Allocate a crop

Once a field is added, it must be activated within a season so that jobs and records may be made against it. This is done by allocating a crop and working area to the field.

A field may be cropped as a whole field with a single crop, or with multiple crops. If there are multiple crops, the field’s cropping must be split to reflect the different crops. Field cropping can be split to allow you to manage multiple production crops in a field, or to record other areas such as game cover or environmental schemes.

Before adding any cropping information, please ensure you are in the correct cropping season.

To allocate a single crop to a whole field:

1. Open the fields module
2. Select the field required
3. Select the details tab
4. Move down to the cropping form, and click Setup Areas
5. In the pane that appears, enter a suffix if required. This is optional, and will appear after the field name if entered.
6. Enter the cropped area. This is often different to the full area – for example, a field with a full area of 12ha might only have a cropped area of 11.5ha due to tracks, field margins, or uncroppable areas.
7. Confirm to continue. In the new pane, select the correct land use option:

• Crop Production – for a field that is growing a crop for production – for example, wheat or potatoes. Use this option for any crop that will be sold
• Fallow – for a field that is fallow
• Other – for a field that is growing something not for production. Use this option for land that is part of an environmental scheme or other land use, including game cover.

8. For crop production fields:
   1. Select a crop by clicking into the list or typing to search
   2. Select a variety using the same method
   3. Enter any other information required (this will depend on the crop selected)
9. Confirm.

To allocate multiple crops to a field:

1. Open the fields module
2. Select the field required
3. Select the details tab
4. Move down to the cropping form, and click Setup Areas
5. Enter a suffix for the first part of the field (for example, ‘A’) and enter the working area of the first part
6. Select + Add Part Field and enter a suffix and area. Repeat 5 & 6 until all the cropping areas of the field are added.
7. Confirm to continue. In the new pane, select the correct land use and cropping information (see 7 & 8 above). Use the arrows at the bottom of the form to move on to the next part of the field.

To continue adding cropping to fields, continue to the next field and repeat this process.

For information on adding field boundaries before continuing, see Allocate a boundary.