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| Old Man Winter is hitting us with all he has, while we sit in our comfy farm houses.
For the new users, give some thought to how you want to organize your farm in your desktop software. Most programs allow you to define your operation by: Client then the farms under that client, then the fields per farm. I enter each landlord as a client, then define the farms based on field size or land mark as well as the fields under the farm.
Starting fresh with no prior data? Enter in the varieties you plan to use this spring, enter the herbicides and fertilizers you use as well. Input your tractors, combines, and implements. Retire the pre populated items that you don't use to make it easier to select things on the screen in the tractor/combine.
For fellow users, now is the time to prepare our precision systems for the coming season. Pull the data cards from the monitors, unload the yield data and/or fertilizer application data. Now is the time to be facing the quirks of software, when the customer support lines are not as busy to get that data unloaded. We have time to spare to get data looked at or fixed if need be before we have to commit to our spring plans.
I recommend experienced users as well as new comers to treat preparing your precision equipment as we do the equipment. Having the tractor's serviced and cleaned up, implements greased and worn sweeps or other replaced.
** Now is the time time to update the precision software if new updates are out.
** Updating desktop or display software
** Entering new clients/farms/fields if new ground is rented/bought
** Entering herbicides, fertilizers, seed varieties, equipment if anything has changed since past season.
** Most importantly ** After desired data is off your data cards, cleaning the cards, saving the new setup data. Power up the displays with the prepped datacards to verify the new setup is there, no warning codes are lit, etc...
The first day of planting is a heck of a time to be fighting warning codes or then inputing new data to your desktop for planting. The dealers are busy, the customer support lines are busy, you are too.
Friendly reminder to fellow farmers.
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Preparation Pays
