Little River, TX | But than FW may appears to be designed for a more complicated operation than I have. Before FW trial I used, still do as a matter of fact, a double entry program, and the spread sheet, Lotus 123. About any double entry type accounting package will do all that you are saying you want. I found several faults with FW in that, for me it was more complicated than need be. Appeared to be a developed by folks in love with a computer rather than people using a computer as another tool. Almost as if the program was an end in itself and the farming operation was there to support the FW programs.
With their other features I had to do all my farming by a custom applicator to keep it simple. Reason I was and am the only person doing any work. Each piece of equipment is mated with a tractor, though each tractor is mated with more than one piece of equipment. (DA 6240 pulls each of my hay mowers, the NH 1003 bale wagon, the sprayer, and a chisel plow.) It is the same for 3 other tractors and other & different equipment.
As my productivity increased I found I needed to adjust my enterprise subdivisions, something that was a pain with FW.
The only thing I gave up was those pretty maps with colored lines. Small penalty for improved simplicity.
If I had numerous equipment operators, multiple and duplicated tractors and equipment, and spread out enterprises I can see where FW would have been a help. As long as I had someone dedicated to keep the thing fed. One truth for each system is, nothing in nothing out. Which is almost as bad as garbage in garbage out!
I simply did not have the time, or energy, to keep FW posted. Shoot it usually required 5 minutes just to step through the options to get to the place that needed to be posted. Make a wrong turn and it was considerably longer. At the end of a 12 to 14 hour day that was the straw that broke the old grouches back!!!!!!!!! |