OverseerFM is New Zealand software that enables farmers and growers to improve nutrient use on farms, delivering better environmental outcomes and better farm profitability.
Various forms of Overseer software have been available as desktop applications since the early 2000’s with an online version available since 2012. In June 2018, Overseer Limited released the OverseerFM software service.
OverseerFM places the farm at the centre of the software, allowing easy sharing of farm data between different users and organisations who have permission to access it.
There is one account per farm, and permissions to access the account are controlled by the farm account owner (usually the farmer or farm manager). Access can also be managed by the farm account administrator/s, which is often the organisation that set up the account.
Having a single farm account centrally stored is a key element to OverseerFM. The secure and easy sharing of farm information reduces the duplication of effort when many professionals model the same farm, it increases the consistency of analysis through everyone working off the same information, and it allows farmers and farm managers visibility of their farm nutrient analyses and control over what happens to their farm information.
OverseerFM is a decision support tool, not a decision-making tool. The information provided by OverseerFM allows an assessment of various management approaches and as such must be interpreted as an indication based on an understanding of the modelling approach, and not as an absolute value.