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agCommander News - April 2nd 2025

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agCOMMANDER NEWS – April 2nd 2025

IN THIS NEWSLETTER

  • WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING – Roger’s Ramblings
  • NEW PRODUCTS
  • CERES TAG INTEGRATION
  • NEW FEATURES in agCOMMANDER  –  
    • Cropping Features
    • Cropping Module Enhancements on the Mobile App
    • Livestock Features
    • System Setup Enhancements
    • Enhancements in Other Modules
  • WHAT’S COMING SOON

WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING – Roger’s Ramblings

My heart goes out to all of the people affected by the horrific flooding events across Queensland and northern New South Wales. It’s painful and gut wrenching to think of how many livestock have been tragically lost. I know it will take a long time for some of you to recover from this. I just wish you all the best. 

Earlier this year I flew to the US for a round of meetings and presentations with our partners in the RavahTech group. We based ourselves in a very large and comfortable AirBNB in Lubbock Texas for a week and held our meetings and presentations at the Texas Tech University’s Innovation Hub at Research Park. It was a very fruitful week and a pleasure to meet up with the US based members (and Pierre, the CEO from South Africa) of the Ravah team face to face and to spend some quality time with them all. It was also very good to meet with a number of Texas farmers and to hear their stories and experiences. Big things happen in Texas! 

As you will read below, there’s plenty going on here at agCommander HQ. It’s exciting times as we build more and more integrations with more and more partners. Integrations are the biggest upside of cloud based systems. 

RavahTech will soon be launching a new website and it will describe and explain what we are planning to do in the area of helping companies with their requirement to offset their carbon footprint in order to reach net zero. There have been many hours of hard work, meetings, collaborations, etc. going into our developments to address these needs. As soon as I am able to provide you with more detail on what we are planning to do in this space, I will let you know. Stay tuned. 

I’d like to thank those of you who have sent in testimonials recently. They are greatly appreciated, very encouraging and we’ve already published some on our website! 

I hope you enjoy the rest of the newsletter and that the year turns out to be a good one for you.  
Roger Wiese
CEO

NEW PRODUCTS 

We have some good news for Ranchers, Pastoralists and Graziers. 

Due to several requests from clients and some enquiries, we are pleased to announce that we have released a dedicated Livestock, Mapping and Weather Records application called “AGC-Livestock” for Ranchers, Pastoralists & Graziers.

Our livestock systems have a long history. Initially built in 1989 for the University of Western Australia’s 8 farm stocking rate experiment, then built on through the years with the help of the Australian Agricultural Co (AACo), Stanbrokes, Pāmu Farms NZ, Hassad, Dunkeld Pastoral and many other excellent livestock operators.

AGC-Livestock comes in two levels, AGC-Livestock Gold and AGC-Livestock Platinum. Platinum includes our comprehensive Asset Manager module, Satellite Imagery, livestock budgeting, a comprehensive wool records system and more.

Both Gold & Platinum come with Herd or Mob records. Our Individual Animal Records module can be added if required with optional CERES TAG integration if required.

To see what the differences are between these two systems, check out this web page. 

If you or someone you know are interested to know more, please contact us (sales@agcommander.com) 

CERES TAG INTEGRATION

A significant enhancement to agCommander in recent months is the integration with CERES TAG. We and the CERES TAG team are very excited about this integration. In the words of CERES TAG CEO David Smith…

“Bringing on new Software Partners like agCommander offers more farmers across the world more access to CERES TAG and the critical data insights into that our devices offer into their animals and the livestock and agriculture industry. The technology that drives us and software partners like agCommander gives our customers insights into feed efficiency, methane emissions, animal movement and behaviour, and the powerful mapping systems and record keeping abilities of agCommander allows CERES TAG to continue with our mission of Connecting People with Animals. I can’t wait to continue building on this relationship with the team at agCommander.”

Please contact us (sales@agcommander.com) for more information on using CERES TAGs and how we make use of the data generated by these tags in agCommander.  

NEW FEATURES in agCOMMANDER

CROPPING MODULE FEATURES

  • Management Groups have been added to assist in speeding up the selection of lots of areas while adding jobs or work orders. You will need to enable this feature under Cropping Options. To find out more check the Knowledge Base. 
  • You can now Bulk convert Budgeted Jobs to Work Orders and specify the Proposed Starting Date and the Operator
  • You can now convert one, all or several Work Orders to Actuals via a Tools menu option on the Pending Work Orders tab
  • Templates – You can now save a Spray Job Template without any Chemicals and Fertiliser Job Templates with no Fertilisers. These “empty” templates can be set up with all the relevant spray-rig and spreader information ready fo the consumables to be quickly added to make up a record   
  • Weather Data – We now calculate Delta T for you if you have entered Temperature and Humidity – This is also happening on the Mobile App and also when you are using the Auto-Weather feature and your weather station doesn’t provide DeltaT.  
  • For US clients. There is now an importer for John Deere Operation Center grain harvest results 
  • Thanks to some requests that have come in from clients in Israel and Portugal … If you collect the GSP location of your Crop Monitoring and Scouting events on the agCommander Mobile, you will now be able to see those locations on viewing the records on the desktop application. The results of Geo-located scouting events can also be viewed on Heap Map Reports (Circles, coloured by Values) as well as the Average Results in a Thematic Map Report. The Crop Monitoring Heat Map Reports allow you to select one, all or several items and display them together. The Info Window will display the results for each Item at a GPS Coordinate

Cropping Module Enhancements on the Mobile App 

Area Selection by Map had a major overhaul making it consistent across both reporting and area selection for data entry 

All Reports can now be emailed from both Desktop and Mobile as embedded HTML

You can now search the listing of Work Orders by Reference Number and by Field name

LIVESTOCK MODULE FEATURES

  • New Map Reports: Days Since Last Grazed  and Total Days Spelled for a 12 month period
  • In Individual Animal Records: A special  “Yard Sheet” form designed to be used on a laptop in the yards. You choose a set of traits that you are going to be recording in a session in the yards. 
  • In Individual Animal Records: Improvements to speed up the searching of animals when using either a laptop or a mobile in the yards & when connected to an EID “Stick Reader” via Bluetooth.
  • In Individual Animals: A comprehensive and highly enhanced file exporting system to export animals and their traits in either CSV, XML or Fixed Width format
  • In Individual Animal Records: A quick action icon to filter by an animal’s offspring.

NEW SYSTEM SETUP FEATURES

  • Data importers have been added to automatically populate farms and fields and field maps from an export from both the John Deere Operation and CASE AFS Connect.
  • For the US, a full list of States and Counties is now built into the program and will auto populate your records based on the geo-location of your fields in the process of importing field maps.

Other Modules 

You can now add a photo or document (e.g. PDF Invoice) to an Inventory Purchase record and also to a Business Overheads record  

We now integrate with CropX weather stations. We currently have access to weather stations in the areas around Loxton, Conmurra, Robinvale, Wemen. Please contact us (sales@agcommander.com) if you are in an area nearby or if you are planning to buy a CropX weather station for your farm or farms to make sure you buy the correct model. 

You can now take photos of assets on the mobile device for the Asset Manager Pro module of agCommander.

PLEASE NOTE: All fixes and features are published in the program on the Information or About screen.

WHAT’S COMING 

Incitec Pivot Integration 

We will soon start the development work on an interface with Incitec Pivot to automate the delivery of their laboratory test results into agCommander. That development will begin very soon. 

Agronomic Insights & Precision Farming Integration

We have been working on a major integration project with a satellite imagery provider for the past 5 months. The end result of this project will add some powerful agronomy tools and crop health insights into agCommander. It’s too early to give you the full story on this. The software platform that we are integrating with are about to launch their own constellation of high resolution satellites which will improve the product immensely. That will go “live” later this year.  Stay tuned. We will provide you with all the details on this exciting development closer to release. 

Pack House Integration for Fresh Produce 

We will be drawing up the plans for another integration very soon that will have great appeal to our many market gardener clients. Again, it’s too early to give you the full story on this. Stay tuned. We will provide you with all the details on this exciting development closer to release also.

Microsoft Dynamics Integration

Another major enhancement that might appeal to agCommander Enterprise clients is our integration with Microsoft Dynamics Business Central. This project started in May 2024 and is soon to go live with one of our Enterprise clients based in South Australia. Our client is in the final stages of testing the system end to end before they go live with it across their nine business units.  

Thanks for reading!


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