Farm Maintenance

Farm maintenance, also known as agricultural maintenance, is the process of proactively planning and performing farm equipment maintenance tasks to reduce repair costs, maximize equipment lifespan, and ensure your equipment operates efficiently.

With such strict timelines in the agricultural industry, farm maintenance can help you:

1) Prevent breakdowns, unscheduled downtime, and accidents

2) Stick to your planting, fertilizing, and harvesting schedules

3) Maintain the quality of your end produce and products.

Farm maintenance also helps to protect the value of your equipment, so you get a better deal at trade-in.

As an example, planned maintenance, such as checking and changing the fluids of farm vehicles, is likely to be the best approach for critical equipment that is expensive to repair. On the other hand, unplanned maintenance, such as replacing a broken door on a storehouse, makes sense when you’re dealing with equipment that you can repair quickly and cheaply or bypass altogether.

There are several benefits of implementing a good farm maintenance strategy.

First, regular maintenance can mitigate the risk of failures to reduce your repair costs. Frequently servicing your assets can also increase their lifecycle so you don’t need to replace them so often. You’re also likely to see a reduction in downtime, with fewer faults and failures that interrupt your processes. Finally, regular maintenance can reduce the risk of accidents and improve workplace culture. Keeping up with maintenance tasks can be difficult when you run a busy farm. Not only are you on a tight schedule but many farmers also use outdated systems such as notebooks and spreadsheets rather than dedicated computerized maintenance management software (CMMS). Your farm maintenance plan is a document that defines the proactive work that you need to do to maintain all your assets, from your vehicles to your buildings. It should include an exhaustive inventory of your assets along with the specific maintenance tasks you intend to perform and at what intervals.

Work

Think about the jobs you need to do to maintain each asset and determine the priority of those tasks before the maintenance work begins.

Instructions

We will you do the work ! Creating proper instructions along with a list of the tools and any safety equipment your maintenance team needs can help you complete the work safely, efficiently, and to the necessary quality standards.

Schedules

We maintenance schedule is all about when you do the work. For example, you might do tasks such as cleaning, lubricating, and inspecting equipment weekly, while other tasks might make more sense at the start of a season or when an asset reaches a certain mileage or number of usage hours.

Workers

We plan and also identify who is going to perform each maintenance task. You might have the necessary skills in-house, but if not, think about what jobs you should leave for specialist contractors and request quotes and tenders for the work

Inventory

Think about the spare parts required to perform each maintenance task and list them so the maintenance worker knows exactly what they’re going to need. Then check the spare parts are in stock, and if not, order more.we maintain history can help to inform your future part consumption.