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Farmos: Free and Open Source Farm Management Software Platform and Development Community

FarmOS is an open-source platform and development community that provides free farm management software tools to farmers around the world. It leverages existing open-source hardware and software communities to give all scales of producers tools to improve soil health and sustainable agriculture. Farmers enter data once to access powerful recommendation tools tailored to their specific location. The platform also facilitates knowledge sharing between farmers, researchers, and others globally to advance sustainable agriculture through local adaptation of shared information.

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Farmos: Free and Open Source Farm Management Software Platform and Development Community

FarmOS is an open-source platform and development community that provides free farm management software tools to farmers around the world. It leverages existing open-source hardware and software communities to give all scales of producers tools to improve soil health and sustainable agriculture. Farmers enter data once to access powerful recommendation tools tailored to their specific location. The platform also facilitates knowledge sharing between farmers, researchers, and others globally to advance sustainable agriculture through local adaptation of shared information.

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2nd International Symposium on Agroecology Scaling-Up Agroecology to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

United States INNOVATIONS IN AGROECOLOGY

FarmOS: Free and Open


Source Farm Management
Software Platform and
Development Community
Scaling soil health and biologically based landscape restoration is knowledge rather than input limited.
The FarmOS system leverages existing global, open-source hardware and software communities to provide
tools to all scales and production systems. It is free to download, use and modify. Farmers control their
own secure data to choose how to share knowledge with other farmers, researchers, businesses and the
general public.

The interface supports mobile phone access and entry of all records anywhere, even in limited connectivity
environments, and enables location-specific decision tools driven by farm records and soil and weather data.

An Open Agricultural
Architecture for
Knowledge Exchange
FarmOS uses low-cost, open-source
technology to link producers with
other producers, researchers,
businesses and the public, using
a common format that leverages
existing tools and enables
the exchange of agricultural
information and inspiration across
geographies, production systems
and cultural boundaries.

Global Knowledge ~Local


Adaptation
A global network of engineers,
designers, roboticists, researchers
and farmers partner to build
collaborative development
platforms, like Farm Hack and
FarmOS, which democratize access
to environmental monitoring
to improve soil health, and
agricultural production.

Farmer Enters Data Once


to unlock Powerful
Knowledge-based tools
Farm specific information, once
gathered, provides access to
data-driven, location-specific
recommendations. Every Farm
becomes its own farmer-driven
research and education farm,
and provides the foundation for
outcome-based ecosystem services
markets.
Example tool modules include:
»»soil health monitoring and
recommendations;
»»food safety, supply chain and
organic certification records;
automation and sensor-based Democratize access to
»»farmer-driven crop trial alerts; Agricultural Knowledge
management;
»»adaptive nutrient and GHG FarmOS creates a “pre-competitive”
»»equipment records and Farm management; and platform, which encourages local
Hack tool library;
»»Cover Crop Decision Support adaptation and the creation of
»»Internet of Things (IoT) farm Suite. innovative local enterprises with
access to global agricultural
knowledge.

a Shared Human
Endeavor

New distributed tools enable


the exchange of agricultural
knowledge on a global scale,
driven by farmer trust and
local innovation.

FarmOS – Dorn Cox PhD


https://farmos.org and www.farmhack.org a project of | [email protected]

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