Custom AgroVision Cows integration development
AgroVision Cows is AgroVision's online cow management programme for dairy farmers and their advisers, with animal management, feeding, milk production and minerals in a single programme. Many parties around a dairy farm want to do more with that data: the feed adviser, the vet, the accountant, a contractor or an in-house report. Appfront builds the integration between AgroVision Cows and those systems, using the routes AgroVision offers and only with the farmer's permission.
What is an integration with AgroVision Cows, AgroVision's cow management programme?
An AgroVision Cows integration pulls data from AgroVision's cow management programme into the software you work in, or sends data the other way. According to AgroVision, AgroVision Cows combines animal management, feeding, milk production and minerals management in one online programme, for dairy farmers and advisers in the Netherlands and Belgium. The farmer works on a laptop or with the app on a smartphone, sees analyses of milk yield, concentrate use, concentrate costs and margin, and can share data with employees, advisers and the vet.
Without an integration, sharing often remains manual work. The feed adviser requests an export per farm or logs in to each client separately, the accountant receives figures in a spreadsheet, and a contractor or an in-house report only sees the data once someone sends it on. AgroVision offers advisers AgroVision Cows Consultant to view a client's environment, and Dairy Analytics for milk, feed and robot data from all clients. If you need the data in your own system, such as a feed calculation, an advisory CRM or a data warehouse, there is still a step missing.
We build custom because every party does something different with the data. A feed company wants production alongside feed deliveries for each client, an advisory firm wants an overview of all its farms, and a farmer with multiple locations wants their own dashboard. AgroVision says Cows connects with the brands and systems that farmers use, but we have not found public API documentation for Cows. Which route suits you, we'll look at in the first step with you and with AgroVision.
No retyping
Data passed on automatically.
With consent
Recorded per farmer.
Overview
All your farms together.
How we build your integration with AgroVision Cows, AgroVision's dairy herd management software
We start with your question: which data from AgroVision Cows you need, for how many farms, which system it should end up in, and how the farmers' consent is currently arranged. Then we build the first integration for one data flow, such as milk production and feed data going to your ration calculation, and test it with a few farms. More farms, more data types and an overview of your own follow if that goes well. After that, we maintain the integration when AgroVision Cows or your own systems change.
Data, farms, destination.
Tested with a few farms.
More farms and data.
Go-live, monitoring, and maintenance when things change.
What an integration with AgroVision Cows, AgroVision's dairy herd management software, actually does
The components below appear in almost every integration with AgroVision Cows. Which ones you need depends on your role around the dairy farm.
Retrieving
Via AgroVision's own routes.
Permission
Recorded per farmer.
Conversion
In your own structure.
Combining
Per adviser or group.
Overview
Production, feed, balance.
Log
Every exchange logged.
Who we build an integration with AgroVision Cows, AgroVision's dairy herd management software, for
The integration is intended for organisations that regularly need data from AgroVision Cows in their own system. The more farms and the more often the data is needed, the more it delivers.
Feed advisers
Production alongside the ration.
Feed companies
The figures per customer.
Vets
Health at a glance.
Dairy farmers
Your own reporting.
Technology and integrations
This page is about integrations with AgroVision Cows. If the farm works with Lely, take a look at our page on the Lely Horizon integration. If you want to share data from many farms via a data platform with consent management, see our page on the JoinData integration; for minerals, our page on the KringloopWijzer integration; and for your own administration, our page on agricultural administration software. You can read about our approach on building software.
Why Appfront for your integration with AgroVision Cows, AgroVision's dairy herd management software?
Feed advice based on figures that are a month old, an adviser who has to log in separately for every farm, or data passed on without clear consent: all of these cost a dairy farm and its advisers time and trust. That is what we build around: the farmer's data reaching whoever may use it, on time, with consent on record.
Up to date
Data passed on automatically.
Careful
Only with consent.
Overview
All farms together.
Security and privacy in an integration with AgroVision Cows, AgroVision's dairy herd management software
A dairy farmer's farm data belongs to the farmer. The integration only retrieves data from farms that have given consent, records per farm who may see which data and until when, and stops as soon as a farmer withdraws consent. Every exchange is logged with time and result.
The integration runs in a European data centre, with encrypted connections and storage and daily backups. Access credentials for AgroVision are stored separately and encrypted, and we only use the routes and terms that AgroVision sets for sharing data.
Frequently asked questions about an integration with AgroVision Cows, AgroVision's dairy herd management software
Questions that feed advisers, vets and dairy farmers ask before getting started.
A link between AgroVision Cows, AgroVision's dairy herd management software, and another system, such as a ration calculation, an adviser CRM, a data warehouse or your own dashboard. Data on animals, feed, milk production and minerals is passed on automatically, with the farmer's consent.
An online programme from AgroVision for dairy farmers and advisers, covering animal management, nutrition, milk production and mineral management. Farmers work on a laptop or with the app. It is available in the Netherlands and Belgium.
With AgroVision Cows Consultant, an adviser looks into a client's environment, and Dairy Analytics combines milk, feed and robot data from all clients. Both are AgroVision products. A custom integration is for those who need the data in their own system.
We haven't found any public API documentation for Cows; AgroVision does mention an API for AgroVision Crops. Which route is available for Cows, and under what conditions, is something we look at in the first step with AgroVision.
The data belongs to the farmer. The integration only retrieves data from farms that have given consent, records which data it covers and who it is for, and stops when consent is withdrawn.
Yes. For an adviser or feed company, the integration can bring the data from all their farms into a single overview, so production, feed and balance sit side by side. Each farm remains visible only to those who are allowed to see it.
For advisers, feed companies and veterinary practices with many clients on AgroVision Cows, and for farmers with multiple locations or their own reporting. If it concerns a single farm and the occasional export, AgroVision's own sharing function is often enough.
Data from AgroVision Cows directly in your system?
Tell us which data you need, for how many farms and in which system. We'll show you how an integration can handle that.