📘 Screen: Budget - Fields/Crop/Technology
These are the budget's areas. Day to day, a field is a physical piece of the farm; here it's usually a grouping by crop and technology — "SOYBEAN 1,500 ha", "CORN 1,000 ha", "SORGHUM 500 ha" —, because budgets are made by blocks of area under the same management, not field by field.
📍 Location in the system
Menu: Budget > Fields/Crop/Technology
🧩 Main function
State how much area the budget has and how it's split. These are the lines the scenario attaches yield and sale price to, and where the matrices are applied.
In the list bar, next to New and Reload, you'll see the Total (ha) of what is displayed — the number that has to match the area the farm will plant — and the Reports ▼ menu.
📝 Record fields
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Code (order) | Number that identifies the area and sets its order in the list (001, 002). |
| Name/Description | The block's name — "SOYBEAN", "CORN", "SORGHUM", or the field name, if the farm budgets that way. |
| Sector | Grouping by region of the farm, when the budget is split by sector. |
| Area (ha) | How many hectares the block has. It's the multiplier for every variable cost. |
| Active | Removes the block from the budget without deleting its history. |
- The budget's total hectares are visible and checkable right in the list.
- Each block can get its own yield and price expectation in the scenario.
- The matrices have somewhere to be applied.
❓ Frequently asked questions
Do I need to register every field of the farm here?
No. The usual approach is to group by crop and technology — one line for all the soybeans, another for corn —, because the budget is built by management block. Going field by field only pays off when management really differs between them.
I changed a field's area in the crop. Does the budget follow?
No. The records are independent: the area here is the budgeted area. If planting changed, adjust this screen too — that's what keeps planned and actual comparable.
Where do I check whether the total area is right?
In the Total (ha) shown in the list bar, next to the buttons. It adds up what is shown in the grid.