By Nicholas
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This blog talks about a Farm Solutions Cloud based site called www.Cloud9F.com . This site is still under development, and, unfortunately, is not yet available to clients. Date = 1st Feb 2015.
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Oh darn. It has happened!
I am left stranded in Papeete after a glorious holiday.
What about my Farm in New Zealand? I cannot afford to be away from it any longer.
However, they tell me there is no way that the aeroplane is getting off the ground at Papeete to go to New Zealand.
Fortunately, I am linked with an IT Support Services business called Cloud9 Farming Solutions. So my next question is, “Can I access the Internet?” I find that I can — but can I access the Cloud9 site?
Let’s try. I access my Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) and type in, at the top, www.Cloud9F.com . The web site appears. Hallelujah!!! It asks me to log in.
I log on successfully, and it asks me to choose the service I want. I choose “Clampbett Farm” (that is the name of my farm), and a specially tailored site comes up for my farm.
My farm is a dairy farm. I am interested to know:
• Does the farm need irrigating?
• Do the cows need milking?
• What is the level of the feed stock?
My farm worker, Bob Pimlayne, is meant to take care of these things while I am away.
Oh well, I had better check. This Cloud9 Farming Solutions service is superb. I won’t go into how these things are monitored. It is sufficient to say that they are monitored very well, and I can check the status from anywhere in the world that can access the Internet.
What did I discover?
The soil was dry and needed to be irrigated.
The cows needed milking. The level in the milk vats suggested that they hadn’t been milked for 24 hours.
The level of feed stock suggested that the feed had been distributed.
Darn. I’ll need to ring Pimlayne. I can do a VOIP (Voice Over IP) service straight to him without it costing too much. Another Cloud9 Farming solution.
“Goodaye Bob. Nick here. Good to see you fed the cows.”
“Awwww, how do you know I did?”
“By the level of the feed stock. Well done.”
“Awwww gee, I don’t know how you know these things. It’s frightening magic.”
“That’s right. So why haven’t the fields been irrigated? Why haven’t the cows been milked?”
“Awww, we’ve had a power failure.”
“How do you know?” I asked.
“Awww the lights went out, and in the farm house too”.
“Okay, can you get the key to the Toyota Corona, and start it up. Check the fuel tank. It should be ¾ full”.
Cloud9F Farming Solutions are very clever. They set up an old Toyota Corona (a good car, they said, but it had run out of registration). The motor powers an excellent stand by generator – better than Mains Power.
I accessed the Stand by generator menu on my Cloud9F site, and switched the power from Mains to generator. Thirty seconds later, the computer gave me the message “Generator active”. Good old Bob had got the Toyota started.
I phoned Bob back. “Well done, you started the Toyota. Are the lights on in the shed?”
“Yeah”, he said.
“That’s terrific”, I said. “Now you can milk those cows, and irrigate the fields. If the lights go out, you will need to do both tasks manually.”
“Awwww gee. I hope the lights stay on!”
It looks like I am stuck in Papeete, Tahiti a little bit longer. I wonder what I’ll do.
What a marvellous setup and service I have from www.Cloud9F.com I wonder if they supply robots to do Bob’s work. Maybe next year?
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Cloud9 Farming Services is still in the development stage.
Nicholas (Nick Thorne) is the founder of MomohoNZ Limited a company that specialises in Education and Training; Infopreneur; Project and Analysis; and Writing. He lives in Gisborne, New Zealand.