stakeholders in their business and the combined database could be used to provide real time benchmarking information to farmers.
Over the course of the next 5 years, Jim and Dan recruited a team of Android and Web developers to build out & test the solution. The development team members shown below are all equity owners. With their dedication, the team has combined many of the functions of a high end weigh indicator with modern mobile & cloud technology to deliver a simpler, easier to use and more cost effective solution.
Now Dan can truly understand the performance of his sheep & cattle to easily make optimal breeding/culling decisions based on fact, in real time. He can quickly see which groups of animals are getting low on feed, how much feed they require, where they can get it on the farm and for how long. In addition, all of the onerous industry compliance requirements are automated as part of daily farm work.
Our overarching goal is to provide simple, cost effective solutions for livestock farmers to help them:
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Optimize critical decisions at the point in time they need to make them
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Improve the profitability, and profit predictability, of their farms
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Identify & share best practices with other farmers
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Meet current & future market requirements while maintaining low cost producer status
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Attract younger generations to farming through technology tools and enable farm succession potential to be realised
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Minimize administrative & regulatory compliance effort and help get it done during the day
We look forward to you joining us on our journey.
Dan Shand
The Farmer
Dan leads requirements & testing. He farms Island Hills Station, a 7,000 ha sheep & beef property in North Canterbury. He is a 2014 Nuffield Scholar and sits on a number of agri-committees and advisory groups
Jim McCormick
The Analyst
Jim leads application design along with business planning. He has 25 years of experience in technology & consulting management. Jim holds a Masters in Systems Strategy & Management from Northwestern.
Gytis Jakutonis
Android Lead
Gytis leads the Android development team. He has 20 years of software development experience and holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Kaunas University of Technology.
Kirill Stepanov
Web Team
Kirill is part of the Web development team. He has 6 years of software development experience. He holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Carleton University.
Anonymous
Web Lead
Anonymous leads the Web development team. He has 14 years of experience building software for the web. He holds a B. Eng from the University of Canterbury
Robert Konsarkis
Android Team
Robert is part of the Android development team. He has 4 years of software development experience. He is finishing his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Fontys University of Applied Sciences.
Yura Laguta
Android Team
Yura is part of the Android development team. He has 6 years of software development experience. Yura holds a Masters in Computer Science from National Aerospace University Kiev, Ukraine.