FarmSoft is a task based farm management system that combines best practice farming methods with cutting edge, easy to use enterprise resource

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1 management farm diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system FarmSoft is a task based farm management system that combines best practice farming methods with cutting edge, easy to use enterprise resource automated farming solutions farm planning planning systems for traceability fruit and vegetable for fruit and vegetable farms. Hop farming capsicum farms. fruit orange banana beans tomato quality management. Farm quality control This agriculture document viticulture contains BRC HACCP EurepGAP GlobalGAP management systems. screenshots Crop and rotation basic fruit and vegetable hop farm management hop processing functionality hop descriptions. growing hop methods grain farming barley farming farmplan Please farm see the accounting full farm profit management farm cost reporting farm specifications, diary spray management or download chemical the demonstration video from

2 management Welcome! farm diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system This document provides a quick introduction to FarmSoft Farm Management ERP solution by walking you through some of the most important screens and reports in the system. Let s start with the sign in screen, each user has a username and password, and each company has a code. You can sign into the computer or laptop version, or choose to use the smartphone or tablet interface (eg: iphone, ipad, Android, Blackberry). You can even change your preferred language and color scheme at any time using the icons in the top right corner.

3 management Farm Diary farm diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system This is where all the action take place, the entire farm can be managed from these screens! From the Farm Diary you can create tasks such as spray, irrigation, planting, and harvesting. Tasks have properties such as materials & inventory, labor & employees, land, documents (photos, maps, DOCX, PDF etc), and observations. Create your own task types and customize what properties are available on them. Tasks record progress (eg: started, 10%, 50% complete, or complete etc) and have estimated and actual values for start and finish, materials, labor, and farm equipment.

4 management Farm Diary farm > in diary week food view safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system View tasks across an entire week, with a calendar for each area of land that has active crops. The Farm Diary shows tasks and their start and finish times based on the selected date range similar to the way Outlook shows appointments on the calendar. Tasks can be created in advance or retrospectively, or generated automatically by the Best Practice module. Often tasks are printed for each team or supervisor/contractor, or they are accessed via smartphone, tablet, or netbook.

5 management Farm Diary farm > in diary month food view safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system View tasks across an entire month, giving a rapid impression of active tasks. Tasks can be moved to different days or times simply by dragging the task to a new time or day on the diary. Tasks that are crossed through have been completed, tasks with a red tail (see Farm Diary day view) have used a chemical with a PHI or Re-entry period. If someone attempts to make a task that breaches the PHI or Re-entry rules, an alert will be shown and the user will not be able to create or save a task if it is in breach of your farms PHI and Re-entry rules.

6 management Farm Diary farm > Task diary details food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Double click on a task to view its details. You can control which properties are shown on each task type, specify your own fields to show, and you can even specify which employees are allowed to manipulate tasks (set permissions for read, edit, create, and delete for each task type for each employee). You can lock a task if it s critical that no modifications are made to it in the future.

7 management Farm Diary farm > Inventory diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Tasks may have estimated & actual inventory. Estimated inventory is created manually as a guide for the task, or generated by the Best Practice module. When inventory is used, batch numbers, actual quantities, and application rates (etc) are recorded on printed task sheets or entered via smartphone. Activate or de-activate inventory substitution, this will stop users from substituting brands of inventory, and force use of the Estimated Inventory. Inventory costs are automatically applied to the area of land where used, and can be reported on at any time.

8 management Farm Diary farm > Employee diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Each task tracks estimated labor requirements (created manually, or automatically by the Best Practice module), and actual labor used. The costs of labor are automatically applied to the crop. Labor can include piece rates paid for productivity (eg: a $ amount per bucket of harvested product). Employees can be rapidly added to a task using the Add Via ID function that requires only the employee ID and the number of units (hours, minutes, or count) worked. Reports provide administration with data used to generate pay in external payroll systems.

9 management Farm Diary farm > Equipment diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Track the use of tractors, spray rigs, ploughs etc. A cost per running unit can be configured for each item of equipment and is automatically applied to the area of land when used. Reports provide the current running units, calibration and status of equipment at all times. Activate or deactivate equipment substitution to force the use of correct equipment on tasks.

10 management Farm Diary farm > Land diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Each task can be performed on an entire block area or land, or on smaller areas such as selected block areas, bays, and rows. You can configure each area of land to the resolution appropriate for your farming methods.

11 management Farm Diary farm > Documents diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Add important documents to tasks, such as maps, photographs, PDF s (eg: soil analysis), and other important documentation or instructions. The documents system will manage important documents and make them available to other team members that require access. Documents can also be associated with observations. Upload documents (photographs) from mobiles devices when working in the field.

12 management Farm Diary farm > Properties diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system You can create your own fields that need to be entered on tasks when additional information is required for a farm task.

13 management Farm Diary farm > Observations diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Can create categories of farm observations, record observations from your mobile phone, tablet, or PC, report on and analyze observations to detect any historical problems or trends, or user observations to alert other team members of potential problems or maintenance requests.

14 management Farm Diary farm > Printing diary food tasks safety as instructions fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system There are many reports that can print task information in useful formats. Use the filters to generate printed reports of tasks that can be used as instruction sheets.

15 management Best Practice farm > diary Production food safety Tasks fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system The Best Practice module is used to automatically create of budgets, generate tasks, enforce your chosen best practices, and minimize data entry. Configure each individual task that is performed on the farm, and record the normal quantities of labor, materials, and commonly used equipment. Enter the common quantities used (eg: 3 pounds of Fertilizer X per hectare), when the Best Practice is implemented, the estimated quantities of materials, labor, and equipment will be generated based on the area of land that is being cultivated.

16 management Best Practice farm > diary Production food safety Method fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system A Production Method is your preferred plan for producing a selected variety of fruit, vegetable, or grain. The Production Method groups together Production Tasks and sets the day on which tasks will be performed and the normal duration per unit of area (eg: 10 minutes per acre). This allows automatic generation of tasks, budgets, and ensures your preferred best practice is enforced by adding tasks to the farm diary automatically.

17 management Best Practice farm > diary Implement food safety Best fruit Practice and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Choose an area of land and the Production Method you wish to implement. Tasks will be generated automatically in your farm diary. Automatically generated tasks can be changed at any time to match changes in weather and other farming variables. All tasks created automatically are clearly labeled as automatic tasks and can be edited to suit availability of materials and other variables. Easily move tasks for an entire crop using the Move Task feature on the farm diary.

18 management Alerts farm diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Alerts can be created that draw attention to a selected task, inventory, part, crop, block, or document. Automatically generated alerts can inform selected employees of important incidents in the farm, for example, when a selected inventory part reaches a pre-determined balance, and alert can be generated.

19 management Yield > Profile farm diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Configure the normal yield profile for each variety of produce. This information will later be used to project what yields will be generated based on your suggestion of planting/cultivation area. Specify the harvest productivity by pinpointing a percentage of total harvest ability on a daily or weekly basis.

20 management farm diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Yield > Estimates Create Estimates to project future yield, specify your demand (ie: if you receive orders in advance) and view the required planting area, suggest hypothetical planting areas to see the potential yield and more.

21 management Cost Reporting farm diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Dozens of reports and charts keep you up to date on the current and historical production costs and KPI s in real time.

22 management Yield Monitoring farm diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Easy to access reports provide real time analysis of yield and productivity.

23 management Budget Projections farm diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Budgets are created automatically by the Best Practices module, and allow monitoring of farm wide budgets, with budget analysis that can details individual crops and areas of land under cultivation. Great for cash flow planning and planning materials acquisition.

24 management Budget Overrun farm diary Analysis food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Easily identify areas of land that are going over budget, in real time.

25 management Crop Budget farm Summary diary food Chart safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Visually compare multiple farming areas actual and estimated costs.

26 management Detailed Budget farm diary Analysis food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system When a potential budget issue has been identified, use detailed analysis reports to uncover exact activities that cause budget overruns.

27 management Farm Budget farm Summary diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Summarize the budget across all farms and areas of land (with optional filters to show selected farms or areas of land).

28 management Traceability farm diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system During the farming process, all traceability information is being constantly recorded, allowing recalls based on inputted materials and labor.

29 management Traceability farm Pesticide diary food Application safety fruit Report and vegetable (USDA) harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Easily represent applications over a selected date range for a selected areas of land. USDA compliant as a Pesticide Application Report.

30 management Inventory farm diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system FarmSoft provides comprehensive management of inventory with feature including purchase order, multi-site and multi-location stock take, category and sub category based stock takes, expiring inventory management, inventory re-order alerts, inventory re-order analysis, instant reporting of cash value of stock on hand, inventory re-order level management, and stock take approval processes.

31 management Inventory farm Rules diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Configure PHI and Re-entry periods to suit your farms best practices. Set standard application rates, and water mix ratios. These configurations can be applied to individually branded parts used during the farming process, and can even be tailored to each variety of produce.

32 management Employee farm Reporting diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Monitor employee performance, and export data required to pay employees.

33 management Stay connected! farm diary food safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system The FarmSoft mobile farm management solution is the only of its type in the world, and works on all smartphones and tablet devices. Use the smartphone and tablet (iphone, ipad, Android, Blackberry) interfaces to give more mobility to employees and increase management information access at all times. Create new tasks, lookup existing tasks, enter task completion data such as actual quantities, batch numbers, start and finish times.

34 management FarmSoft farm Mobile diary Farm food Management safety fruit and vegetable harvesting management fruit packing farm quality management system Record observations, insert photographs, retrieve documents, record equipment use and more..