My father-in-law is a small farmer running 2000-3000 acres each year, depending on the year. My wife does the books for the family farm so I get to hear quite a bit about what is going on per field, per crop, etc.
I signed up for the trial to see what it was like. The UI is very simple and looks easy to use. The only thing that I might recommend is that you look into standardized farm management taxonomy.
Serious farmers will go take classes on how to scale and run profitable farms. Most of these classes teach them to separate tasks/costs into Enterprises and Overheads per field or other terms that I am personally not too familiar with. It looks like you're heading the right direction, I just didn't see a lot of the terms I hear thrown around when talking with my wife or father-in-law. They have both sat in on classes that I described above although they are farmers - they will do and say things their own way, class or not.
Here's a Farm Management Glossary that looks pretty decent. Perhaps you can start here and compare your software's definitions with these:
I wonder if this isn't a case of competing standards?
I'm speaking entirely hypothetically here, as I've never been anywhere near a farm, but having seen ITIL, Six Sigma and other enterprisey terminologies vary between methodologies, I can't help but wonder if they're not using the right lexicon because maybe they're using a 'different', competing lexicon?
Either way, that looks to be a great tip and solid criticism.
I signed up for the trial to see what it was like. The UI is very simple and looks easy to use. The only thing that I might recommend is that you look into standardized farm management taxonomy.
Serious farmers will go take classes on how to scale and run profitable farms. Most of these classes teach them to separate tasks/costs into Enterprises and Overheads per field or other terms that I am personally not too familiar with. It looks like you're heading the right direction, I just didn't see a lot of the terms I hear thrown around when talking with my wife or father-in-law. They have both sat in on classes that I described above although they are farmers - they will do and say things their own way, class or not.
Here's a Farm Management Glossary that looks pretty decent. Perhaps you can start here and compare your software's definitions with these:
http://fdin.net/glossary.htm
Good luck!