Perennial Crops

FarmQA supports the functionality of having users assign perennial crops to their fields. This allows for multiple harvest dates to be associated to that crop and for the plant date to span multiple growing seasons. See the instructions below on how this assignment can be made.

Adding a perennial crop

Changing an existing crop to perennial

Bringing fields assigned to a perennial crop into new growing seasons

Adding a perennial crop

• Log in to your FarmQA account from the web app.
• Click on the Settings icon, then go to the Crops/varieties tab.
• Click on the blue Add new crop   button in the lower right-hand corner of the screen. 
• Fill out the following information to setup your perennial crop (pictured below):
  1. Assign a Name and Master crop to your crop. These two will likely be similar like in the example shown below.
  2. Check the Perennial box.
  3. Set a Perennial start date, which is used for calculating growing degree units (GDUs) for your crop.
  4. Assign a default Template to this crop.
  5. Set a GDU base temp. Also set a GDU max temp if that applies to your crop.
  6. Use the Yield unit dropdown menu to set yield units for your crop. 

• Click the Add crop button when you're done inputting this information.

Changing an existing crop to perennial

• Login to FarmQA account from the web app.
• Click on the Settings tab, then on Crops/varieties tab.
• Hover your cursor over the crop you want to set to perennial, then click on the Edit icon on the far right-hand side of the crop (pictured below). 

• Check the Perennial box to turn the flag on or off. Your change will be saved automatically (pictured below).

Bringing fields assigned to a perennial crop into new growing seasons

If you Duplicate a growing season that has a field(s) with a perennial crop assigned, your field will be brought over automatically and you will have access to your field in the new growing season.

If you create a New growing season, you will still have to assign crops to your field(s) that had perennial crops assigned to them in previous seasons. In the Map tap, locate and click on the field that needs to be assigned to a perennial crop. You'll see the planting event from your previous growing season in the Events tab in the slide-out map pane (pictured below). 

To setup your field, click on the Assign button in the slide-out map pane, then use the Assign crop to fields dropdown to assign your field to the proper perennial crop. Don't assign a Plant date as your field will have a perennial crop assigned from the previous growing season (pictured below). 

Changing fields from a perennial crop to an annual for one growing season

• Log in to your FarmQA account from the web app if you haven't already. 
• Click on the Fields tab, then check the box to the left of the field you want to change a crop assignment from in the Fields tab. 
• Click the Assign a crop button above the field information table (pictured below). 

• In the Assign crop window, after you've selected the crop and planting date, check the Apply this change to *this growing season* only box if you only want to change the crop from the currently assigned perennial in the growing season you've selected (pictured below). 

• Click Assign to save your changes. 

Please contact FarmQA Support with any further questions