All videos

🇦🇺 Webinar: Boosting Productivity with Technology

[Mike Handes]
My name’s Mike Handes and I’m AgriWebb country manager. Now, as people are joining for the first few minutes we’re going to start with a poll. Amber, if you could launch the poll, please. OK, fantastic, thank you Amber. We’re just asking a very quick question just to get an idea of the audience that has kindly joined us here today. As it says, we just want to know what best describes your operation; beef, sheep or mixed livestock…dairy, cropping or mixed farm. So if you can just pop your answer in the poll…hopefully everyone joining the webinar will share the results. We’ve got 115 people submitting their answer to this question, which is fantastic. Thank you very much for doing that.

Once again, my name is Mike Handes, I’m AgriWebb country manager. Thank you for joining this webinar that is being co-hosted by AgriWebb and Gallagher. The main thing that we’re going to be focusing on today is boosting productivity with technology. We’re really excited to bring you some demonstrations and descriptions of what it means to utilize the combination of the AgriWebb application and Gallagher hardware.

[Webinar Housekeeping]

Amber, can share the poll results please? All right, fantastic. So we can see those poll results now and what we see is that beef producers are making up nearly 50% of our audience today. Then sheep at 12%, mixed livestock at 19% and just a couple of dairy farmers. Welcome to the dairy farmers and 1 [farmer who is] cropping so it’s a good mix there. We’re pretty heavily skewed towards our beef producers, but all are welcome here today.

I’d like to start by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet today and pay our respects to their elders, past, present and future. I’ll be giving a welcome and introduction, then in a couple of minutes I’m going to hand it over to a couple of our AgriWebb colleagues, who will be giving an introduction to AgriWebb and a demonstration. The first of those is Josh Collins. Josh is a veteran of AgriWebb, he’s been here almost from the very beginning. He is also a second generation farmer in his own right. Joining Josh will be Ed McGeoch, who is a third generation farmer and is employed by AgriWebb as a consultant. Before that, he was actually a customer, so he and his family started as AgriWebb customers and now he works for AgriWebb.

So we’ll be hearing from Ed in a couple of guises: one, demonstrating the product and then a bit later with Q&A with me. Thirdly, we’ve got Mike Hemsley. Mike is going to be summarizing and talking about the Gallagher indicators and how they integrate with the AgriWebb software. Our final session is the Q&A. That’s where you can ask questions of the panelists. You can [ask questions] throughout the session. Use the little Q&A button at the bottom of your zoom webinar and you can pose questions in there. We’ll curate those questions throughout the webinar and pose them to the panelists at the end. If you just have a general chat then post in the chat. Feel free to do that as well.

OK, let’s move on with the content. This is Wirrealpa, which is a family farm for John Fargher, one of the AgriWebb founders. John is a 6th generation farmer from the Flinders Ranges and I show this because this farm was really the origin of AgriWebb. John was on the family farm and found that all of the data was being recorded not in a digital device, but in those little top pocket notebooks. Or [the data] was being kept in his father’s head. The challenge he faced was, how do we actually understand, gain insights and know how to make better decisions on our farm? That was really the origin for AgriWebb.

Fast forward six years and this is where we’ve now reached. We now have an end to end farm management application with AgriWebb. We’ve managed to build all the functionality that we see on the screen today, but it’s not necessarily the functionality that’s the most exciting part. Because what’s now accessible with the integration to Gallagher hardware are the insights. These insights can now show you what are the best performing livestock by breed, by sire, by vendor. What are your most productive paddocks? What you’re now able to achieve is increased productivity, which is really the theme of today’s webinar.

How you can you use a combination of technologies to boost your productivity? Before I go into the next slide, I’ve got another poll that we’d like to ask you [to answer], Amber, If you could launch that poll, please. OK, brilliant. As you’re reading that, I’ll give you a little bit of background. So what I’m keen to know is if you’re able to track and measure animals at an individual level…on an individual basis and then have insights. What do you think? Would there be a productivity boost in that scenario? Feel free to answer.

You could say, ‘well, actually, I don’t get any productivity improvement’. I hope that’s not the case, but you could say that. It might be a small amount. 1% to 2%, 2% to 5%, 5% to 10% or even more than 10%.

I’ll let that go for another 30 seconds or so before we share the results. I really wanted to put this poll in to understand from the audience what do you believe? What do you believe could be the potential performance improvements that you get if you had the ability to track, measure and then have insights into those individual animals? Thank you very much for that. Amber, if you could share the results please.

OK we can see that absolutely zero said, ‘no change’, which is great. That’s probably not that surprising if you think about it. If you’re on this webinar, you probably genuinely believe that there’s an opportunity to increase productivity. A small amount said 1% to 2%, but the majority (at 43%) said more than 10% productivity improvement by measuring animal performance individually. That is great to see. OK, now what I have here is a survey of our AgriWebb customers. We asked them, ‘what is the kind of performance improvement that you’ve seen so far?’ I will caveat this to say this was using our mob-based application. This was before we had many customers using the individual general management…but this is what they told us:

What I’ve got here is an example mixed livestock operation of 500 head of cattle and 3,000 ewes. The average improvement was 1.7% to 2% in terms of either weight gain or breeding improvement. How that carries out to this size operation at the current prices is about $62,000.

[End of Partial Transcript]

Welcome to AgriWebb

Confirm your region to continue browsing

  • Australia Australia
  • New Zealand New Zealand
  • South Africa South Africa
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom
  • United States United States