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
Support > Android Documentation > Application Settings > Bluetooth > Prattley Updates
Prattley Autodrafter Update Process
We have partnered with Prattley to integrate the StockManager Android tablet application. As part of this process, Prattley has updated their firmware to work with the application. Please follow the directions below to download and update the firmware version of your Prattley PAD6 control box.
1. Check to make sure that you have the correct USB cable to connect your drafter PAD6 control box to your PC computer. The picture below shows
the connectors at the ends of the cord. The one on the left is referred to as USB Type A (connects to PC) and the one on the right is referred to as
USB Type B (connects to the PAD6 control box).
2. Download the new latest firmware (12.113) to your PC. Click here to access the latest PAD6 firmware.
3. Unscrew the plastic cap off the PAD6 control box to uncover the USB Type A female plug. (Same location you connect the manual/remote)
4. Connect the battery to the PAD6 control box and confirm it has power (indicator light).
5. Connect your PC computer to the PAD6 control box using the USB cord.
6. Open the downloaded firmware file on your PC and select Run.
7. This will then prompt you to update the PAD6 on your PC
8. After you confirm, it should show a progress indicator (typically for less than a minute)9. When it is completed, it will show the following dialog
confirming the firmware has been updated.
9. Press and hold the AUTO / SETUP button on the PAD6 control box for 10 seconds. This makes the PAD6 control box available for the StockManager
tablet application to connect to via bluetooth. This only has to be done once.