Phase blog https://www.phase.ag/blog What is new in Phase, practical guides to keeping farm records, and why we build it the way we do. en-AU What's new in Phase: October 2026 https://www.phase.ag/blog/whats-new-october-2026 https://www.phase.ag/blog/whats-new-october-2026 Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT What's new New in Phase this month: yield maps in 3D on real ground, a notification bell with team updates, signing on and off for safety, one grid for every price. Put the farm's emergency plan on every worker's phone https://www.phase.ag/blog/farm-emergency-plan-on-every-phone https://www.phase.ag/blog/farm-emergency-plan-on-every-phone Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Guides Phase puts an emergency page on every phone on the farm: one-tap emergency numbers, the address to give, the meeting point and your plan, even with no signal. A farm fuel log that checks itself against the pump meter https://www.phase.ag/blog/farm-fuel-log-pump-meter https://www.phase.ag/blog/farm-fuel-log-pump-meter Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Guides Record the bowser's meter reading with each fill-up and Phase works out the litres, keeps a fuel log by machine, and shows when fuel left the tank unrecorded. Farm timesheets: a calendar of hours for paying staff https://www.phase.ag/blog/farm-timesheets-hours-calendar https://www.phase.ag/blog/farm-timesheets-hours-calendar Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Guides Phase keeps each worker's start, finish, break and what they did in a month calendar, entered from their own phone, and exports the month for pay. A sign-on board for farm workers: know everyone made it back https://www.phase.ag/blog/farm-worker-sign-on-sign-off https://www.phase.ag/blog/farm-worker-sign-on-sign-off Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Guides How signing on and off works in Phase. A worker says when they expect to finish, and if they have not signed off, the right people are told. No tracking. Livestock reports: feed-out by pen, weight gain and treatments https://www.phase.ag/blog/livestock-reports-feed-weights-treatments https://www.phase.ag/blog/livestock-reports-feed-weights-treatments Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Guides Four printable livestock reports in Phase. Feed-out by pen, weights and gain, a mob register, and treatments with withholding dates, as PDF, Excel or CSV. Machinery service reminders that follow engine hours https://www.phase.ag/blog/machinery-service-reminders-engine-hours https://www.phase.ag/blog/machinery-service-reminders-engine-hours Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Guides Set a service reminder by engine hours and Phase raises the job, with its checklist and parts, for the right person. Hours can update themselves from connected machines. See where water sits, frost settles and wind hits in a paddock https://www.phase.ag/blog/paddock-rain-frost-wind-simulator https://www.phase.ag/blog/paddock-rain-frost-wind-simulator Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Guides Phase Spatial can run a fall of rain, a frost night or a wind over a paddock's real ground, and number the ponds, frost hollows and exposed rises it finds. Spray records on your phone: what to record and how https://www.phase.ag/blog/spray-records-on-your-phone https://www.phase.ag/blog/spray-records-on-your-phone Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Guides What a good spray record holds, and how to keep one in Phase from the paddock in a few taps, with the weather, the products and the stock filled in for you. Update chemical and fertiliser prices across every crop plan https://www.phase.ag/blog/update-chemical-fertiliser-prices https://www.phase.ag/blog/update-chemical-fertiliser-prices Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Guides In Phase, change every product price in one grid, paste a price list from Excel, and put the new prices onto every unfinished job in your crop plans. Keeping track of water tanks, dams and bores on the farm https://www.phase.ag/blog/water-tanks-dams-bores https://www.phase.ag/blog/water-tanks-dams-bores Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Guides In Phase, record tank levels in one tap, log checks on troughs and bores, and see every water point on the farm map, for stock, spray, the house and fire. Yield maps in 3D: read yield against the lie of the land https://www.phase.ag/blog/yield-maps-in-3d https://www.phase.ag/blog/yield-maps-in-3d Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Guides Phase stands a yield map up on the paddock's real ground and shows whether the hollows or the rises yielded more, with a figure for each fifth of the paddock. Where Phase features come from: growers asking for them https://www.phase.ag/blog/built-from-what-growers-ask-for https://www.phase.ag/blog/built-from-what-growers-ask-for Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Our story Most of what we build into Phase starts as a message from someone on a farm. Four recent features, and the plain requests they came from. Farm software that works the same in the paddock as at the desk https://www.phase.ag/blog/farm-software-same-on-phone-and-computer https://www.phase.ag/blog/farm-software-same-on-phone-and-computer Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Our story Why every part of Phase works on a phone as well as a computer, so no job has to wait until you are back in the office at night. What is Phase? Farm management software on one paddock map https://www.phase.ag/blog/what-is-phase https://www.phase.ag/blog/what-is-phase Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Our story Phase is farm management software for Australian growers. Crop plans, spray records, inventory, weather, livestock and machinery in one app, on phone and computer. Why we built Phase: farm records that talk to each other https://www.phase.ag/blog/why-we-built-phase https://www.phase.ag/blog/why-we-built-phase Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Our story Phase started on a working broadacre farm, with a simple complaint. The plan, the spray records, the shed and the machinery books never talked to each other. Your farm data is yours: how Phase treats farm records https://www.phase.ag/blog/your-farm-data-is-yours https://www.phase.ag/blog/your-farm-data-is-yours Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:00 GMT Our story Who owns the records you keep in Phase, who can see them, how you get them out, and what Phase Agent is allowed to change. The short, plain version.