The document discusses key considerations for farm operations management including inputs/outputs, fields, storage, personnel, finance, planning, and execution. It outlines managing spatial and local contexts like weather, fleet movement of personnel and equipment, long and near-term planning. It also covers tracking who did what work where through operator and equipment data, reconciling data, and analyzing completion rates and harvest amounts. Additional reasons for operations management are planning for future seasons, benchmarking productivity, and budgeting for land, inputs, and contracts.

1. Farm Ops Management
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2. What to manage?
• Inputs/Output
• Fields
• Storage
• Personnel
• Finance
• Planning
• Execution

3. Where are these operations?
• Spatial context
– Where are the activities to be done?
• Local conditions
– How is the weather?
– Can I work this field?
• Fleet movement
– Where are my personnel and equipment?

4. When to do these operations?
• Long-term planning
– What is the general plan?
– What is needed to execute the general plan?
• Near-term planning
– What can be done today, tomorrow and the
day after?
– Who is available to do the work?

5. Who did what?
• Operator
– What did the operator?
– Where did the operator work?
• Equipment
– Two words: machine data
• Reconciliation
– Do my Operator info and Equipment data match?
• Analysis
– What was the completion rate for the day?
– How much product did we harvest from that
field?

6. Why these operations?
• Planning for next season
– Strategies
– Restrictions based upon local contexts
• Analytics
– Benchmarking
– Productivity
• Budgeting
– Land
– Inputs
– Contracts