Accurate and easy to use Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS) are of fundamental importance for a successful operational farm management.However, still today many farmers do not use FMISs for various reasons, like lack of knowledge and poison open up and say ahh t shirt the complexity of many available FMISs.In particular for small to medium-sized farms and for multifunctional farms appropriate FMISs hardly exist.
This paper aims on the deduction of a concrete FMIS from a general FMIS.The concrete FMIS has to focus on the needs of medium-sized orion bar key west and multifunctional farms.This means that the farmer has to be empowered to allocate the scarce resources of the farm.
Therefore, we picked a German farm from the state North Rhine Westphalia as a case-study to apply a system analysis.The case study farm helps to identify and to analyze relevant material and information flows, production processes, and their interconnections and synergies.