Field Maps

In Croptracker the relationship between you and your blocks looks like this:

• Organization (Your Company Name)

  • Farm (Farm X, Orchard Y, Vineyard Z)

    • Block (East Gala, 2010 Red Haven)

    • Block (South Gala)

    • Block (Early Goldens)

  • Farm (Second Orchard)

    • Block (2008 Red Haven)

Everything works a lot like an organization chart - your Organisation is at the top, followed by the Farms, then Blocks, and rows.

By setting up your blocks in this hierarchy it will be easy to select all of the blocks in one farm, or your entire operation when recording events, or running reports. It's also easy to select blocks by crop, variety or planting date.

Entering your blocks is quick and easy - you can add more or less detail, and you can even draw the map of the block for quick reference, or to print for simple to follow work orders.

Optionally, you can enter row level data.  In this case, your hierarchy relationship would look more like this:

• Organization (Your Company Name)

  • Farm (Farm X, Orchard Y, Vineyard Z)

    • Block (East A)

      • Rows (East A Gala)

      • Rows (East A Honeycrisp)

      • Rows (East A Ambrosia, etc.)

For more information about mapping mixed blocks, or mapping more than one variety to a block please see the article Map Multiple Mixed Varieties in a Single Block.

To move straight to mapping your blocks, see How to Add Your Maps