ProductBriefings
Audio briefings before a farm visit
A PropelMapper briefing is a short audio recap of a place, written from its visits, readings, tasks and mail and read aloud, so you can catch up on a farm in the truck instead of scrolling through notes in the yard.
Get prepped before you reach the gate
A briefing tells you what you found last time, what you promised and who asked about what, so the visit starts where the last one ended. Play it on the drive in and walk up to the grower already knowing.
Mike M., a crop advisor at Agricultural Advisors, put the alternative well: the only spare time in the day is the driving. A briefing uses it.
The visits, readings and tasks are already in PropelMapper. A briefing reads the relevant part to you while your eyes are on the road.
Freestall Barn 1, fresh pen: what you said and what the report says
A short briefing for Freestall Barn 1, requested with a focus on the fresh pen.
“Make me a two-minute briefing on Freestall Barn 1, mostly the fresh pen.”
Freestall Barn 1, fresh pen - Briefing
At a glance
At the last herd check, twelve high cell count cows in the fresh pen were tested by CMT paddle; three quarters came back positive. Body condition in the fresh pen was mostly 3.0 to 3.25, with a few thin second-calf heifers.
Open task: send the herd health report to Gary Mikkelsen. Gary asked on a call about switching the fresh pen to sand bedding.
Observations
At the last herd check, twelve high cell count cows in the fresh pen were tested by CMT paddle; three quarters came back positive. Body condition in the fresh pen was mostly 3.0 to 3.25, with a few thin second-calf heifers.
Open task: send the herd health report to Gary Mikkelsen. Gary asked on a call about switching the fresh pen to sand bedding.
After your review
Example account: Prairie Agronomy
What goes into a briefing
Pick a place, at any level you can access: a farm, a field, a dairy, a greenhouse range. PropelMapper writes the briefing from that place's visits, readings, open tasks and the mail filed on it, then reads it aloud. It takes about a minute to prepare.
Choose a length: one, two or four minutes. Add a focus if you only care about one thing, like aphid counts on the north block, and the briefing sticks to it. Every briefing has a transcript, so you can read it instead when that suits better.
Briefings for the visits coming up
The Briefings page lists your upcoming visits with a briefing next to each, or a button to make one. New briefings are marked until you have heard them all the way through, so you can see at a glance which farms you are ready for.
On the phone, the same list plays from the Briefings screen. Briefings need a connection to make and to play, so the stretch of highway before the dead spots is the time to listen.
What a briefing will not do
A briefing is made from what your team recorded at that place. If nobody has visited since spring, there is little for it to say. It is not a replacement for opening the signed report when the details matter, say before a call with a lender.
It works best for the ordinary case: a farm you see every few weeks, a herd you check monthly, a customer whose last few conversations you half remember. That is most of the week for most people who drive between farms.
“I can do this while I'm driving in between ranches, because that's all the time we have. There's no extra time. Sun up to sun down, we are working.”
Mike M.Crop Advisor, Agricultural Advisors Questions about briefings
Is Briefings on for every team?
No. Briefings are turned on per team. Once they are on, anyone on the team can make a briefing for a place they can access.
Can I listen without signal?
No. Briefings need a connection to make and to play.
Who it’s for
Crop consultants who drive between ranches all day, vets and nutritionists walking into a herd check, and sales reps who want to arrive knowing what the customer said last time.