Finally a program that takes the hassle out of paddock record-keeping and lets you spend more time in the paddock and less time in the office.
Product Features:
- Gives you a portable data-entry solution for paddock reports.
- Integrates with Trac (required) to provide you with a complete paddock and chemical record-keeping package.
- Plug your handheld device with Windows CE or Pocket PC into your desktop computer to download information such as paddocks, equipment, personnel, and supply names from Trac into Trac Mate.
- Includes and easy to use "Setup Wizard" for adding items such as paddocks, personnel, equipment, and supplies that were not previously set up in Farm Trac.
- When you are finished with Trac Mate, simply plug it into your desktop computer again and all of your paddock and chemical records in Trac are completely updated.
- Keep track of hours worked in each paddock. Simply start running the time clock in Trac Mate by clicking on go. When finished, click on stop and Trac Mate will compute the hours that each person worked in the paddock.
- Use the on-screen keyboard, or the hand-writing features of Pocket PCs for writing your information on the screen. Trac Mate has been designed to minimize the amount of required data entry. Most information is entered by selecting items with a stylus from a list of choices.
- Keeping track of equipment tach hours has never been easier. When you first start using Trac Mate, enter the starting tach hours on each piece of equipment. When you are finished in a paddock, enter the ending tach hours. Trac Mate will then carry the ending tach hours to the next paddock.
- Quickly enter the quantity of each supply used in each paddock.
- Enter paddock and weather conditions for chemical reporting.
- Trac Mate provides a flexible Notes area where you can enter miscellaneous paddock information such as notes about broken tiling, weed or insect problems, or anything that you desire.
- Pocket PC sold separately.
Additional Features when Paired with Site Mobile:
- By integrating Farm Trac Mate with Farm Site Mobile, the leading GPS mapping program, growers and agribusinesses can now create production maps that will be tied to paddock records.
- Farm Works users can now create tillage, planting, chemical, fertilizer and harvest records that are linked to maps that show where the applications have been performed.
- Farm Trac Mate utilizes "work orders", created as Crop Plans with programs such as Farm Trac Plus and Farm Site Professional, to make record keeping even easier!
- Users in the paddock can select a paddock and work order as well as see a summary of what needs to be completed.
- Once a work-order is selected, the user just hits a "Go" button when they start their application and Trac Mate will use data from any GPS receiver, (utilizing mapping features from Site Mobile,) to figure product usage and other valuable information.
- Users can enter product fills as they go which in turn will update the records and maps that are being created.
- Use the program with Site Mobile VRA for logging data from a controller or for doing variable rate application.
