Start 2025 Right: Manage Crops 🌽 and Animals 🐑 Seamlessly with LiteFarm

Happy New Year, LiteFarmers!

As we look ahead to 2025, we’re thrilled to bring you LiteFarm’s new animal management features—a transformative update that enables you to manage your crops and animals 🐄🐓 together in one powerful app. Whether you’re raising animals, cultivating crops, or doing both, LiteFarm now supports a fully integrated approach to farm management.

Special thanks to contributors Navdeep Dhammu, Joaquín Moreno, Gursimran Singh, Shang Heng Mak, Kevin Wu, Serhii Zahranychnyi and Daria Mykhailova for helping us deliver this release.

What’s New?

Animal Management at Your Fingertips

• Easily Add Animals: Create individual profiles 🐓 or entire batches of animals 🐓🐓🐓with just a few clicks. 

• Customize Animal Types and Breeds: Add custom animal types and breeds to ensure LiteFarm reflects the unique needs of your farm and operation.

• Track Essential Tasks: Use custom tasks to manage activities like feeding, health checks, and milking across farm locations such as barns and fields 🧺🌾.

Streamlined Movement Tasks

• Animal Movement Made Simple: Assign and monitor tasks to move animals 🐂🐓 between different areas of your farm.

• Multiple Location Types: Select from practical, predefined locations while avoiding irrelevant options for a smoother experience.

Improved custom Tasks

• Assign specific animals to custom tasks. This enhancement allows for better task management tailored to individual animals or groups, streamlining workflows like vaccinations, feeding schedules, or health check-ups.

• Optional Location for Custom Tasks

  To make task creation more flexible, associating a location with a custom task is now optional. This is especially useful for activities that are not tied to a specific area, such as administrative work, general observations, or tasks involving mobile equipment or animals.

Improved Support Access

• Help at Your Fingertips: We’ve relocated the help button to the top-right corner of the app, making it easier than ever to connect with our support team when you need assistance.

Why This Matters

LiteFarm has been your trusted partner for crop management 🌽, and now we’re extending that same support to your livestock 🐣🐄. This integrated approach simplifies your workflow, saves time, and lets you focus on what matters most: your farm’s success.

A Beta Feature with Big Potential

The animal management functionality is currently launching with a "Beta" tag. This means it’s still in development, and we’re committed to improving it further based on your feedback. We’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions—let us know what features and enhancements you’d like to see in future updates!

Looking Ahead

This release marks the first step in a series of updates designed to improve livestock and integrated crop-livestock management. With your feedback, we’ll continue to evolve these tools to better serve your needs.

As 2024 comes to a close, we’d like to thank you for being a vital part of the LiteFarm community. Here’s to a productive and prosperous 2025! 🎉

The LiteFarm Team