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  • From: Carla Maness <manessfarm AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] agsquared
  • Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:12:13 -0600

I've spent a little bit of time this morning playing around with Ag Squared. I don't think it's for me. I've used spread sheets for years, and sitting here trying to enter all my data is too time consuming for me. If I could download my excel files into their format ( maybe I can and I'm just not seeing it?) would help. The field mapping is OK, but I can do the same thing with Google Earth so... I'm a little disappointed. I thought this would be the "thing" to make my life easier. 

Carla
Perkins, OK

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Burke Farm <burkefarm AT gmail.com> 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.
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