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How to Access the Australian Feedbase Monitor (AFM) or PastureKey as a Third Party

Explains the steps that must be completed by consultants/advisors to access client's AFM data or PastureKey Subscription data via a third party subscription.

This article explains how advisors and consultants can access their client's Australian Feedbase Monitor (AFM) data, PastureKey subscription data and other farm benchmark reports.

Do you have an existing myMLA account? (Regardless of if your consultancy/advisory business has land or a registered PIC, please register to set up a myMLA account login).

This enables your account to be linked to the Cibo Labs platform to access a third party subscription and your client's shared data requests for the AFM.

 

1. Go to: Cibo Labs Website

If you have a current myMLA account, Sign in through "Your Dashboard" using the same email as your myMLA Account.

If you do not have a current myMLA account, Sign Up.

2. Creating your Cibo Labs profile

If you are new to the Cibo Labs platform, you will need to agree to our Privacy Policy and Licence Agreement. 

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You will then need to create your profile by adding your contact and company details.

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3. Activate your Third Party Subscription

You can then begin our 30 day free trial of the Third Party subscription (this does not require a linked LPA account).

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If you are an existing user of our platform, you can activate a Third Party Subscription within your dashboard. Navigate to the 'Subscriptions' section on the left hand side of the page. Click ' Subscriptions'.



Scroll to the 'Add a Subscription - Third Party Subscription'. As a consultant or advisor, you will be entitled to a 30 day free trial.

4. Once your Trial has ended

Once your trial has ended, you can choose to purchase an annual subscription for either up to 25 client farms or up to 250 client farms.  Revisit the 'Subscriptions' section in the rleft hand side of your dashboard. Under Third party Subscriptions window on the right hand side of your dashboard, You can 'Add to Cart' to purchase your subscription choice that suits your business.

Proceed to the top of the page to the shopping cart to finalise payment for your subscription.

Note: If your client shares AFM or PastureKey data with you, you will not be able to receive this without having an active subscription for Third Party access.

When you have finalized payment, you will see your active subscriptions listed in your dashboard at the top of your 'Manage Subscriptions' page.

5. Accessing Client Data

There are two options to be able to access client data as a third party user:

Option 1. Creating a new farm on clients' behalf by clicking 'Set up a new farm' in the top right corner of your dashboard. Follow the prompts on screen to map in your paddocks and property boundaries. To assist follow the remaining steps here  for set up of your clients farm and accessing and starting either the AFM or Pasturekey Subscriptions services for your created clients behalf property. You can create up to 25 client properties or up to 250 client properties, depending on your Third Party Subscription purchases.



Option 2. Your clients grant permission to share data with you. They must undertake the following steps in their account.

a) When a client who has an AFM or PastureKey subscription with Cibo Labs, they can choose to 'Share' their property data with you as a consultant/advisor via their own Cibo Labs dashboard. They must enter your email address and set your access duration for sharing their data from within there own dashboard. They have the ability to stop sharing at any point. 

Below is a snapshot of the steps your clients will complete in their dashboard to approve the sharing of their property data to you as a third party to their business

b) You will receive an email from support@cibo.com.au advising a client has shared data via Cibo Labs.

c) Log in to your Cibo Labs dashboard - Cibo Labs Website "Your Dashboard" Login

You will see the following window appear on your dashboard.

You must either accept or decline the data share to be able to view that clients' data. The clients service data will become visible and listed on your dashboard as shown below if you acccept the data share request.

When a property data is shared, you are able to see who shared the file with you, and the data access rights provided e.g. view only.

You are now ready to access your clients AFM and PastureKey data.

Accessing other Benchmark Farm reports and data downloads:

Once your third party data subscription is active, you can access any previous downloaded Data from PastureKey or AFM that has been requested by you or the client, in the "Reports" section of the dashboard. 

In this section you also have the option to purchase - benchmark farm reports also Forest Carbon, Ground cover and woody vegetation, pasture biomass reports.

To get to the reports section from the dashboard either: on the left hand side menu choose "My Farm" and select the property name you are requiring. Another menu list will appear to the right, select the second on the list "Reports" and this will take you to the Dashboard reports section. This section holds all archived data requested previously for that farm or new requested information reports and data downloads.

Alternatively directly from the dashboard you can click on the icon   "Reports" to go directly to the reports dashboard.

If you need further support, please get in contact with us via our contacts page: