Paddocks are the basic units of farm production and profit. It makes sense that most farmers buy computers to analyse the differences between paddocks, so that they may improve their whole farm performance. Paddock records are difficult to keep manually and almost impossible to analyse, so that most farmers have tended to keep minimal records, but all farmers know the value of the information that escapes them as a result. The history of farm software is littered with attempts to produce farmer-friendly paddock recording systems. Tight margins in primary production are generating the demand to increase productivity by fine tuning inputs and operations.

PAM is the result and the solution, and at last gives farmers one place to enter and analyse all of their farm records.

Consultant Agronomists are very well catered for and able to value add with the professional PAM data management system. Additional features include:

Generate over 400 critical farm management reports and graphs !

PAM covers ...

Cropping & Related Activities

Chemical Applications
Including associated climatic conditions, targets and batch numbers. Even when you use more than one batch number in the one operation! Automatically update your inventory. Save your special tank mixes for re-use. Easily monitor and assess herbicide resistance problems.

Cotton Production
Industry specific crop production recording.

Crop Monitoring
Record ANY monitoring activity that you decide to configure in PAM. For example: Tiller Counts, Plant Densities.

Seeding/Planting
Keep crop/varietal information, row spacing, planting rate and have your costs calculated automatically.

Fertiliser Applications
Including associated products, rates and batch numbers. Automatically update your inventory. PAM even enables you create to special fertiliser blends.

Fodder Production
Record pasture fodder production, manage your fodder crops and have your average yield automatically calculated.

Harvest Delivery
Keep detailed harvest information such as class/grade of crop and multiple monitoring items (protein, moisture etc..)

Hay Production
All farm activities are catered for, keep your hay production records including any monitoring items (like nutrition value, sugar, protein etc).

Weed Records
Keep weed population records. Record who carried out the inspection and any comments you may have.

Irrigation Records
Associated pump/water source and the application rate in mm (calculated). PAM is being successfully used in many different irrigation environments… From flood to drippers, centre pivots to channels.

Manual Tasks
Create your own manual tasks and keep a track of those tasks and costings, as well as who carried out the task. Generate various useful reports like “Who did what, when, where and for how much!”

Pests & Diseases
Record the observation/pest, reading, crop growth stage, pest growth stage as well as who carried out the observation and any comments you may have. Graph one or more pest populations to monitor results of spraying.

Staff & Contractors
You can ensure that your information is accurate by defining contract labour as well as full time staff.

Straw Production
PAM allows you keep a track of even the most specific farm practices… like straw production from stubbles. Have the income/ha automatically calculated .

Sundry Items
Sundry consumables are those items that don’t fit into the categories of Chemicals, Fertilisers, Crop Seed, Livestock Feeds and Veterinary Drugs. All sundries consumed are automatically removed from your inventory system.

Machinery Operations
Machinery operations can be associated to any other activity or recorded as a separate operation. A built in machinery cost calculator helps you assess your machinery costing. Machinery operations can be costed by Area ($/Ha) or Time ($/Hour) or by units of application ($/Tonne, $/Litre)
» Estimate the profitability of rows of trees, blocks of vines, fields of cotton, market garden beds, sugar cane blocks, paddocks or the whole farm, even before planting


» Monitor your costs/hectare in the unique “paddock season” screen as the season develops

» Monitor your chemical applications and keep an eye on your herbicide resistance

» Crop monitoring (totally user configurable)

» Sap analysis and monitoring

» Chemical records and herbicide resistance monitoring

» Irrigation log book

» Machinery detail and costing

» Soil, leaf, tissue and water tests and much more..

» Nutrient audits

Livestock Activities

Birth Records
Keep the number of offspring and the mothers mob for reporting purposes.

Supplementary Feeding
Record the feed type, how it was dispersed and have the rate per head automatically calculated.

Livestock Treatments
Drenching, Inoculating, Tagging etc.. You can customise your own treatments.

Livestock Agistments
Agisted stock away, Agisted stock return.
Agistment in (income), Agistment out (income).

Livestock Attributes
LSU, DSE, Body Weights, Conditions Scores and mob numbers.

Livestock Harvesting
Milk Production, Egg Collection, etc..

Livestock Purchases
Enter the number of head purchased, price of livestock and any associated costs.

Livestock Sales
Detailed sales information will ensure accurate and elaborate reporting.

Livestock Transfers
Simple farm to farm transfers are easy to handle.

Mating Records
Enter Mating histories of female mobs.

Livestock Movements
Easily move livestock between paddocks or paddocks and yards.

Change In Livestock Numbers
Deaths, Tally Updates, Rations, Losses etc..

Pregnancy Testing
Birthing percentage rates are available with the information from the Pregnancy Testing activity.

Wool Records
Add a shearing, then assign bales top mobs in the wool book and keep detailed information on wool quality and income for mobs.

» Gain better control and understanding of your paddock stock rates and grazing pressure

» Track your livestock’s profitability and production

» Monitor seasonal and grazing pressure effects on wool and meat production

» Paddock grazing histories and grazing pressure analysis

» Withholding periods and batch numbers for drugs

» Shearing and wool records and analysis

» Gross margin analysis on both mob and paddock basis

» Special Livestock System Configuration enables you to set up PAM to suit your needs

» Special features specifically designed for large scale Cattle Stations

Planning & Budgets

Integrated and Streamlined Crop Budgeting System

Build your planned paddock cropping strategies quickly and easily - Copy from Actuals

Generate powerful new budget specific reports, like the shopping list of all required consumables

Alter costs and income by percentages in the enhanced "Backdate costs & income system"

Create Weekly or Daily Plans - Generate Job Worksheets

Create "Spray Order" forms - With or Without "Best Management Practice" Declarations

Convert plans to actuals, budgeted activities to actuals ...or plans!! - Your choice.

Inventory

Fully integrated farm inventory system

Record suppliers, manufacturers, location, batch numbers etc..

Current stock on hand available with the click of your mouse

Rainfall
By entering your rainfall, PAM gives you:

Potential yield and water use efficiency calculations

Long term averages and growing season totals

A variety of graphs enabling you to compare season totals, relative frequencies, decile ranges and much more..

Daily Diary

Track your non farming activities

Record market prices, future prices or any numeric data!

Create reminders to ensure you attend important meetings, remember anniversaries, birthdays etc.

Fincancial Software Integration
Export critical Crop financial information to Agrimaster