And he is now reaching out to farmers asking them to try his new platform for free.
Ben said: “I’ve been building a farm management platform called FarmFlow, aimed at helping farmers cut down on paperwork and simplify day-to-day management on farms.
“It focuses on things like task tracking, labour recording, and organising routine work in one place instead of it being scattered across notebooks, messages, and memory.
“The idea came directly from working on my family dairy farm here in Co. Down, where we milk cows and like most farms, a lot of time gets eaten up by admin and small inefficiencies that add up quickly over a week.”
Ben, a Year 12 pupil at Lecale Trinity Grammar in Downpatrick, added that ‘although he is 16-years-old’ he has been developing FarmFlow ‘alongside school and speaking with farmers and industry contacts across Northern Ireland’.
“It is centred around task management, compliance, how long it takes to milk and logging problems so the system knows how to address them.
“It is a matter of bringing all the data together.
“This is free for farmers to use so far,” added the teen from Castlewellan.
