Keeping Track of Farm Labor
Tim Hammerich
News Reporter
In any survey of challenges farmers face, labor is inevitably near the top. That’s why Joshua Farray and the team and FieldClock are trying to help farmers by making it easy to keep track of their labor: from clocking in and out to piecework to compliance through a digital app.
Farray… “My co-founders had problems in the field that they needed to solve. They had people, they needed to clock in and pay accurately. And the industry's heavily dominated by pen and paper, even still today. And that just seemed bonkers. And when they went to the traditional time clock companies, there weren't a lot of good options. They wanted to, you know, put like a warehouse style time clock mounted on a pickup truck and things like that. And it just, it didn't make any sense in this day and age. So what we did was take the approach of: Hey, look, phone batteries are getting better, the phones have gps. If we can make this as easy as Facebook, then anyone could use this. You know, the process of people showing up in the field is as simple as scanning an ID badge. Same thing for recording piecework production, and because it all happens in real time, now the farmers get all this massive amount of data that they can make real time decisions with. They know production yields as they're happening. They can plan trucks, pack line time, whatever they gotta do with it in a way that they couldn't do before.”
To learn more visit FieldClock.com.
