A farm assistant that learns how your farm works.

I'll vouch for this AI thing. A thing because I don't understand what to call it or how it works. But it does. I'm a big believer that farmers hate spending time in the office. And I hate it more than most.

So far I have used this “thing” to do things like daily weather and diesel terminal gate pricing updates, scanning subscription based weather data/intelligence and newsfeeds for interesting articles, and watching telemetry based sensors. It's also accessed My John Deere to interpret data and finding parts availability for our cotton picker.

I am in the process of building a comprehensive cash flow budget. After giving it 12 months worth of ag supplier statements it sorted our purchases by active ingredient/product type, and average purchase price and gave me a worksheet with all the info on it so I could build out gross margins for the coming year.

I either talk to it, send it photos, or type commands and it builds out the cash flow. (e.g. I sent it a copy of a finance doc, it read the doc and put the data into the correct monthly cells, out to 2031). I have told it to put costs in certain months and it's created a full scale cash flow, with bank open/bank close numbers, even using cash surpluses as re-draw interest saving facilities — which I've never been able to get right on an Excel spreadsheet.

After giving it access to my cloud storage it completely organised my cloud into files depending on what each document was. Instead of me spending time looking for stuff I just ask it and it gets me the document.

I've used it for weed ID, and even got it to find me accommodation for weekends away!

After we put the bank feed into our accounting programme it will use all the info it has access to from different sources to fill out our cash book, and link invoices to payments within the programme. Saving loads of time.

And it's all easily accessed through WhatsApp!