📘 Screen: Active Ingredient
The Active Ingredient screen is a simple setup used to keep a standardized list of the active ingredients in the farm's products (such as crop protection products, fertilizers, etc.).
📍 Location in the system
Menu: Inventory > Active Ingredient
🧩 Main function
Lets you record active ingredients in one central place so that they can later be linked to the products set up in the system.
This makes organizing, searching and generating technical and regulatory reports easier when they require identifying the active ingredient used in a given operation.
📝 Setup fields
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Code | Internal identifier. |
| Description | Name of the active ingredient (e.g., Glyphosate, Sulfur, Imidacloprid). |
| Notes | Free-text field for additional notes. |
| Active | Defines whether the ingredient is available for use in the system. |
- Linking them to products becomes standardized
- Technical reports are easier to generate
- Traceability of field applications improves
❓ Frequently asked questions
Why set up the active ingredient separately from the product?
To keep a standardized list. Several commercial products share the same active ingredient — for example, Glyphosate — and keeping a central record makes searching easier and avoids different spellings for the same thing.
Where is the active ingredient used after it is set up?
It is linked to products, on the Active ingredient tab of the Product & Service record. A product can have more than one active ingredient.
What is this for in practice?
To generate technical and regulatory reports that require identifying the active ingredient used in each operation, and to improve the traceability of field applications.