SOFTWARE > CROP PLANNING
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Detailed planning, easy to use... Available anywhere, anytime... Scalable to meet your needs... |
Every crop cycle is different, and when the unpredictable happens a good crop plan helps growers make informed, knowledgeable choices. That's a competitive advantage.
In the E4 Crop Planning software module, growers plan their crops field by field. They plan the activities that will take place over the course of the crop year—from soil testing to fertilizer application, from seeding to tissue sampling, from harvest to transport, and everything in between. Each activity is given a tentative start date, application rates are estimated, and the system computes all planned costs.
As the crop year progresses, the plan is updated and refined. Actual activity dates, application rates and costs are computed, so the grower has a real-time ongoing calculation of actual vs. planned expenditure. This is powerful information, not only in the current crop year, but for the year to come when planning starts again.
Retailers and farming operations managing many fields will benefit from the addition of the E4 Scheduling software module, which represents field activities on a regional map and facilitates efficient vendor assignment and reassignment.
How it works:
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If field parameters are not already in the system, customers configure them using the E4 Gateway module. |
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Customers can create crop plans from scratch. More often they start with crop-specific templates provided by E4. |
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For each field activity, customers specify details—planned start date, products to be applied, planned rates of application, service costs, etc. Activities involving product applications simply prompt for application rates per acre. The system computes overall activity costs per field. |
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As the crop year progresses, growers and/or vendors record actual activity data in the crop plan. This data can be entered manually, but it is often captured by onboard field monitors and uploaded in bulk. |
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Planned vs. actual cost and quantity reports can be generated at any time. All activity data is stored in the E4 Data Bank and can be used to refine and improve planning the following year. |