Company History
We founded MetaFarms, Inc. in 2000 with the intent of developing new Web software applications
for animal agriculture. Our intent was to create a software and database foundation
that could meet the needs of multiple species – swine, beef, poultry, dairy, and
aquaculture. We focused on creating a foundation that would support enterprise-level
software applications. Our thinking was driven by the belief that the live production
component across all animal protein businesses did not need yet another single-purpose
or single point software application. What is needed is a foundation and set of
applications that “tie everything together.” The idea was to get the right foundation
in place and then build out – on top of the foundation – particular applications
targeted at particular species.
Since 2000, MetaFarms has grown into a business with a best-practice, world-class
data center; a large investment in the underlying technology used to provide our
software services – including complete virtualization of the server farms and storage
area network; a robust, underlying Web-services and database foundation for our
applications; Web applications for the swine, beef feedlot, and egg-layer industries;
a strong, diverse, and global customer base that includes some of the largest protein
businesses in the world as well as some of the smallest.