New features are on the way for the E-Farmer mobile and desktop apps: planning your whole livestock farm with Farm Science, learning farming in a training simulator, adding any crop you grow, and recording the rain on your farm. Here is what they do, why they matter and when to expect them.
Dates are targets and may move. Follow the blog and the app for updates.
Draw your farm land once, then place everything on it: animal houses, feed store, water tank, quarantine, manure area and room to grow. E-Farmer tells you how much space each part needs for the number of animals you want to raise.
Most costly mistakes happen before the first animal arrives: a house too small for the flock, no room for a feed store or a sick bay, a water tank that runs dry. Sizing the farm right from the start protects animal health and your money.
Already set up? Draw your land, mark your existing houses and stores, and continue as usual.
Starting a farm? Choose your species, number of animals and rearing system: E-Farmer proposes the areas, sizes and an estimated cost.
Adjust the layout on your land, then apply it: your planned buildings appear in your farm, ready to track.
Every day, E-Farmer checks space, water and feed against your real batches and warns you before problems happen.
The planner works out the land, house size, feed, water and workers for 13 kinds of farm animal: laying hens, broilers, village chickens, guinea fowl, ducks, pigs, goats, sheep, beef cattle, dairy cows, dairy buffalo, rabbits and fish (tilapia, catfish, carp). It uses real market prices for 7 countries, kept up to date with the prices farmers enter once our team has checked them (a price with no recent market source is marked Estimate), plus local breeds and the best month to start. It shows the money you need and when it comes back.
Already in Today: cold night, heat and heavy rain alerts for your farm, brooding temperatures by age, feed running low or missing, and crop jobs that follow the weather (check after a storm, no watering when rain is coming). Next: crowding and water warnings that follow your animals as they grow.
The guided planner is available: from your project to sizes, costs and payback, build or rent, and a plan you edit keeps every answer. Next: a proposed layout on your own land.
Your animals can already live on a plot or part of one, and each batch records its house: type, heating, ventilation, thermometer. Next: the main land of each farm, with houses, stores and tanks placed on it and each batch in its house.
Every species is already in the planner. Next: a printable farm layout with a materials estimate.
A training mode inside the app: you raise a virtual flock or crop through a full cycle in accelerated time, make the daily decisions, buy what you need with training credits, and see the consequences of every choice before you try it on a real farm.
On a real farm, a missed vaccination or a forgotten day of water costs animals and money. In the Academy, the same mistake costs nothing, and you learn why it matters, when to act and what never to miss.
Choose a journey: broilers first, then layers, maize, tomatoes, pigs and mixed farming.
Follow the chapters: plan your farm, prepare, start production, protect your farm, harvest and sell, review.
The virtual clock runs while you play; deadlines like vaccination days are real in the game, and missing them affects your farm.
Fail a chapter? Review what went wrong, replay a short lesson and try again, without losing your whole journey.
The complete broiler cycle from preparation to sale, offline, with the training wallet and shop.
Your progress saved to your account, badges, and the first partner rewards.
Layers, maize, tomatoes, pigs, mixed farming, and the desktop app.
E-Farmer knows 21 crops in detail. When yours is missing, type its name: E-Farmer prepares its growth stages, daily jobs, pest checks and harvest for your country, from farm research sources, and the crop works like any other, offline too.
Farmers grow far more crops than any app can list in advance: local leaves, spices, fruits, tubers. Without stages and jobs for your crop, the app cannot remind you what to do or warn you in time. Now no crop is left out.
In a new crop cycle, choose "My crop is not in the list" and type its name.
E-Farmer checks whether it already knows the crop under another name, or has already prepared it for your region.
If not, it prepares the crop in a few minutes: you can leave the screen, and a notification tells you when it is ready.
Look at the stages and tips, confirm, and follow your cycle with jobs and alerts like any crop.
Ask for a missing crop on the phone app, get it prepared for your country, and use it right away, marked as prepared by AI.
Our team checks each prepared crop with its sources; approved crops join the app for every farmer, and your cycles move to them with nothing lost.
Ask for a missing crop on Windows too.
Today E-Farmer reads the weather forecast: it warns you of heavy rain and skips watering jobs when rain is due or has just fallen. Next, you will record the rain from your own rain gauge, see the totals of each week, month and season, and know when the rains have truly started.
Rain decides when to plant, when to water and how big the harvest will be, and a forecast for the nearest town is not the rain that fell on your field. Your own records show what really happened and help you plan the next season.
Place a rain gauge on your farm, or use a simple can with straight sides.
After each rain, open the farm and note the millimetres, or that it stayed dry.
E-Farmer adds up the totals and shows them next to the forecast and your crop cycles.
When enough rain has fallen in a few days, E-Farmer tells you the soil is ready to plant.
Already in Today: heavy rain alerts, no watering when rain is coming or has just fallen, and plant and drainage checks after a storm.
Note the rain on the farm or on a plot, with daily, monthly and season totals, offline.
Know when the rains have started before you plant, and see the dry spells of each crop cycle.
Tell us what your farm needs most. Your feedback decides what we build first.
