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- 1. On-Farm Record Keeping Ifit’s not measures it’s not managed ACORN 2016 Ironwood Organics
- 2. Historical Look Back •Starts with sharing memories and methods • History is based on it, it is our ‘knowledge base’ • All living things carry a ‘memory’ of the past • Human records represent collective learning: – first in oral tradition, then mnemonics, then art, epic poems, written texts, and wiki’s
- 3. Why Keep Records •Compliance • Financial • Cost of production • Traceability • Too much to remember • Long time frames • Knowledge capital of the farm • Form the basis for analysis and management
- 4. A management question •Ultimately it is about management • If it’s not measured, it’s not managed • The success of management is tied to success of measurement • But if your not going to manage, why measure – just another overhead • Move towards organizational maturity • If it didn’t happen twice, it didn’t really happen Assess Change / Modify Measure
- 5. Types of Records •Assets / Inventory • Activities • Financial • Spatial / Maps • Certification /Accreditation / Memberships • Observations • Contacts • Breeding (plant / animal) …….
- 6. Record Keeping: All-in •If you’re going to choose to record something, make it complete and accurate. • Better to have less data that is relevant, accurate and complete than more data that is inaccurate and incomplete. • Bad data results in bad decisions
- 7. What is appropriatedata • Mandatory recording keeps you in compliance • Optional record keeping is based on your questions • Incomplete or inaccurate records can be very costly • Work backwards from your questions – What are my questions? – What do I need to answer that question over what time period? – Where can I get that data from? – What do I need to record?
- 8. Possible questions • Whichcrops take the most man hours, tractor hours? • What equipment isn’t being used to its potential? • What is costing me too much to maintain? • Is preventative maintenance paying off? • Which implement is being used the most – replace for a ‘better one’? • What is the crop history for a certain field? • What is the grow history for a certain crop? • What is the max/min/mean rainfall for the last 5 years? • Which crops were most profitable from a labour perspective? • Which crop varieties performed best in a drought year?
- 9. Moving from Liststo Insights • Basic level is a series of lists or inventories – List of equipment – List of fields – List of crops for the year – List of field activities • Linking lists provide a ‘view’ from a different perspective • Stand on the ‘entity’ and look at the ‘attributes’
- 10. Entities and Attributes •Ones person’s entity is another person’s attributes. • The same ‘thing’ can mean something different to different people. • How do we model the vast array of ‘things’ on a farm operation, and the relationship between and among those things, over time?
- 11. Entity Relationship Diagram •List the entities ( person, place, things) • Lists of attributed that describe each entity • List the relationships between those entities • Each entity has a unique number or key – Serial number – Employee number – Lot number – Field number – Variety Name
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- 18. How much fueldid it take to grow that crop? 11 22 33 44 55
- 19. Mapping • Most eventshave a space and a time • Spatial data (where) can be characterized as points, lines or polygons • Points have a location ( e.g. well head) • Lines have bearing and distance ( e.g. fence line) • Polygons have perimeters and areas (e.g. field or green house)
- 20. 1st record ofthe farm • 1867 Survey • 1 building • Owner: Mrs Johnson • A river headwater
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- 22. Work Flow • Initialdesign and data population – Do your compliance lists – Ask your questions – Build your reference data sets – Set your primary keys • On-going data population – Field capture - real time – Clean up and record in permanent log book - weekly – Data entry to digital file – at least 1 pre quarter
- 23. Example of ListReporting
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- 25. Litres of Fuelby Tractor by Year Summary of Man Hours and Tractor Hours
- 26. Details of all‘grow periods’ in 2015
- 27. Summary of Activitiesin W7 Since Inception
- 28. Detail and SummaryMaintenance Logs
- 29. Back to thebeginning • Store only the data you have to or data that will answer your questions. • If you store it, make it complete and accurate. • Do your analysis for prior year(s) – What was profitable? – More maintenance? – Sell / acquire equipment? – Crop / climate performance? – Grow less and do more value add? – Increase crop diversity?
- 30. If it’s notmeasured its not managed.