How do you label and schedule the plantings in your field? Do you work with dates or with week numbers? For my next spreadsheet tips, I’m going to be revisiting 5 spreadsheet concepts that I think you should be using in your crop planning. Concept 1 – use Week Numbers!!!! If you use the formula … More fsa tip #70 – Three ways to use Week Numbers in your crop plan
How long should you run your irrigation system for?? On average, you probably want to aim for 1 inch of water a week. If you know your sprinkler or drip tape flow rate and you know the area that you’re irrigating, you’ve got everything you need to figure out how long to run your system. … More fsa tip #69 How long should you irrigate for?
Here’s an irrigation log where you can keep track of rainfall and how much you’ve irrigated to make sure your crops get enough water. This is a pretty simple spreadsheet with a couple nifty formulas. Basically, you set the sheet up for the month and then you print it out and keep track with a … More fsa tip #68 a simple irrigation log
Let’s wrap up this harvest spreadsheet series by planning your harvest day. Now that you’ve calculated your harvest rates you can use that information to figure out how long your harvest will take. And with this spreadsheet you can allocate when in your day you have time to harvest each crop. Once you start this … More fsa tip #67 Plan your harvest day
Are you harvesting fast enough? To figure that out you need to compare your Harvest Targets and your Harvest Rates. So this spreadsheet does just that! Start off by entering your harvest targets and the spreadsheet will set your harvest thresholds. Next fill out the harvest log (just like in Spreadsheet Tip #65) and then … More fsa tip #66 Are you harvesting fast enough?
This is spreadsheet #2 in the Harvest Efficiency series. This sheet gives you a place to record how much you harvested and in how much time. The spreadsheet turns that into Units / Hour. Then using your sales prices – that becomes $ / hour! Now you don’t have to do this for all your … More fsa tip #65 Track your harvest rates
You’re probably just about to jump into a lot of harvesting on your farm. This might be a good time to stop a moment and think about your harvest efficiency. My next few spreadsheets will be about how to evaluate and improve harvest efficiency on your farm. The starting point is knowing what your harvest … More fsa tip #64 Set your $/Hour Harvest Targets
Here’s the IMAGE formula for your spreadsheets. Way back in farm spreadsheet tips #47 through #50, there were some spreadsheets to manage your online farm store products. And one of the things you could manage was the URLs for your product pictures. It can be confusing when your products start to stack up and you’ve … More fsa tip #63 add product images to your farm spreadsheets
This spreadsheet tip updates the spreadsheet from #57 That spreadsheet turned the weight of seed you wanted to harvest into how much bedfeet you needed to plant. But what if you know the seed count you want and not the seed weight? I’ve added in an average seeds per ounce column and now you can … More fsa tip #62 convert seed counts into seed weights
So you want to take garlic pre-orders? How much of your garlic should you sell while it’s still standing in the field? Today’s spreadsheet will help you figure out how much garlic you want to hold back to plant next year’s crops. And how much garlic you’ll have left to sell. There’s a safety factor … More fsa tip #61 how much garlic should you pre-sell?