When setting up your farm in AgriWebb, it's important to consider how your operation is structured, especially if you have multiple properties.
The Difference
What is a block?
The concept of a "block" is simply the grouping of paddocks on the same farm map. You can run multiple blocks on the one map. You don't create blocks manually, they will be created automatically when 3 or more paddocks are created seperate to another group of 3 or more paddocks.
What is a Seperate Farm?
Each farm has its own Farm Map, Inventory, Reporting and Settings. You switch between Farms rather than managing everything from the one map.
Feature | Blocks (on Single Farm) | Seperate Farm |
Farm Map | One Map for all blocks | Seperate map per farm. Switch between farms |
Inventory | Shared Inventory across all blocks | Seperate Inventory per farm |
Reporting | Combined reporting across the entire operation. To filter reports by block you can setup your paddocks with prefixes. | Reporting separated by farm. |
Livestock Movements
| Move livestock freely between paddocks on different blocks. | Livestock moved between farms through Livestock Transfer (IAM) Livestock Transfer (MOB) Sale Record (IAM) |
User access cannot be restricted by blocks. | Users can be granted access farm-by-farm. | |
Integration is enabled across all blocks.
| Integration needs to be enabled for each farm. | |
Best suited to | One business operating multiple properties | Seperate businesses or compliance structures. |
Considerations
When working out if your farms should be run as blocks or separate farms you'll need to ask yourself a couple of questions:
1. Do you run the farms under the same business?
If you run multiple properties under the same business, it's generally best to set them up in AgriWebb as blocks on the one farm map. This allows you to share inventory across all properties, freely move livestock between blocks and combine reporting across the business. If you wish to filter reports by block, you can setup your paddocks with prefixes.
2. Are your farms under different PICs / CPHs?
If your farms are run under different PICs / CPHs then you will need to consider livestock movements, sale and purchases. In real life transfers of stock between PICs would require an NVD and transfer on NLIS database. So if you are wanting to record these details it would be best to keep them as separate farms on AgriWebb.
Note: If you're in the UK and are considering using blocks rather than separate farms, you will need to stay as separate farms if you're connecting to the government body to send movements through, as animals need to stay on the current farm that connects to the CPH number. So if you have 2 farms, you can't merge them and use blocks in this instance.
Note: For more information on adding a farm see our article Add Farm.
Running your Farms as Blocks
Running your farms as blocks would look like this.
You can toggle between the blocks by using the toggle icon on the mobile app.
On the web select Next Block, to move between the blocks.
See our Prefix article for steps on how to make your blocks distinctive. You can add prefixes to the names of your paddocks, different colours or paddock descriptions to help distinguish between blocks in your reports.
Running Seperate Farms
By doing this, each of your farms would be on their own map. You can toggle between these farms using the left navigation panel on the Web App.
Click on the down arrow next to your farm name.
You can switch between farms on the mobile app by selecting Menu > Switch Farm.
If you would like to split blocks out from an existing farm map or merge farm maps into one farm on AgriWebb, please contact Customer Support, as we'll need to assist you to do this.