17/1/2024

Bianca Agricultural Society: the digital livestock farm

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"To enhance the value of our farm, we need to optimize all the data we are given and are able to collect from fields to livestock to machinery, and with xFarm we have found a single platform where all this is possible."

We are in the company of Dario Cabianca, owner of Bianca Società Agricola in Grisignano di Zocco, a farm that, with 80 lactating animals, produces 10,000 quintals of milk a year and cultivates a hundred acres planted with cereals and fodder.

How long has the collaboration with xFarm been going on ?

We have been collaborating with xFarm for a year now. We started with the installation of the weather station, which gave us good results right away, allowing us to keep an eye on what was happening weather-wise. Now we have decided to continue with all their management systems, from monitoring machinery to recording the activities carried out in the field, so that we have a complete field notebook, with all the data on the work and operations carried out on the crops.

Why xFarm?

Because it makes it possible to record everything conveniently from a app on the phone, so with a device that we always have at our fingertips even during while we are doing the work. That way we're sure that we don't miss anything, there's no risk of procrastination and forgetting to enter data, because I'm already doing it in real time while I'm working.

What is the advantage of collecting all this data in real time?

Certainly collecting data in real time greatly simplifies the work of those who have to manage and, subsequently, control it. In addition, it allows, over the years, to obtain increasingly accurate and constantly updated statistics on the activities carried out, so that better decisions can be made regardingala business management.

Do you think digital agriculture is the future?

In recent years we have invested so much in facilities and technology, we will continue. We have just completed a new raw material storage facility, we have installed and will expand a photovoltaic system. However, what we are concerned about, as a company, is to make 100 percent use of what we already have, so bring home the maximum yield: this increase in efficiency is also possible thanks to digital.

For livestock management, however, what solution do you use?

Soon, we will also add, within our account xFarm, the module for the management of the livestock part, so as to have the complete management of the farm in a single app.

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