Openfield Launches New App and Alexa Skill

Openfield is pleased to announce the launch of a brand-new app and a new innovative way to interact with the smart speaker Alexa.

The new Openfield App includes many favourites from Openfield's Farmer Portal, Insight including access to contracts, loading schedules, Track My Truck, Futures prices, a handy chat function and the seed selector.

New Openfield App

Accessible on a tablet or smartphone farmers can view three years' worth of account details, including movement periods, contract prices and tonnage.

The loading schedule brings up a smart way to view all planned collections, including variety, tonnage, timing and haulage contact details. This ensures all the information needed is available for each and every collection helping farmers to plan their time much more effectively.

Track My Truck allows farmers to anticipate when a lorry, which is using Openfield's tracking tool, is on its way to the farm. This feature allows growers to set email or text alerts, informing them exactly how far away a collection is from their farm. This means that farmers can pinpoint where the driver is and ensure everything is ready to make the collection as quick and efficient as possible.

Farmers can access the London Wheat futures and send chat messages to the Openfield team can react quickly to any questions or information that is required by the farmer.

Openfield's seed selector is a simple to use interactive tool. It enables farmers to select seed varieties by answering a few quick questions. The easy to use functionality reduces the stress of the seed selection process and helps farmers to identify varieties that meet their specific needs.

Alexa, OpenField Portal...

If the app isn't enough, the team has also introduced a way for farmers to ask Alexa to access a number of the new app's features. Alexa is now happy to tell farmers how the wheat futures are doing, what their Openfield Crop Fund value is and how their loading schedule is looking. There's also a way to listen to any chat messages which have been received.

Michael Goodyear, head of IT at Openfield, says; 'Our in-house technology team has worked with farmers to deliver our innovative new app and a brand new way to interact with Openfield using Alexa. We're proud of the depth of information available and we're already working on some fantastic enhancements, including Price Alerts and a new Fertiliser Selector tool which will be added very soon.'

The Openfield App is now available to download from the App Store or Google Play by searching for 'Openfield Insight'. The Alexa skill can be accessed by downloading the Alexa App.