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Fairport News
Historical FTI news articles and PRESS RELEASES
Download PDF Version of this newsletter - Get PDF Viewer hereJUNE - JULY 2007
IN THIS ISSUE
» Welcome
» Rogers Ramblings
» PAM News There's lots !!!
» Fairport Web Site News
» Pasture Watch News
» Max Pro - Re-Released
» Dealer News
» FarmTek Australia
» AgIT
» Boothtech
» In Closing
| Welcome |
Once again we welcome all our new and old clients and especially those of you reading the Fairport News for the first time!
| Rogers Ramblings |
The financial year brought mixed results with the
drought here and in South Africa and the downturn in
the wine industry taking its toll. We feel very sorry for
all those who have been so badly affected by these
conditions.
Busy as ever here in Perth with major projects under
way, as you will read… Enjoy the July 2007 newsletter.STAFF MATTERS
We have a new staff member in the development team
Michael Beloshapkin who has taken over from Laurie
Smithdale who has left to dedicate his time to his own
website business. Due to the vast input and contribution
Laurie made over the years 1996 – 2007, he still remains
attached to Fairport in the capacity of consultant.
Michael joins us with a wealth of experience in business
and mapping software and GPS guidance systems. He
has developed software such as the following - VITO
SmartMap (one of the first mapping applications for
Pocket PC), VITO (GPS application for agricultural
chemical treatment), Pointer (the GSM/GPS system for
fleet control) and more. He is a director of the AeroGIS
company and developed all their aircraft guidance and
navigation software. Michael’s past includes obtaining a
PhD for his research project in map image ortho
rectification techniques.
He is currently finalising the John Deere interface and
will then be enhancing our range of mapping software
with the many suggestions that have come in over the
years.
At the end of this week we bid farewell to Gerard van
den Berg who joined us last August. Gerard has been
working exclusively on the total revamp of the PAM
IAR system. Gerard is moving on to new pastures and
we wish him well.
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| PAM News |
DPI Queensland go with PAM
After many years of the DPI Queensland using PAM
on most of their research stations they recently dicided
to standardize acrross all reseach stations with the PAM
software. This means all records will be maintaned in a
standard format allowing the consolidation af all their
data. They have replaced several packages that only did
“ part of the job” with PAM because they were ending up
with records in various formats “all over the place and it
was very difficult to do any comparative analysis”.
The second stage will be implementing the PAM
Enterprise solution across all the locations.
John Deere interface with PAM
John Deere and Fairport signed an agreement in
October 2005 to build an interface betweem the PAM
software and John Deere equipement. The development
of the interface has taken quite a long time and is now
well advanced.
The result of the interface will be to upload
information from PAM into the AMS Greenstar 2
display unit prior to work being carried out. Once the
work is completed data from the AMS Greenstar 2
display unit will be transferred back into PAM along
with the associated task records. PAM will become an
intergral part of operating the Greenstar 2 equipement
throughout the farming year.
The actual information transferred between the PAM
and Greenstar2 will be determined by the PAM modules
you own. The PAM Mapping will allow standard
records to be exchanged, whereas the Farmstar module
will allow VRT and harvest yield data to be exchanged
as well. The John Deere – FarmStar interface will also
cater for older model JD hardware.
We will be notifying all users when the package is
ready for release.
PAM 6 - Getting Closer!
The final testing of PAM 6 is nearing completion and
there are a few more enhancements to be included
before we release the update. We did not want to release
the update during the busy seeding period without
thorough testing by a number of very helpful clients.
There have been some major enhancements added that
have been in the Enterprise Version for some time.
To give you some idea of what is coming with the
version 6 release we have listed the MAIN
enhancements for you, many other minor changes have
also been carried out.
General
• Livestock and Paddock Activities Add Wizards can
now be resized and made to go "full screen"
• New "View" option in the PA Diary to look at the
details of a job (without going to the edit screen) …
which is a report that can be printed
• GP Diary - Now Full Screen
• Contacts Manager - Totally new screen to manage all
your contacts (Contractors, Staff, Vendors,
Customers, Agents, Transporters etc)
• Indicator Paddocks - Indicator paddocks are used as
" representative paddocks" for pasture monitoring or
soil testing. Useful where you have lots of small
paddocks of similar soil type and management (eg.
Dairy farmers)
• Pasture Covers / FOO / PGR can now be entered via
the PA Diary as well as a new quick data entry
screen.
• Chemical Database: Subscribe to InfoPest and you'll
have the complete list of chemicals in PAM. There
are a number of very good QA enhancements as a
result of this improvement. All PAM 6 upgrades
come with a sample Chemical Database system that
enables you to get an idea of how it would work
when fully populated with InfoPest data.
Cropping
• Pasture - Improved handling of Pasture sowing etc,
particularly for perennial pastures.
• Perennial Crops - improves handling of perennial
crops in general - particularly useful to sugar cane
growers, lucerne growers.
Livestock
• Ability to enter Livestock records in any date order
• Ability to edit and delete past transactions
• New activities wizard - more user friendly
• New style of perform agistment activities - more user
friendly
• New concept - "Reproductive Season' - used to give
more accurate reporting of offspring %'s
• New Shearing & Crutching event.
• Shearing & Crutching can be performed from the
Wool screen.
• New Bales to Mobs allocation system
• New Bales Description allocation system
Mapping
• Mapping: When creating a new layer you can now
stipulate the layer type. I.e. Polygon, Line, Symbol…
restricting the layer to that one object type.
• Mapping: Text Size (Ctrl + / -) Up/Down option to
increase or decrease the size of labels (Handy for
seeing very small labels, Mob Codes and printing)
• Mapping - Livestock Mobs: There are now a set of
options that enable you to set up the display of mob
symbols and text to your liking
• Mapping - Polygons with holes - you can now draw
'donuts" … E.g. Paddock polygons with holes to
exclude bush.
• Mapping - Info Button - Select the Info Button, then
click on a paddock to bring up its details, or a mob's
details, or a soil test result etc.
Individual Animal Records
Commercial
• Many New Lifetime Traits
• Lifetime traits - customisable.
• Transaction history for Old Tags
• Ability to name a mating group.
• Special animal "Flag" field to warn operators in the
yards for any purpose.
• Highlight quarantined animals
• Make trait ranges mandatory on set up, and validate
imported data.
• Ability to merge traits.
• Maintenance screen for Fate codes.
• List of Death options for Fate code: Death
• Storage of % breed composition for each animal.
• Allocation of numbers to Dead offspring
• "Just Imported" Flag
• User defined configuration of IAR screen columns
• Livestock activity Wizards incorporated into IAR -
Over 5 months work has gone into these new
enhancements alone.
• Big enhancements to Importing and Exporting data
• Creating new animals when importing data.
• Many improvements to Filter dialog box.
3 Fairport News
• Special animal "Flag" field to warn operators in the
yards for any purpose.
• Highlight quarantined or "Flagged" animals
• At user level ability to filter the traits displayed on the
main IAR screen.
• Tag Bucket File Import Screen - add the Typical
Visual ID prefixes to the Tag Bucket Visual ID's
• Perform all livestock activities either using mob
selection of by selecting (or importing) a list of
animals (regardless of their mob)
• And, coming later this year: live NLIS database
interface via the internet.
Stud
• Distinguish between Breeding Value traits and others
and display on a separate tab.
• Link BV's and Indexes to a Breed and Sex.
• Pregnancy Test Activity in IAR enhanced
• Ability to Import DNA test Results
• Accommodate Breed Society requirements - mostly
file export.
• Ability for user defined groups of Animals to be
allocated a performance group number and
description.
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| WWW News |
The page on our web site that gets the most hits is the
FAQ page www.fairport.com.au/FAQ. You can search
through a list of topics such as “Mapping” or
“ Livestock” you can also do a “Keyword” search such
as “multiple crops” and you will get a list of possible
answers.
The latest Upgrades of all our software is also on the
web site www.fairport.com.au/Upgrades for Fairport
Club Members. If you are not a current member and
want to keep up to date as well as receiving 1800
support just contact our office, we will explain all the
benefits and join you to the growing list of members.
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Pasture Watch / Pastures From Space News
Pasture Watch for PAM users has been enhanced
allowing all the reports to be available from within the
Pasture Watch program as well as in PAM, saving the
need to go into PAM to view the reports.
When PAM 6 is released, Pasture Watch will use the
PAM Rainfall records for the “Local Rainfall” to fine
tune the PGR and FOO information downloaded.
MAX PRO News MAX Pro has had some major work done on it over
the last six months as a result of feedback from clients
using the software.
In general the Reports have been enhanced, the Menu
system have been rearranged to give a better flow of
operation. There have been several bug fixes as well.
We have had quite a few enquires recently about MAX
Pro prompting the re-release of the software.
| Dealer News |
FarmTek Australia VIC - SA - TAS
With the season still tricking us, not knowing how it
will be, it has been a little quite on the training front.
We are still waiting news regarding FarmBis funding.
The new FarmBIS will be run Australia wide, rather
than state by state which is great news for NSW. We are
hoping more details to be available by the end of July. It
is expected to be at least 50% funding for on: FARM
and Group training.Call 0429930770 for further information
The Training request is still on-line at
www.fairport.com.au so please keep the request coming
in to assist us in scheduling training in your area. We
will start organizing courses as soon as the funding is
made available so do let me know your needs.
We are planning to be at the Yorke Peninsula Field
Days September 27-29 2007 in the Precision Ag
Pavilion on a shared site with Grant Yates from
Southern Precision Sprayers. Grant will be
demonstrating the Greenseeker and Weedseeker
products. More information can be found on the
Fairport site www.fairport.com.au , so please drop by if
you are attending.
Here’s to a new FINANCIAL year
Joanne Richardson
FarmTek Australia
Ph 1300 553 446
Email: Joanne@farmtek.com.au
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PAM Training is year round and don’t forget that
there is FarmBis subsidy available in Queensland.
PAM Version 6... Getting close now!!!
The new PAM Central software will be a great
investment for many Agribusinesses and corporate
growers. Give your managers the ability to enter
production records via the internet to the PAM database
located in the main office.
Paul Olsen
Ag IT
2-8 Serengetti Drive
MUNRUBEN QLD 4125
Ph/Fax: (07) 3802 1458
Mobile: 0419 727 086
Sales & Support: 1800 658 998
email: paul@agit.com.au[top]
Need PAM training…?
Booth Technology runs PAM Training Seminars at our
Perth Office during the last week of every month.
You can now claim up to 65% of the seminar cost
through FarmBis WA
Up and coming PAM Training Seminars in Perth
Monday 30th July – PAM Seminar
Tuesday 31st July – PAM Mapping Seminar
On the road again…
PAM Training and On Farm Demonstrations
Ben Coman is heading to the Margaret River, Augusta,
Dunsborough and Busselton area from Monday 23rd July
to Friday the 27th July
For further assistance please call Booth Technology on
(08) 9383 4443
Stephen Jasper – 0415 133 725
Ben Coman – 0414 408 458
Email: sales@boothtech.com.au[top]
| In Closing |
The Fairport Team wishes all our clients and friends the best for 2007 season
... Until SEPTEMBER !
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