What does the farm management dashboard show?

This is the first page you open each morning, and where you set off to every farm screen.

What it shows

• Four numbers: total farms, active farms, pending wages and veterinary visits (30 days) — Figure 1.
• Farms by type: poultry, livestock, date palm, fruit.
• Grouped links: basics (farms, houses, workers), operations (wages, inputs, veterinary), specialised farms, and settings and reports.

A suggested daily routine

1. Record yesterday’s mortality, feed and production first.
2. Check the vaccination calendar and what is due today.
3. Look at pending wages; letting them pile up means you do not know your real cost.
4. At the end of the week open the mortality trend and farm profitability.

Notes

• The dashboard numbers are only honest if daily recording is kept up; farming is one of the sectors that depends most on that discipline.
• Train the house supervisor to enter their own numbers; a sheet keyed in at the end of the week loses half its content.
• Alerts are useless unless someone is responsible for reading them every morning.