CropPlanning Crop planning software for small farmers and serious gardeners
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Crop planning software for small farmers and serious gardeners CropPlanning allows you to plan for and manage the myriad crops, varieties and plantings required to keep a modern, intensive market garden producing throughout the growing season. CropPlanning is a free and cross-platform (Mac OS X, Windows, Unix, etc) desktop application that allows small farmers and gardeners to: create, duplicate and delete crops and plantings; inherit data from other plantings and crops, key in a few data and lThese are all possible and new features are being added all the time. Here are some key features of "CropPlanning": · familiar, spreadsheet-like interface · easily create and print weekly field planting and GH seeding lists · sort and filter your crop plans so you only see what you want to see · powerful database makes it easier to work with your plans and keep data linked together · easily keep track of whether something has been planted, transplanted and harvested · easily keep track of the actual and planned dates upon which something is planted, transplanted and harvested · data can be "linked" from crops ==> varieties ==> individual plantings · enter certain values and have others calculated automatically; for example: enter a number of beds or row-feet to plant and the program can calculate how many transplants you'll need, a desired yield quantity and the program can tell you how many row-feet or beds you should plant, enter your desired date of harvest and the program can estimate when to plant · import & export data · bed and row lengths can be set for every field or even for every bed · New! Missed a planting? Don't delete it, just ignore it (ie, "skip" it) to get it out of the way. · New! Plantings can be explicitly marked as direct seeded or transplanted and can have different planting data accordingly. What's New in This Release: · It's much easier for new users to get started. They are stepped through a couple of introductory questions and settings before the program creates their first crop plan for them. · For crops and varieties which can be both direct seeded (DS) and transplanted (TP), you can now enter different information for either case. · Plantings (individual entries in a crop plan) are now explicitly marked as being either DS or TP. If the crop or variety has different information for DS vs TP (see previous point), the appropriate info is displayed and used in calculations. · There is a completely new, much easier to understand mechanism for creating, selecting and deleting crop plans. Additionally, crop plans can now have years and descriptions attached to them, making it very easy to manage different crop plans which you might create. · Plantings now have "actual" dates, as well as "planned" dates. Recording the actual date on which you planted, transplanted or picked something is better for record keeping and it allows the program to better represent the reality of what's happening on the farm and in the greenhouse. · Plantings can now be marked as having been planted, transplanted or picked ... "completed", in other words. These work even if you don't use the "actual" date mechanism mentioned above. · Plantings can be marked as "ignored" or skipped. They're not deleted, but they won't show up in most of the lists or in the print outs. This is useful for when a planting is just too late to be worth it, or maybe something just doesn't make sense anymore. · The program is better at remembering what you were doing the last time you used the program; what plan you were working on, which columns you were viewing, which -- if any -- of the predefined filters you had in place, to name a few. · Crops, Varieties and Plantings now track more data fields. · Added preliminary support for importing CSV data for crop plans and the CropDB, (Thanks to volunteer contributor: sm_zl_kimi) · We've added a number of settings to let you better customize the program. · Crop plans can now have spaces and punctuation in their names. · You can now enter your own farm name, which is used in the PDF output.

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