Farm Matters

Farm Matters is record-keeping software for UK farms. It handles records for cattle, sheep, crops, medicines and nitrate vulnerable zones, and can send movement notifications to the official bodies electronically.

What Farm Matters offers

• Cattle records — births, purchases, sales, movements, deaths, services, treatments and weights.
• Official reporting — passports and movements go to the British Cattle Movement Service or ScotMoves, and sheep movements to Livestock Information.
• Cross checks — compares cattle on the farm with those held by the movement service, useful before an inspection.
• Reports — printable documents such as the cattle movement book and medicine book, with print preview and PDF export.
• Scottish schemes — supports the Beef Efficiency Scheme and Suckler Calf Support Scheme through ScotEID.

Who it works with

Cattle and sheep keepers and arable farmers in the UK, including Scottish producers.

Key facts

• Company: Farm Matters Ltd
• History: descends from earlier farm software, with a new version released in 2013
• Equipment: works with several EID readers and weigh indicators