Glossary: Farm system

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Term:

Farm system

Abbreviation:
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Definition:
A computer system which collects, stores, and analyses animal data relating to a farm. The outputs of a farm system are used by the farmer to support a range of management decisions. Typically these were PC based systems located on the farm which have more recently started to evolve to cloud based systems.

Reference:
ICAR Guideline

Overview of Guidelines for Data exchange

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