Built for people who get paid for the work, or answer for it
Three kinds of operation get the most out of FarmingMode. There is plenty of overlap between them, and lots of farms are two of the three at once.
You did the work. Now you have to put a number on it.
You have been on three farms this week with your own trucks and two you hired in. The weights are on a clipboard, one driver texted his loads, and the hour meters were written on the back of an envelope. The grower wants an invoice on Monday.
- Whose equipment did what — trucks and tractors each belong to an owner, so hired and borrowed iron is still accounted for when you settle up.
- The reports you bill from — Manure Cost and Manure Manifest, plus the same pair for box spreading, and forage totals by grower and field.
- Hour meters, not estimates — start and end readings per machine per day, plus fuel. When a grower queries a bill you have numbers, not an argument.
- One grower's season in a filter — every session records who it was for and which field, so pulling one customer out of a whole year takes seconds.
- Drivers can enter their own — give operators a login limited to the pages they need, and the day goes in as it happens.
You harvest your own forage and haul your own manure
Fourth cutting is coming off, the pit needs agitating before Thursday, and six people's hours are on a whiteboard in the shop. Somebody asks how many tons came off that field last year and nobody can say.
- It speaks the language you do — haylage, silage, snaplage, cuttings, pits, pens, agitation, tanking, dry matter.
- Forage and manure together — both use the same session pattern and the same field list, so what went on a field and what came off it live side by side.
- Dry tons without the arithmetic — enter the dry matter percentage and the day's dry tons work themselves out.
- The crew's hours off the whiteboard — employees punch in with a PIN, and hours export for any date range.
- Last year is one menu away — each season keeps its own records. Switch back and the tons off that field are right there.
You need to know what went on which field, and when
You planted three hybrids across nine fields and would like to know in December which one actually did anything. The spray records are in a notebook that lives in the sprayer, and the moisture tickets are piling up in the truck door.
- Crop and variety, tracked apart — corn is a crop, the hybrid is a variety inside it, and seasons stay separate so you can compare across years.
- Spray records with the conditions — date, field, wind, temperature, notes, and a row per product with its rate.
- Wheat by the load — in weight, empty weight, moisture percentage and which elevator or bin it went to.
- Bales you can find again — material, shape, weights per load and the storage location.
When FarmingMode is not the right tool
It is a record-keeping app. If what you actually need is any of this, it will not do it and you should look elsewhere:
- Field mapping, GPS boundaries or automatic acre calculation
- Yield mapping, soil sampling or agronomic recommendations
- Machine data from John Deere Operations Center, Climate FieldView or similar
- A direct feed into QuickBooks, accounting software or a payroll provider
- Herd, feed or inventory management
- A regulatory nutrient management plan
- Working with no signal, out in the field
What it does do is take the day's work off paper and give it back as a spreadsheet. If that is the problem, it fits well.
See whether it fits your operation
Thirty days free, no credit card. Set the farm up, run a real week through it, and judge it on your own numbers.