Sask. app developers put farming on your phone

Two app developers from Saskatchewan are hoping to change the way farmers do business.
 
Himanshu Singh says the Farm At Hand app was created after talking to co-founder Kim Keller, who is a third-generation farmer. She had just finished harvest on the family farm near Gronlid, north of Melfort.
 
“She was telling me about how they kept of all their bins and all their inventory. There was no way to really keep track of it on your phone so we decided that we would build an app.”
 
Now farmers can track everything from bins, seed, deliveries and even the serial numbers of equipment parts.
 
Singh says producers are happy to trade their pens and notebooks for an app on their phone.
 
“They like the fact that they can all be entering information on it. Everyone on the farm can have this on their phone or their tablet and they can enter this information on the go and it keeps it in one place.”
 
He says the app collects valuable data but farmers don’t have to worry about privacy.
 
“The farmer own his or her data, their data is their data. We don’t sell that data, we don’t aggregate or share that data. It’s up to them to decide what happens with that.”
 
The free app is geared towards crop farms but Singh says it can be used for all types of farming.

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