10 Tools That Will Make You a Better Farmer in 2017

Staring at Excel workbooks during the final days of the year can weigh you down more than holiday dinners.

We know budgeting and planning can be overwhelming. That’s why we’ve built 10 tools to help you get through your end-of-year work. We make planning and reporting a breeze so you can take a little time off and enjoy the holidays.

Make sales forecasts the easiest part of your day. When you open Agrilyst, the first tool you’ll see is a calendar with yield forecasts. Scroll through to see a full 30-day view. You can also see expected revenue based on your unit pricing.

This is the easiest way to manage what you have growing in your facility. With seeding plans, you can create templates for crops and their growth cycles so entering data becomes as simple as clicking a button.

Visualize your facility space and see when your zones are empty or full. Never again guess how much space is available when planning.

You can assign barcodes to batches and search for crop details on your mobile device while out in the field. Barcodes can also be assigned to locations and used for moving crops into those locations.

Check off tasks faster than ever with our new task management module. Add your standard operating procedures and checklists to your task list and manage all of your operations directly from Agrilyst.

Are you measuring tank metrics (pH, EC, dissolved oxygen, water temperature, etc.) and making adjustments weekly? Not writing that information down? Now you can add your nutrient data right in Agrilyst and visualize the data to help you spot trends.

Wondering if you’re using space optimally year-round? You can check out your space optimization plan over time. Should you push your growth cycle back by a day or two? Check out your harvest task differential to see if you’re gravitating toward a longer or shorter growth cycle. Want to dig into yield data per variety? You can do that right in our new reports center. Create the reports you’d like to see and save them for future use.

Looking for a way to enter data with each batch that other growers might not store? You can create custom data fields for your batches to make sure you are tracking that information.

Using our API, you can quickly plug data in from your climate control system or nutrient sensors. Then head over to the reporting center to visualize your data. We currently integrate with Priva and Wadsworth control systems and have more integrations coming.

For better traceability, we’ve added IDs to batches so you can track crops from seed to harvest. This makes searching and finding details on specific batches easier than ever!

Happy holidays from our team to yours! If you’d like to start using these tools, you can sign up for free on our website www.agrilyst.com.

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