Create your private farm
Start the 14-day trial with your ChatGPT account. Name the farm, choose the province and accept the customer terms.
SAFarmer onboarding guide
Start with one good record, then build your whole farm picture.
Veldboek works best when it follows the work already happening on the farm. You do not need to capture every historic record on day one.
Map the first camp
Open Map, trace a camp boundary and save it. Veldboek calculates hectares and gives your records a practical location.
Add livestock groups
Enter each mob or herd once with its opening number, breed, class and current camp. Births, purchases, deaths and sales keep the count moving.
Choose your first useful record
For most farms, begin with a move, a treatment, a rainfall reading, a weight or an expense. Capture what happened, not everything at once.
Bring in existing data
Use More → Connections for BenguFarm, weighing-session and production imports. Preview the file, resolve warnings and confirm before saving.
Use reports after records exist
Rankings, costs and performance reports become useful as the same groups are measured over time. Missing records are shown as missing—they are not treated as poor performance.
A sensible first week
Make Veldboek useful before you add more detail.
- Map the camps you use most often.
- Add the largest sheep, goat or cattle groups.
- Record the next move, health treatment and expense.
- Import one test file from BenguFarm or your scale.
- Review the dashboard with your manager or family team.