🧩 Extra: Perennial crop - Work order

This guide was put together to explain the steps needed to create a crop work order for a perennial crop correctly, avoiding calculation errors.

In a perennial crop, especially oranges, the way the calculation works changes, so we created some specific settings.

📘 1. Crop

Location in the system: Crops > Crop

Main function: Records the crops the farm works with, such as soybeans, corn, cotton, and perennial crops such as citrus, coffee, cocoa, among others.

Important: Check Perennial correctly so that the fields this crop needs are shown in the season planting.

✅ After entering or changing the crop, move on to Season Planting.

📘 2. Season Planting

Location in the system: Crops > Season Planting

Main function: Links field + crop + variety(ies) + season + area.

⚠️ Important: When you select a perennial crop, the Planting Details field appears, where you must add:
  • Row spacing
  • Plant spacing
That way the number of plants is counted, and it is used in the crop work order for the calculations.

✅ After entering or changing the season planting, move on to Nozzle.

📘 3. Spray Nozzle

Location in the system: Operations > Spray Nozzle

Main function: Records nozzles, their flow rates and pressures, standardizing the values.

✅ After entering the nozzle or adding flow rate and pressure to an existing one, move on to Work Order/Activity Type.

📘 4. Work Order/Activity Type

Location in the system: Operations > Work Order/Activity Type

Main function: Records the activity types used to open work orders.

Important: Set the crop type to Perennial to unlock the work order functions for that crop.

✅ With the Work Order/Activity Type entered, go on to the crop work order.

📘 5. Work Order/Activity

Location in the system: Operations > Work Order/Activity

Main function: Enter and execute the work orders carried out in day-to-day field work.

  1. Create the header, choosing an activity type that is of the PERENNIAL type.
  2. Include only one field, which must be of the perennial type.
  3. Go to the Pesticide Application tab, in the header, and fill in the nozzle, speed and the other fields.
  4. Save the header.
  5. In the products, choose the "Perennial" spray mix option.
  6. In the Dose per tank field, enter it: with that, the total quantity is calculated from the header data.
⚠️ Attention: Data such as plants per meter and total number of plants come from the planting entered in step 2 (Season Planting).
Always check that this information is correct so the rate calculation is accurate.

❓ Frequently asked questions

Why does the work order calculation change for a perennial crop?

Because in perennials, especially oranges, the basis of the calculation is the number of plants, not just the area. That is why there are specific settings, starting with marking the crop as Perennial.

How does the system calculate the number of plants?

From the Planting Details field, shown in Season Planting when the crop is perennial. There you enter the row spacing and the plant spacing — the system uses those two values to count the plants used in the crop work order calculation.

What do I need to set up before creating the application order?

In this order: the Crop marked as Perennial, the Season Planting with the spacing details, and the Spray Nozzle (under Operations > Spray Nozzle), with its standardized flow rates and pressures.