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- From: Chrys Ostrander <chrys AT thefutureisorganic.net>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] agsquared
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:10:01 -0800
I've played with AgSquared a bit also since it went "live" and I
share some of the frustrations and have noticed some of the
shorcomings. I do think the tool reflects a great deal of thought
put into it on the part of the developers. No, it's not perfect yet
and yes, perhaps its present shortcomings make it less than useful
for many operations. However, I am sure the developers still want to hear feedback and also want to improve the tool, so, Lisa and others experimenting with it, I hope you share your views directly with them (I also have no financial interest in AgSquared-- just a farmer who has sought such a tool for a long-time . Chrys Chrys Ostrander, Director of Farming
Programs
People for Environmental Action and Community Health "Local Food for All" Manager, p.e.a.c.h. Community Farm at Pine Meadow 10425 S. Andrus Rd. Cheney, Wa 99004 509-448-3066 farms AT peachlocal.com www.peachlocal.com On 1/3/2012 10:10 AM, Burke Farm wrote: Hi folks, I spent a lot of yesterday messing around with agsquared. It's nice, but it's not everything I hoped it would be. For those of us who are used to a spreadsheet, the data entry is time-consuming. And, as a market farmer, I can't imagine having to re enter all my crops and successions every year. The beauty of my spreadsheet is I can copy the whole thing, change the year and the beds, and have 80% of my work done for the next year. It also doesn't appear to have a feature for recording yield data. You can do predicted harvest quantities, but I at least have not found a way to plug in & compare actual yield. This is something I could really use a tool for, because I'm very bad about recording all my harvest data on little pieces of paper and 3 different notebooks, and then never doing anything with them after that. The calendar is neat, but not everything I had hoped for. It has a pretty user interface, but I'm not sold on spending 4$/ month yet. Oh, and the farm mapping tool? Nice idea.. but drawing the exact size of my outbuildings and fields with a mouse and no way to just type in the dimensions = frustration. Lisa Burke Farming Engineers LLC z 5, Central IN very happy the lime truck came today. _______________________________________________ Market-farming mailing list Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming Market Farming List Archives may be found here: https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/market-farming/ Unsubscribe from the list here (you will need to login in with your email address and password): http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/options/market-farming |
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[Market-farming] AgSquared,
Shoemaker, William H, 01/03/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] AgSquared, Todd Lister, 01/03/2012
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Re: [Market-farming] AgSquared,
KAKerby, 01/03/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] AgSquared, Beth Spaugh, 01/03/2012
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[Market-farming] agsquared,
Burke Farm, 01/03/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] agsquared, Chrys Ostrander, 01/03/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] agsquared, Beth Spaugh, 01/03/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] agsquared, Carla Maness, 01/04/2012
- Re: [Market-farming] agsquared, KAKerby, 01/03/2012
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