HI-Tier

HI-Tier reports, straight from your live herd

What you record on the animal becomes the report — and what is stored in HI-Tier, Germany's national livestock database, comes back into your farm. No second list, no retyping, using your farm's own HI-Tier access.
HI-Tier

What FarmManager reports to HI-Tier

The report is generated from the events you record on the animal anyway, not from a second table. When you sell an animal (from Pro), FarmManager can prepare the departure as a report right away, instead of making you enter it a second time — it is transmitted with automatic sync.

What FarmManager reports to HI-Tier
Cattle
Birth Arrival Departure Death Slaughter
Pigs
Arrival Departure Census report Death report (Pro)
Sheep & Goats
Arrival Departure Census report
Antibiotics report (TAM) for cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys
Half-year report with animal count and usage type Usage-type declaration Withdrawal of a TAM report

What comes back from HI-Tier

The sync pulls what the database holds on your farm and takes it over into FarmManager — stock, movements and census reports.

Import your animal stock

The cattle stock held in HI-Tier is imported into FarmManager — with life events such as birth, arrival and departure, death and slaughter. If the mother is also recorded in FarmManager, she is linked straight away. You don't start from zero, and you don't retype a single ear-tag number.

Pig movements and census report

Pig movements and census reports are read in from HI-Tier and taken over into the registers. If HI-Tier holds the same entry with different values, the state from HI-Tier applies.

Sheep and goat movements and census report

The same retrieval runs for sheep and goats — movements and the census report come from the database into your farm.

Manual or automatic sync

You decide per farm whether the sync runs at the push of a button or automatically whenever something changes.

Rejections and errors with severity level

If HI-Tier rejects a report, a transmission or a retrieval fails, or a permission is missing, a visible entry with a severity level is created instead of a silent failure. It names the cause, for a rejection the text from HI-Tier, and takes you to the affected record in one click.

Holding numbers and ear tags from HI-Tier

Holding numbers are looked up in the HI-Tier directory and shown together with the farm name, instead of being typed in blind. With an existing HI-Tier connection, one click fills in the next free ear-tag number from the ranges HI-Tier has allocated to your farm when you create a bovine animal. Cattle ear tags are checked for the number of digits, German ones additionally for the federal-state code.

Reporting deadlines in view

With an existing HI-Tier connection, FarmManager shows for cattle which reportable events haven't reached HI-Tier yet, and reminds you when the deadline gets closer or has passed. Which deadline applies is set out in the German regulation — what you find here is how it stays in view.

  • For cattle, reportable events that haven't been sent yet stay visible, instead of getting lost in the animal's history — a filter shows only the due and overdue ones.
  • Every reportable cattle event carries its deadline and its status — reported, deadline running, due soon or overdue.
  • If you have reported an event directly in the HI-Tier portal, you mark it as reported; the deadline reminder then no longer applies.
  • If a cattle report becomes due soon or overdue, FarmManager reminds the roles responsible for it on the farm, by email and inside the system. The email names the animals involved, so nobody has to go searching for what it's about.
  • For pigs, sheep and goats, FarmManager also reminds you of the annual census report — provided a census report for the species is already in the register from earlier.

How the connection is set up

  1. 1

    Turn on HI-Tier for the farm

    The connection is set up per farm. If you run several farms, you set up each one individually — separate access, separate reports.

  2. 2

    Enter your holding number and login details

    Your HI-Tier holding number and PIN are stored on the farm profile, along with your co-user ID if you work with one.

  3. 3

    Choose the sync mode

    Manual means you trigger the sync yourself. Automatic means it runs on its own whenever something changes.

  4. 4

    Turn on TAM (optional)

    Administrators turn on TAM themselves in the farm's HI-Tier dialog. If you want, FarmManager sends a half-year report that you have marked as ready on its own — but only with automatic sync. In manual mode you submit it with a click from the report list.

  5. 5

    First sync

    After you save, the first sync starts and imports the stock held in HI-Tier. From then on it runs in the mode you chose.

What your farm needs to bring

  • A holding number under which your farm is registered in HI-Tier.
  • Your own HI-Tier access with a PIN. FarmManager does not create an account for you and does not replace logging in to HI-Tier.
  • A willingness to check the reports. FarmManager reports on your behalf using your login details — responsibility for the content and timeliness of the report stays with your farm.
Animal stock in FarmManager with ear-tag numbers per animal
Animal stock in FarmManager with ear-tag numbers per animal
Pig movements in FarmManager
Pig movements in FarmManager
Pig census report in FarmManager
Pig census report in FarmManager
Sheep and goat stock in FarmManager
Sheep and goat stock in FarmManager
Census report for sheep and goats in FarmManager
Census report for sheep and goats in FarmManager
Recorded treatments in FarmManager as the basis for the TAM evaluation
Recorded treatments in FarmManager as the basis for the TAM evaluation
HI-Tier

HI-Tier with FarmManager

See the HI-Tier connection on your own farm

Try the connection with your own access, or take a look first in the live demo — no sign-up required.