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?
This month’s spreadsheet tips are going to be about pre-selling your garlic. There are definitely a lot of considerations if you want to run a pre-order. How do you do this in your online store? How much should you charge? Is it risky? Will anyone buy in advance? But really the place to start is … More fsa tip #60 how much garlic is in your field?
And what varieties should you save for seed? You should start with varieties you’re already growing. And all of that information is already in your seed order. Add a column to your seed order to indicate if a crop is F1 or OP. Then filter to only see your OPs. These are the seeds you … More fsa tip #59 saving seed can start with your seed order
This started as a spreadsheet to show you how you can harvest a crop first as a vegetable and then let it go to seed and harvest the seed too. For leafy greens, this can often double the value of the crop or more. But then i realised that this spreadsheet worked just as well … More fsa tip #58 Stack harvests for more sales per bedft
You can crop plan for seed saving just like you plan for any other crop. All you need is the amount you want to harvest and a yield estimate. Just be careful – seed yields are a bit more variable than crop yields. (Variety also makes a big difference.) Of course, seed is not perishable … More fsa tip #57 How much should you grow for seed?
Isn’t crop planning sweet when you’ve got good yield data? And it’s extra sweet if that data is in the same units you use for your crop planning. (At the Farmer Spreadsheet Academy, that would be yields in bedfeet or bedmeter.) But what do you do if you find crop yields in other units? This … More fsa tip #56 Convert yields into bedfeet (or bedmeter)
Yes, you can directly share your spreadsheet and all those pivot tables you created with your farm team. But if you just want them to have tomorrow’s planting list, you might be better off giving them a PDF. PDF files are ???? Easy to email/text/DM ???? Easy to read ???? Easy to print They are … More fsa tip #55 Spreadsheet PDF power
Sometimes something goes wrong in your Google sheets. A formula is erased, a week of harvest data is deleted, all the formatting gets reset, something strange in your neighbourhood. When you just notice that you made a mistake, you can use UNDO (Control+Z) to reverse the last actions you made. But once you close the … More FSA Tip #54 How to save a Farm Spreadsheet when things go wrong
Once your farm team hits a certain size, it can be easy to forget someone when you’re emailing the team or sharing spreadsheets. Setting up a Google group for your farm team lets you easily make sure everyone is included in all your messages. If you have different crews on your farm, you could also … More FSA Tip #53 Emailing your Farm Team
Let’s say you have a spreadsheet – maybe it’s a crop plan, perhaps it’s a harvest log, or it could be some sales records – whatever it is, you want to share it with your farm team so they can use that information to get your job done. But you’re also afraid of what folks … More FSA Tip #52 Sharing/Protecting Farm Google Sheets