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Since 1970 our family starting with my grandfather has had a beef farm on the mid north coast and we had a growing mound of loose paper records collecting in desk drawers.
I felt there had to be a better way of keeping our records, so I started researching existing livestock management systems.
However, I found these to be overly complicated, hard to use, and expensive.
So in 2017 I developed Ferndale Livestock Management to help my father compile our herds information to produce a complete picture of our herd and give us greater undertanding what our heard was doing and what area's we could improve.
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My own system was simple and easy to use while still containing all the information we required to track our cattle numbers, breeding history, and treatments.
My father was hesitant at first to go from his loose paper system to a digital one, but after using it for only a few short months, he wonders how he ever survived without it and has never looked back.
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In 2022 my wife Lauren and I started to run the farm,
Ferndale Livestock Management has allowed our farm to continue improve its productivity as it makes record keeping easy and allows accurate information to be at our fingertips whether we are in the paddock, the yards, or the office.
- Joshua Bilson
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