Compliance Paperwork Helper.
An app idea for small farms.
A tool that guides small farms through the compliance paperwork they must file each year, with checklists and reminders.
What the search found
- Who pays
- Small farm owners and farm managers
- The problem
- Small farms do not have a compliance officer. Deadlines and forms change, and the owner finds out about a filing when a notice or a fine arrives.
- The gap
- Farm management software mentions compliance reporting as one feature among many, and it is built for record keeping, not for telling a small farm which specific filings apply to them and when. The gap is jurisdiction specific deadline guidance for small farms.
- Already out there
- Farmbrite farmbrite.com
Farm management software with record keeping and reporting. It stores your records, it does not tell you which government filings you owe.
- FarmRaise farmraise.com
Software for farm programs and grants. It helps with program applications, not with recurring annual compliance deadlines.
- PcMars pcmars.com
Farm accounting software. Financial records only, no compliance calendar.
- Farmbrite farmbrite.com
- People asking for it
- r/smallfarms reddit.com
A community for commercial small holdings, where the day to day admin burden of running a small farm is discussed.
- Five reasons small farms fail reddit.com
Advises treating the farm like a business, which is exactly the admin work small farmers skip.
- r/smallfarms reddit.com
- The big assumption
- Compliance rules are local enough that a generic checklist is useless, and you cannot cover enough jurisdictions to be worth paying for.
- Test it this week
- Pick one state or country you know. Build the checklist by hand for ten small farms and charge a small fee for a reminder service before writing any software.
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