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Field, soil, and crop record-keeping for small farms

From mapping your fields to logging soil amendments to tracking hay off each cutting, the Soil & Crops tab keeps your field-level records in one place instead of scattered notebooks and phone photos.

1. Open the Soil & Crops tabIn the left rail, go to Soil & Crops. Four sub-tabs sit at the top: Conditions, Field Log, Planting, and Harvest.
2. Draw your fields on the mapOn the Field Log sub-tab, click "+ Add field," then click points around the field's perimeter on the satellite map and double-click the last point to finish the shape. Each field's acreage is calculated from what you draw.
3. Check soil conditions and planting depthThe Conditions sub-tab shows current Soil Conditions and Planting Depth guidance for your location, pulled automatically — no manual entry needed to see it.
4. Log a soil amendmentUnder Amendment Recommendations on the Conditions sub-tab, use "Record an application" and click "+ Log application" to note what you put down and when — lime, fertilizer, manure, anything applied to a field.
5. Look up planting windows by cropOn the Planting sub-tab, use the "Check a crop" dropdown to pull planting-window guidance for a specific crop, or scroll the full Almanac Calendar for a season-at-a-glance view.
6. Log a harvestOn the Harvest sub-tab, click "+ Add harvest" to record what came off a field and when. Hay harvests recorded here automatically deposit into your Feed Lot inventory on the Livestock tab — no separate entry needed.
7. Review harvest historyThe same Harvest sub-tab keeps "Recent harvests" and a "Harvest by year" rollup, so you can compare this year's cutting against past seasons at a glance.