The report is generated from the events you record on the animal anyway, not from a second table. When you sell an animal – from the Business (Pro) plan – 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.
| Cattle | Birth Arrival Departure Death Slaughter (as departure or death report) Export |
|---|---|
| Pigs | Arrival Departure Census report Death report (ASF status procedure, from the Business plan) |
| Sheep & Goats | Arrival Departure Census report |
| Antibiotics report (TAM) for cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys | TAM notification (half-yearly until 2026, annual from 2027) Usage-type declaration Withdrawal of a TAM report |
The sync pulls what the database holds on your farm and takes it over into FarmManager — stock, movements and census reports, plus BVD findings and the therapy frequency determined by the authority.
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 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.
The same retrieval runs for sheep and goats — movements and the census report come from the database into your farm.
FarmManager reads the BVD ear-notch findings of your farm and the BVD status that HI-Tier holds for your cattle into the mandatory examinations – read-only, every morning with automatic sync. If a bovine is listed in HI-Tier as BVD-positive or as a PI animal, everyone who may view the mandatory examinations is notified. If your access is not allowed to read the findings, FarmManager skips them and says so.
FarmManager reads the value that the authority has determined for your farm under § 57 TAMG from HI-Tier – daily during the publication period with automatic sync, otherwise at the press of a button. If it is above one of the nationwide key figures, the draft of the action plan under § 58 TAMG is created. If your access lacks the authorisation, you enter the value from the authority's letter.
You decide per farm whether the sync runs at the push of a button or automatically. In automatic mode, reports go out by themselves when you save, and between 6 a.m. and midnight FarmManager fetches stock and movements from HI-Tier every 30 minutes.
For a chosen reference date, FarmManager sets your cattle stock against the one HI-Tier holds for your farm – animals that appear on one side only, and animals with a different date of birth, sex, breed or arrival date. The comparison is read-only; with automatic sync it runs weekly by itself.
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 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 and, for each calf, when you record a birth. Cattle ear tags are checked for the number of digits, German ones additionally for the federal-state code.
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.
The connection is set up per farm. If you run several farms, you set up each one individually — separate access, separate reports.
Your HI-Tier holding number and PIN are stored on the farm profile, along with your co-user ID if you work with one.
Manual means you trigger the sync yourself. Automatic means reports go out by themselves when you save and FarmManager fetches the status from HI-Tier every 30 minutes between 6 a.m. and midnight.
Administrators turn on TAM themselves in the farm's HI-Tier dialog. If you want, FarmManager sends a TAM notification (half-yearly until 2026, annual from 2027) 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. You set between 1 and 14 how many days before the deadline FarmManager sends it itself; the default is 3.
For pig farmers, the same dialog offers participation in the voluntary ASF status procedure from the Business (Pro) plan. If it is switched on, FarmManager creates the draft of the animal loss report per calendar week, reminds you of open weeks and submits the report with automatic 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.
Try the connection with your own access, or take a look first in the live demo — no sign-up required.
