Case Study: Obstbau Watzig streamlines fruit farm digitisation with Farmable

How it differs from many traditional farm management systems

Obstbau Watzig, a German fruit farm, faced a significant challenge in efficiently tracking and documenting field work across its 60+ hectares of orchards. Managing a team that grew to 50 people during peak season, co-manager Florian Watzig needed a better way to know which fields had been sprayed, thinned, or harvested without resorting to inefficient manual methods like shared spreadsheets. He turned to Farmable to find a digital solution for real-time oversight.

The solution from Farmable involved a flexible farm management app that allowed Obstbau Watzig to map fields according to their specific crop protection strategy, not pre-drawn areas. Florian set up his equipment and products within the app and used the "Jobs" feature to schedule and track all spraying and other work. This implementation resulted in over 300 jobs being created and tracked, saving significant time, particularly through features like multi-location jobs. The setup also paves the way for future cost and profitability analysis per crop variety.

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