CREATING A PLAN
- Once you’re in your chosen site, press the Plans tab and ‘+’ to create a new plan.
- You first have to choose whether it is a Fertiliser or Spray plan; by default, Spray will be selected.
- When you press ‘Add Field’, a pop-up box will appear and you can select the relevant field(s) the plan will apply to.
- You can manually choose the products (i.e. fertilisers or crop protection products) by pressing ‘Add Product’; a pop-up box will appear allowing you to pick what you need (one at a time).
- Once a product is chosen, you need to enter the quantity of product to be used; this can be the application rate or total amount.
- If templates have been created for the crops your plan relates to, ‘Use Template’ will be green. This indicates you have templates that could be used (this saves entering all the information as the products and application rates are automatically input).
- A green downward arrow will appear at the end of each product added; tap this to reveal the reason for it being used and to add the financial cost of the product.
- Satisfied all information is correct, press ‘Audit Plan’.
Please note: If the product has previously been used, the system will reuse the same application rate and price, unless entered differently.
- Greenlight Farm Management will perform an audit and provide an analysis.
- If you are happy with the results, you can tap ‘Publish Plan’; the next time the app is sync’d, the plan will be visible to other users, such as the Farmer enabling the action to be taken.
Plans can be in four stages. A Draft plan is a plan that only the creator can see, these plans are usually for unfinished work. A Published plan are for those plans that are complete and are to be shared. An Applied plan is a published plan, which has been confirmed as sprayed. An addition symbol shows plans that are partially applied (e.g. if the plan relates to four fields, but the product(s) applied to only one.
VIEWING & EDITING A PLAN
- From the Plans page of your site, press the thumbnail of the one you want to view/edit.
- You can edit various parts of the plan and you can ‘Apply Plan’.
- Once any changes are made, you can no longer apply that plan; instead, this option is replaced with ‘Audit Plan’, which will then enable you to publish it.
REMOVING A PLAN
- Open the plan you want to remove and press the actions icon.
- Within the options available is ‘Remove this Plan’ tap this and you will need to confirm the action.
- You might remove a plan if it was added in error and there is no need for it to remain.
ABANDONING A PLAN
- Like removing a plan, the option to ‘Abandon this Plan’ is in the actions column, when you have the plan open within the app.
- If you choose to abandon it, you will see a pop-up screen asking you to confirm the action.
- You might abandon, instead of remove, a plan if you missed the deadline for when the products had to be applied, however you still want a record.
APPLYING A PLAN
- If you are ready to apply the plan, once it is open, press ‘Apply Plan’.
- Amendments can still be made to the plan, such as changing the application rate or removing a product.
- Satisfied all the products and application rates are correct, scroll down the page and complete all relevant information, such as ‘Operator’, ‘Start date & time’ and ‘Operation Cost’ (if previously used, this will auto-populate with the same figure).
- Go and spray the field.
- When finished, click the ‘End date & time’ and ‘Save’.
- In Plans, your activity will have changed the status from Published to Applied.
- If you added or removed product and amended the application rates, these will be in red text.