Are you harvesting fast enough? To figure that out you need to compare your Harvest Targets and your Harvest Rates. So this spreadsheet does just that! Start off by entering your harvest targets and the spreadsheet will set your harvest thresholds. Next fill out the harvest log (just like in Spreadsheet Tip #65) and then … More fsa tip #66 Are you harvesting fast enough?
This is spreadsheet #2 in the Harvest Efficiency series. This sheet gives you a place to record how much you harvested and in how much time. The spreadsheet turns that into Units / Hour. Then using your sales prices – that becomes $ / hour! Now you don’t have to do this for all your … More fsa tip #65 Track your harvest rates
You’re probably just about to jump into a lot of harvesting on your farm. This might be a good time to stop a moment and think about your harvest efficiency. My next few spreadsheets will be about how to evaluate and improve harvest efficiency on your farm. The starting point is knowing what your harvest … More fsa tip #64 Set your $/Hour Harvest Targets
Here’s the IMAGE formula for your spreadsheets. Way back in farm spreadsheet tips #47 through #50, there were some spreadsheets to manage your online farm store products. And one of the things you could manage was the URLs for your product pictures. It can be confusing when your products start to stack up and you’ve … More fsa tip #63 add product images to your farm spreadsheets
This spreadsheet tip updates the spreadsheet from #57 That spreadsheet turned the weight of seed you wanted to harvest into how much bedfeet you needed to plant. But what if you know the seed count you want and not the seed weight? I’ve added in an average seeds per ounce column and now you can … More fsa tip #62 convert seed counts into seed weights
So you want to take garlic pre-orders? How much of your garlic should you sell while it’s still standing in the field? Today’s spreadsheet will help you figure out how much garlic you want to hold back to plant next year’s crops. And how much garlic you’ll have left to sell. There’s a safety factor … More fsa tip #61 how much garlic should you pre-sell?
This month’s spreadsheet tips are going to be about pre-selling your garlic. There are definitely a lot of considerations if you want to run a pre-order. How do you do this in your online store? How much should you charge? Is it risky? Will anyone buy in advance? But really the place to start is … More fsa tip #60 how much garlic is in your field?
And what varieties should you save for seed? You should start with varieties you’re already growing. And all of that information is already in your seed order. Add a column to your seed order to indicate if a crop is F1 or OP. Then filter to only see your OPs. These are the seeds you … More fsa tip #59 saving seed can start with your seed order
This started as a spreadsheet to show you how you can harvest a crop first as a vegetable and then let it go to seed and harvest the seed too. For leafy greens, this can often double the value of the crop or more. But then i realised that this spreadsheet worked just as well … More fsa tip #58 Stack harvests for more sales per bedft
You can crop plan for seed saving just like you plan for any other crop. All you need is the amount you want to harvest and a yield estimate. Just be careful – seed yields are a bit more variable than crop yields. (Variety also makes a big difference.) Of course, seed is not perishable … More fsa tip #57 How much should you grow for seed?
Going to Seed with Dan Brisebois 