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Crop record keeping & lifecycle management

Your crop history should not depend on who remembers.

A notebook tells part of the story. A worker’s phone holds another part. When you need to know what happened to a particular crop, finding the full picture can take longer than the field work itself.

Crop records showing varieties, planting dates, growing sections and stages
Actual application screen · Demonstration data

Know what was planted, where and when

Start with the crop, its variety, planting date and growing section. A section belongs to a land parcel, and each parcel belongs to your farm business. Whether you grow tomatoes under cover and kale outdoors, or operate at several sites, the records stay attached to the right crop and location.

  • Choose a crop template to reuse planned details instead of starting from a blank form.
  • Record water requirements, estimated harvest dates and estimated yield when those figures are known.
  • Search and filter crop records as the number of plantings grows.

Follow the work between planting and harvest

Planting is only the beginning. Open a crop to review its lifecycle and record activities such as weeding, watering, fertilizing, manure application and observations. A dated history gives you something more useful than “we did it sometime last week”: a record you can review with your team.

  • Keep field observations beside the crop they describe.
  • Review crop stages and recorded activities before planning the next task.
  • Use the history when investigating a problem or preparing a production report.

Keep planting-material evidence when it matters

Traceability can be enabled or disabled to suit the operation. When enabled, capture the material type, variety, batch or lot reference, producer, supplier and receipt evidence. Seeds, seedlings and cuttings are covered, together with other supported propagation materials. In-house propagation needs its source or mother-stock reference.

  • Purchased seedlings can include the nursery or planter registration details and official receipt.
  • Keep source documents private to authorized members of the farm.
  • Configure market-specific assurance requirements when you supply buyers with particular standards.

A practical place to start

You do not need to reconstruct every past season before using the system. Add your current growing parcels and sections, then record the crops that are in the ground today. Start logging the next watering, weeding or treatment event. Over time, the history becomes more useful because the records are made close to the work.

  • Begin with one active crop and its growing section.
  • Use drafts when details are incomplete.
  • Review the crop record at the next team planning session.

Questions about crop records

Do I have to provide seed receipts for every crop?

Planting-material traceability is optional. When you enable it, the relevant source details and evidence are required. Existing recorded evidence is retained when traceability is disabled.

Can I use this for crops that are not grown for export?

Yes. Crop records and lifecycle management are useful for local markets too. Destination-specific export checks need to be configured for the crop and market; the system does not give a blanket compliance guarantee.

Start with one useful record today.

Add your growing area, record an active crop and build from there.

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