Micro-Farm Planner – The software for your Farm
Are you looking to develop a really good growth and harvest plan for your vegetable farm? We have the right tool!
The Micro-Farm Planner supports all stages of production planning for your farm or Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project. It allows you to plan and track your operational tasks as well as document your work in real time.
The Micro-Farm Planner offers much more than most conventional crop management programs, which simply support the most basic agricultural production needs for large scale agriculture. With the Micro-Farm Planner, you always have an overview of what is planned at any given time on all your fields and beds, what tasks need to be done when, how much seed and how many seedlings are needed, and what harvest quantities you will need in order to fulfill the needs of your customers. Each employee knows exactly what to do when, and has all the necessary information available to them at all times.
Get an idea of the versatility and functionality of the Micro-Farm Planner now!
Helpful info for using the Micro-Farm Planner
Your benefits
No matter where you are, off-farm or on, you and your employees can always have access to your entire operational plan – anywhere, and on all types of devices.
The Micro-Farm Planner offers numerous options with which you can plan and monitor all ongoing processes in your operation.
You can now easily use the Micro-Farm Planner
on the go
from your smartphone or tablet!
What our clients say:
“The Micro-Farm Planner accompanies us through the year. The versatile access options via cell phone in the field, our farm tablet in the coffee kitchen and on the computer in the office, the program can be used for all necessary planning work, documentation and notes and thus saves many Excel lists, collections of notes, searching and ultimately time… .”
Jörg Böhmer , City farm SaarbrückenI have been waiting for this software for many years!
– regionally produced program!
– real people on the support – phone
– suggestions for improvement flow into development
– mobile recordings in the app
– simplifies the planning phase in the company considerably
– solidary payment model
Rainer, Gärtnerei Hof Medewege“The planning tool helps us to make the cultivation planning more transparent for all co-workers, in the sense of a knowledge transfer.
We have been running a market garden with direct marketing (subscriptions, webshop, weekly market, stores and gastronomy) for 7 years on a versatile organic farm near Bern with 0.6ha of fresh vegetables and 3-4 co-workers, including 1 person in vocational training.
Special challenges: Sunny south-facing slope with ideal conditions autumn to spring. In summer very hot because of solar radiation and high water demand, which we can not cover from our own sources.
Number of crops: over 50 different, all around the year”.
Daniel, legummes“For our small market garden the Micro-Farm Planner is an extremely useful tool. The clear planning of the many crops and tasks creates the necessary structure in our daily work. It gives us the opportunity to concentrate on the essentials during the current season. If we have any questions, the Rucola Soft team responds in a friendly and quick manner. Absolute recommendation!”
Vroni, David, Eva, Laurin, Market Garden GMIAS“We use your Micro-Farm Planner for crop planning and as an overview for pocket planning as well. In the future, maybe for crop management tasks as well.
We do the subscription management with Marats.Challenges: Water availability, erosion risk is high due to soil conditions.
30 ha usable area, of which 1 ha garlic for wholesale, 1 ha for vegetable subscriptions open field, 0.1 ha protected cultivation for 40 crops.”
Georg, Biohof Dusch“Micro-Farm Planner makes my day-to-day work much easier, because everything is already planned and always available on the app. This frees up my mind for other things.
The biggest help for me is the advance planning of the entire growing year, which was also the main reason for me to use the planner. Particularly noteworthy are the many input functions, which allows you to save many details and everything is calculated directly ready, which is very helpful especially in the nursery and planting.
Now the harvest recording is also added, which will certainly provide me next season enormously much planning relief and data for the future.
Especially for people who are new and/or not quite as experienced in farm management and cultivation, the Micro-Farm Planner is a gamechanger.”
“We are Rena and Peter Schmid and run a hobby farm in Gondiswil with the goal of building up a CSA for several families in the coming years. We have a small herd of Dexter cattle which we use for some meat production and especially for the management of the green area in the crop rotation to vegetable production.
Despite the fact that we are still at the very beginning, we have decided to use a good planning software from the beginning. For me as a “beginner” the program helps a lot to put the areas in a working rotation order, to know in something how many plants/area should be planned for a certain crop amount and later it helps me to judge the crop amounts. Currently we use the software to divide the fields and calculate the seedlings/area and crop rotation planning.
Extremely useful is the app, which can be used in the field to help you plant the crops in the right place at the right time.We have about 3 hectares of which only 3a are allocated to vegetable production as test fields. We don’t have any members yet (unfortunately) and are in the process of gaining initial experience on our land.”
The Micro-Farm Planner has been extremely helpful to us in our first season as a CSA “Allerlei”: Starting with the week-by-week calculation of harvest shares, the convenient ordering of transplants and seeds, continuing with the planning of individual sets and their placement on the beds, and ending with the tasks that can be accessed and documented via smartphone in the garden, the software has accompanied us throughout the season. For us, an indispensable tool that has certainly contributed to the successful start of the CSA!
“2022 was our first season and I bought the Micro-Farm Planner at the end of the season. That means I want to use it from now on. But I am only at the input of the master data, which takes me some time, because I have a lot of crops and enter some crops and varieties several times, for the different culture durations in different seasons. My focus is to use the Micro-Farm Planner very intensively, i.e. I want to do all the planning for the whole year, so that I can do everything from seed ordering to seedling planning to sales planning via the Micro-Farm Planner.
We are a small Bio-suisse certified, professionally run vegetable farm and sell our produce (fresh vegetables and transplants) at markets and a few subscription boxes.
The plan is to increase the number of boxes and open a farm store.”
Marco and Maya, VielfaltshofI find the Micro-Farm Planner really sensational.
Have 2021 almost ready planned!
Especially for me as a beginner, he creates order overview and structure in a clarity that no Excel sheet in the world can represent.
A big thank you – this tool is a real asset!
Andreas, Hof-Sonnenweide