Agriculture & agribusiness

Farm management software that knows what each acre cost and yielded

Covadesk follows every planting from inputs to harvest — cost per acre, yield per acre and cost per kilo — and every herd from feed to milk, on the same system as your stores, payroll, outgrower payments and finance.

Built for: Commercial farms, dairy operations, horticulture exporters, out-grower schemes and agro-processors.

Covadesk agriculture dashboard with crops in the ground, cost per acre, harvests due and livestock

The problems we solve

Where farms and agribusinesses lose money — and how Covadesk closes the gap

  • No idea which field made money

    Inputs, labour and machinery are costed to the crop cycle on the plot that used them, so profit is known per field and per season.

  • Harvests overdue in the field

    Cycles past their expected harvest date are flagged before the crop is lost.

  • Milk and feed in separate books

    Feed cost per litre is computed from the same herd records as milk recorded.

  • Produce spoiling in cold storage

    Cold-chain readings out of range are surfaced as breaches on the dashboard.

See it in action

What farms and agribusinesses see in Covadesk

Real Covadesk screens, shown with sample data.

Covadesk agriculture dashboard with crops in the ground, cost per acre, harvests due and livestock

What is in the ground, what it is costing, and what the herd is producing.

Features

Everything farms and agribusinesses need, in one system

Farms and plots

The land, and what each field is worth to you.

  • Farms with tenure, location and total area
  • Plots with mapped area, soil, irrigation and current crop
  • Lifetime cycles and history per plot

Crop cycles

One planting on one plot — and what it has cost so far.

  • Cycle from planned through planted, growing and harvested
  • Inputs, labour and services costed to the cycle
  • Cost per acre, yield per acre and cost per kilo
  • Varieties with expected yield and days to harvest

Livestock and dairy

Herds and individual animals, with the numbers that pay for them.

  • Herds by species and purpose; individual animal records
  • Milk recorded per herd, with feed cost per litre
  • Breeding records with expected birth dates from species gestation

Harvest, intake and cold chain

From the field to the store.

  • Harvest recorded into inventory by batch
  • Outgrower intake, grading and settlement via Milling Intake
  • Cold-chain monitoring with breach alerts

Processing and sales

For agribusinesses that add value.

  • Batch production with bills of materials
  • Sales, invoicing and receivables through the core modules
  • Inputs purchased against approved requisitions

How it flows

One process, start to finish

  1. 01

    Plan

    Set up farms, plots and the season’s crop cycles.

  2. 02

    Plant

    Issue seed and inputs from stores to the cycle.

  3. 03

    Grow

    Labour, spraying and services cost to the cycle as they happen.

  4. 04

    Harvest

    Record the harvest into stock; yield and cost per kilo follow.

  5. 05

    Process or sell

    Produce goes to production or straight to sales.

  6. 06

    Review

    Profit by plot, crop and season from the ledger.

Modules included

The Agriculture & Agribusiness pack

Farms and agribusiness — crops, livestock, harvest and inputs.

Industry modules for farms and agribusinesses

Switched on by the pack from day one, on top of the backbone below.

  • Production (Batch/Process)

    Operations

    Batch and process production with yield you can trust

    • Bills of materials and process stages with approval
    • Production batches from planned to closed, with actual input and output
    • Premix and fortification recording
    • In-process QA and non-conformance logging
    • Daily milling, yield, wastage, shift and OEE reports
  • Milling Intake & Weighbridge

    Operations

    From the weighbridge to the silo, every kilo accounted for

    • Weighbridge tickets — gross, tare and net captured at the gate
    • Intake sampling and grading against moisture and quality tolerances
    • Grade-based pricing and accept or reject decisions with reasons
    • Silo readings for temperature, moisture and CO₂
    • Outgrower register with advances, deliveries and settlements
  • Agriculture & Agribusiness

    Operations

    What is in the ground, what it is costing and what it yields

    • Farms and plots with area, tenure and irrigation
    • Crop cycles with planting, inputs, cost per acre and harvest
    • Varieties and yield per acre against expectation
    • Herds and individual animals, with milk and feed records
    • Cold-chain monitoring for produce

The backbone every Covadesk business runs on

The same core modules run across every industry, so purchasing, stock, sales, accounts and people share one database and one version of the truth.

  • Procurement

    Operations

    Buy with control, from requisition to supplier payment

    • Purchase requisitions routed for approval by value, branch and role
    • Requests for quotation with side-by-side supplier comparison and award
    • Purchase orders that inherit item VAT rates and approved prices
    • Goods received notes with QA tolerance bands for weight, moisture and grade
    • Three-way match of PO, GRN and supplier invoice before anything is paid
    • Supplier advances tracked and recovered against later invoices
    • Supplier register with categories, terms and performance history
  • Inventory

    Operations

    One stock figure that finance and the store agree on

    • Multi-warehouse stock levels, by item, location and batch
    • Batch and expiry tracking with QA holds that block issue until released
    • Inter-branch and inter-warehouse transfers with in-transit stock
    • Stock takes with variance approval and automatic write-off postings
    • Reorder levels per warehouse and full movement history per item
    • Stock ageing and valuation reports that tie to the general ledger
    • Units of measure with conversions — buy in bags, sell in kilos
  • Sales

    Commercial

    Quote, sell, invoice and collect in one flow

    • Quotations that convert to sales orders, delivery notes and invoices
    • Counter POS and counter sales with cash, M-Pesa, card and voucher tenders
    • Price lists and customer categories with credit limits enforced at order time
    • Credit notes, returns and receipts — including refunds on the receipt
    • AR ageing, dunning and credit-override approvals with an audit trail
    • Van sales with load-out, field selling and end-of-day reconciliation
    • Sales commissions and a sales register by channel and period
  • Finance & Accounting

    Finance

    A general ledger every module posts into as it happens

    • Chart of accounts, accounting periods and period close
    • Journals with approval, plus automatic postings from every module
    • Bank accounts, statement import and bank reconciliation
    • Supplier payments, petty cash and AP ageing
    • VAT and withholding tax computed at the transaction line, with returns data
    • Budgets by account and cost centre, with budget-versus-actual
    • Trial balance, profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow on demand
  • Human Resources

    People

    Your people, their records and their requests in one place

    • Employee records with contracts and organisation structure
    • Leave policies, balances, requests and approvals — with self-service
    • Attendance capture and shift rosters
    • Appraisals and disciplinary cases with a recorded outcome
    • An HR service desk for employee requests
  • Payroll

    People

    Kenyan payroll that is right the first time

    • Pay runs with maker-checker approval before release
    • PAYE on current KRA bands with personal relief
    • NSSF, SHIF and Affordable Housing Levy calculated per employee
    • Salary structures, allowances, deductions and staff loans
    • Statutory return files and payslips generated from the same run
    • Payroll journals posted straight to the general ledger
  • Fixed Assets

    Finance

    A fixed asset register your auditor will sign

    • Asset register by category, location and custodian
    • Scheduled depreciation posted to the ledger
    • Disposals with gain or loss calculated and booked
    • Transfers between branches with history
  • Delivery & Fleet

    Operations

    Get orders out of the gate and onto the road

    • Dispatch runs that load delivery notes onto a vehicle and driver
    • Vehicle and driver registers with documents and expiry dates
    • Delivery routes and run status from loading to complete
    • Fuel issues and vehicle maintenance logged per vehicle
  • Reports & Analytics

    Insights

    Answers across every module, without exporting to Excel

    • Executive dashboard with cash, sales, stock, output and receivables
    • Ready-made payroll, HR, sales, stock and finance reports
    • Saved reports, with exports to CSV, Excel and PDF
  • Integrations

    Settings

    Connected to the systems Kenyan businesses depend on

    • KRA eTIMS invoice and credit-note transmission with retry and a send log
    • M-Pesa C2B, STK Push and B2C through Daraja, matched to customer accounts
    • SMS and email notifications
    • Webhooks and API keys for your own systems

Add more when you need it

Any other module can be switched on for your organisation — same data, nothing to re-implement.

  • CRM
  • Projects & Job Costing
  • Warehouse Management
  • Manufacturing (Work Orders & MRP)
  • Quality Management (QMS/LIMS)
  • Maintenance (CMMS)
  • Contract Management
  • Documents
  • Customer & Supplier Portals
  • Helpdesk / Service
  • BI & Workflow Builder
  • DigiSales (Field Sales)
  • Construction & Contracting
  • Real Estate & Property
  • SACCO / Microfinance
  • Logistics / 3PL
  • Fuel Stations & Petroleum
  • Automotive Workshops
  • Professional Services
  • NGO / Donor-Funded
  • Hospitality

Compliance

Kenyan rules, built in

KRA eTIMS
Produce invoices transmitted to eTIMS.
Payroll statutory
Farm payroll with PAYE, NSSF, SHIF and Housing Levy.
M-Pesa
Outgrower payments and customer receipts through M-Pesa.

Questions

Covadesk for farms and agribusinesses: common questions

Can Covadesk calculate cost per acre and yield per acre?

Yes. Every input, labour cost and service is costed to the crop cycle on the plot that used it. With the harvest recorded, Covadesk gives cost per acre, yield per acre and cost per kilo for each cycle.

Does it support dairy farming?

Yes. Herds and individual animals are recorded with milk production, feed cost per litre and breeding dates computed from gestation.

Can we manage outgrowers?

Yes. Outgrower deliveries are weighed, graded and settled against advances through the Milling Intake module, which agribusiness packs include.

See Covadesk running for farms and agribusinesses

Book a 30-minute demo. Bring a real problem — a stock variance you can’t explain, a payroll run that takes three days — and we’ll show you how it works in Covadesk.

Prefer to talk? Call +254 117 390 922 or email info@fecn.co.ke