Farm Labor Task Board.
An app idea for small farms.
A simple task board for farm managers to assign daily jobs to workers, with photo proof of completion.
What the search found
- Who pays
- Farm managers on small farms
- The problem
- Daily jobs get assigned by whiteboard and phone calls. The manager cannot see what is done until they walk the whole farm, and workers get told twice or not at all.
- The gap
- FieldClock and Farmbrite cover time tracking and task assignment for larger crews. The gap is the very small crew: two to ten workers, no HR system, no time clock, just today's jobs and a photo when done.
- Already out there
- FieldClock fieldclock.com
Farm labor tracking app for time and productivity. Built around labor compliance and payroll data, heavier than a small farm needs.
- Farmbrite Teamwork farmbrite.com
Assign tasks and track progress in real time. It is one module inside a full farm management suite, so the buyer has to adopt the whole system.
- FieldClock fieldclock.com
- People asking for it
- Someone tell me to give it up reddit.com
Farmers discuss how owners and managers carry the load over hired hands, which is the coordination problem in the buyer's own words.
- Someone tell me to give it up reddit.com
- The big assumption
- Small farm workers will use a phone app in the field, and the manager will pay for it rather than keep the whiteboard.
- Test it this week
- Set up a shared task list with photo replies for one farm for two weeks and watch whether workers post photos without being chased.
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