Abstract
Nowadays, different types of farm management information systems (FMIS) are being used in practice in several sectors of farming, such as dairy, arable, fruits, vegetables, and meat farming. The goal of this research is to identify, evaluate, and synthesize existing FMISs in the Dutch dairy sector and present the state–of–the–art. We performed a multivocal literature review (MLR) to find sources both in scientific and grey literature. A grey literature search was adopted because most of the FMISs were not reported in the scientific literature. To support and improve the effectiveness of the MLR process, an online survey was first sent to Dutch dairy farmers to identify the FMISs that are being used in practice. With the help of the MLR process, we identified 50 FMISs used by Dutch dairy farmers. We identified 33 features of these FMISs and listed the advantages and disadvantages of the FMISs.
Highlights
Many businesses use specific software systems that provide modules for their particular sector
This study presented Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS) used in the Dutch dairy sector and their main features using the multivocal literature review (MLR) methodology, which is different from the systematic literature review (SLR) methodology [10] that is widely used in past studies
Using both the survey study and MLR approaches this study showed the different types of data managed by the different types FMIS systems
Summary
Many businesses use specific software systems that provide modules for their particular sector. In order to advance the state-of-the-art and build robust software solutions for a given sector of the industry, quite substantial research in information systems is being conducted per sector An example of such a domain-specific information systems research can be found in the agricultural sector, research on Farm Management Information Systems (FMISs) [1,2,3]. The farmer can, for example, receive health updates about his cows using an FMIS, and based on that fact he can change the supply of minerals to the cows Such an update on the health of the cows might provide the farmer with the information he would not have had by checking the cows visually. This research only focuses on FMISs that are developed for use in the dairy sector
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