Smartphone Apps for Smart Farmers v2

Ground Cover
Designed as a tool for grazing property management
Free 3.8Mb Internet
iOS
Available
in North West NSW, Ground Cover is a valuable tool
required
(iPhone or
for
in farm management anywhere in the world. Ground
for some
iPad)
Android
Cover is applicable to pasture management
sections
download
regardless of the type of livestock used. The app
here
allows you to accurately assess the ground cover of
your paddock and even send that information by
email to a database.
GroundCover uses geo-location technology along
with a standard Step Point monitoring process and is
supported with photographic benchmark capability.
New in this edition
iSpyFish
This fish field guide contains detailed descriptions,
Free 30.5Mb Internet
iOS
Not
rich images, distribution maps and the option to
required
(iPhone or
available
record your catch of 21 native and 8 alien species
for some
iPad)
for
found in the Goulburn Broken Catchment, situated in
sections
download
Android
the south eastern Australian State of Victoria. It
here
allows users to record their fish catch at the push of a
button, which are mapped and displayed in real time
on the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management
Authority Website.
The app also allows you to post your catch to your
personal Facebook page and the Goulburn Broken
Catchment Management Authorities iSpy Fish
Facebook page. These recordings will help build our
knowledge on the distribution and habitat preference
of fish species across the Goulburn Broken
Catchment.
New in this edition
© Ag Excellence Alliance Inc November 2014
Produced by Ag Excellence Alliance Inc, with funding from Natural Resources SA Murray-Darling Basin Page 74