Crop recording app?
- Thread starter David.
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- Sticky out bit by liverpool
Field margin makes sense to me. Also get a message every now and then asking if anything can be improved not saying they always listen but some sensible stuff shows up on it.
They can transfer stuff over if you want everything from previous years on Greenlight but I think abit of a faff. I just kept everything old on gatekeeper which is on the desktop and stopped paying the £1200/year they were getting out of me.
Hindsight
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Fundamentally Gatekeeper is an excellent accounting and financial management software that happens to do crop recording. I use it all the time - is clunky and no short cuts. I also recently started with Greenlight too. And Geopholia on one farm. All have pros and cons. I would love to go back to paper triplicate recommendation sheets. Still have a stock and do get used occasionally.
- Location
- Sunny Scotland
Excel record sheets probably as good as anything on a smaller acreage? Especially if you can link it to onedrive or Google drive and update on your phone as you go. GLGM is fine but hasn't got the ability to do Scottish NVZs on it and if you want the chemical checker if you do your own cropwalking that's £600. I was always a bit worried about being able to reconcile the amount of chemical you bought on GLGM with your applications in case of an inspection but maybe they have sorted this already.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Further to this, Herdwatch rang back about a demo (which I've yet to log in to). They apparently have an arable version, doing farm mapping and input recording, and have a development team working on adding more functionality (which will likely increase the price by an as yet unknown amount). If they don't go overboard on unnecessary features and pricing, it might be of interest?
Free demo is available to have a play... https://herdwatch.co.uk/pricing/
Thanks all.
The more I think about this, the more attractive just writing down the days work in my day book becomes.
It is far quicker than all the adding of new products, and negotiating multiple drop down boxes for each item you want to use.
Last time I looked, provided reference is made to Lerap, weather/time and Mapp No. of products used, it is as legally compliant as any other method.
Field track remains a good way to record fert applications, because it averages product over area treated and allows individual product usage per field info to be easily collated for nutrient plan and printed off.
The more I think about this, the more attractive just writing down the days work in my day book becomes.
It is far quicker than all the adding of new products, and negotiating multiple drop down boxes for each item you want to use.
Last time I looked, provided reference is made to Lerap, weather/time and Mapp No. of products used, it is as legally compliant as any other method.
Field track remains a good way to record fert applications, because it averages product over area treated and allows individual product usage per field info to be easily collated for nutrient plan and printed off.
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ollie989898
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This is the issue- you subscribe to these systems and let them save your data to their cloud and you are the one being farmed.
I'm OK with Microsoft knowing what I computer I use Windows on and what apps of theirs I use and how but none of that has any commercial value. Sending a company details of your spray purchases and applications representing many thousands of pounds worth of product is something else entirely.
ollie989898
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To be honest a book of blank crop recommendation sheets with the boxes you fill in after each job and then filing them could work, as would doing the same on something like OneNote using a tablet and pen- saved forever then and no boxes of paper in your office.
Agronomist is still on record sheets here, same ones as last 20yrs.
He concurs about all the multiple drop down boxes being a pain in the arse, to achieve same as what 10 seconds with a pen does.
But obviously it isn't for everyone, plenty like an email rec that they can feed into Muddy Boots, Gatekeeper, or whatever.
He concurs about all the multiple drop down boxes being a pain in the arse, to achieve same as what 10 seconds with a pen does.
But obviously it isn't for everyone, plenty like an email rec that they can feed into Muddy Boots, Gatekeeper, or whatever.
ollie989898
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I used to use old paper rec sheets to record as crop walking notes. Quite therapeutic and it made you work in a similar or familiar kind of pattern.
- Location
- North West
Been using greenlight for at least 6 or more years now and it really has come a long way. I generally use it on my iPad when spraying but can access on my phone or laptop if needed. Spray recs straight form (indi) agronomist and no paper sheets to lose or file and my agronomist can see whether I’m up to date with any applications.
Also now has stock auditing so I know exactly what stock I have (and my agronomist can see also) which is handy for keeping stuff used up.
And if you really want to get into the nuts and blots of it you can input all your costings and see exactly what your cop is for every crop and field. Works for seed, fert and also costings for each job/pass of a machine.
It can make some interesting reading at the end of the year!
Basic package starts from £265 and personal I think it’s worth every penny when I’m out spraying.
- Location
- Scotland
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
My field records are kept using Google forms. You can make a record form easily, and the data is posted to a spreadsheet on the Google drive. I use my phone to post the information when ever I need to. You can attach photos (depending on what you need) .
Best of all it costs me nothing.
I have a form with basic information, date, field number (selected from a drop down menu) and a menu of operations. I have a free text submission, so can add some comments about what I'm doing/why and an option to add photo.
Best of all it costs me nothing.
I have a form with basic information, date, field number (selected from a drop down menu) and a menu of operations. I have a free text submission, so can add some comments about what I'm doing/why and an option to add photo.
ollie989898
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- Location
- Scotland
Does fieldtrack do Scottish NVZ reports?