Crops Planning
Crops Planning is where you bring together the three key elements of your farm operation: Crops, Cultivation Zones, and Seasons. This connection is called an Allocation.
What is an Allocation?
An allocation represents a specific crop planted in a specific cultivation zone during a specific season. It answers the question: “What am I growing, where, and when?”
Example Allocation:
- Crop: Tomatoes (Roma variety)
- Zone: North Field (10 hectares)
- Season: Spring 2026
- Area: 6 hectares
- Status: Growing
This tells you that 6 hectares of the North Field are dedicated to Roma tomatoes during the Spring 2026 season, with 4 hectares still available for other crops.
How It Works
Before creating allocations, you need to have:
- Crops defined in your crop catalog (Resources → Crops)
- Cultivation Zones added to your farms (Resources → Farms → Zone)
- Seasons created for time periods (Resources → Seasons)
Once these are in place, you can create allocations to plan your entire growing season.
Key Concepts
Area and Utilization
Each cultivation zone has a total area in hectares. When you create an allocation, you specify how many hectares that crop will occupy. The system tracks:
- Used area — hectares already allocated to crops
- Available area — hectares still free for additional crops
- Utilization percentage — how much of the zone is being used
For example, if a zone is 50 hectares and you allocate 32 hectares to apples, the utilization is 64% with 18 hectares available.
Allocation Status
Each allocation has a status that reflects its current state:
| Status | Description |
|---|---|
| Planned | Crop is planned but not yet planted |
| Planted | Seeds or seedlings have been put in the ground |
| Growing | Crop is actively growing |
| Harvested | Crop has been successfully harvested |
| Failed | Crop did not succeed (weather, disease, etc.) |
Multiple Crops per Zone
You can allocate multiple crops to the same cultivation zone, as long as there is available area. This is useful for:
- Diversified planting strategies
- Companion planting
- Maximizing land use
Current Features
The current version of Crops Planning provides:
- âś… Create allocations connecting crops to zones and seasons
- âś… Track planting dates and expected harvest dates
- âś… Monitor area utilization across your zones
- âś… Filter and search allocations by various criteria
- âś… Edit allocation details as conditions change
Coming Soon (January 2026)
Growth Stage Tracking — The full version of Crops Planning will include automatic tracking of crop growth stages: Germination, Vegetative, Flowering, Fruiting, and Harvest. This will help you understand exactly where each crop is in its development cycle.
Section Contents
- Viewing Allocations — Understanding the allocations table
- Creating an Allocation — Adding new crop allocations
- Editing Allocations — Updating allocation information
- Future Features — Growth stages and advanced tracking