Press
Scientific publications
Hackfort, Sarah. (2021). Patterns of Inequalities in Digital Agriculture: A Systematic Literature Review. Sustainability. 13. 12345. 10.3390/su132212345.
News articles / Press releases
Yasmin Kemnitz and Philip Kosanke. Young vegetables: growing vegetables according to a crop plan (interview by Julia Appel). Published in Gemüse Magazine, Issue 07/2023.
Startup Rukola Soft UG. Comprehensive Software for growing vegetables. (01/2022). Published in Gemüse Online: www.gemuese-online.de .
A young Startup from Niedersachsen changes the way to grow vegetables (22.11.2021). Published in Neue Pressemitteilungen. Press contact: Uwe E. Nimmrichter.
The Micro-Farm Planner offers more than just a planning tool for garden centers. A young startup from Niedersachsen changes the way to grow vegetables (Gäa Letter 04/2021). Published by https://www.gaea.de/index.php .
Release Notes
Release – everything is new in May – Version 3.3 – New fertiliser management and improvements to the mobile app!
– Mobile app
* Create tasks and fertiliser tasks
* Move tasks (like complete task)
* Graphical area view
* Store photo notes to the field (from €35/month)
– Fertiliser Management
* Operation resources warhouse – fertiliser storage for fertiliser master data and fertiliser inventory management
* New fertiliser task with area reference, which is recorded when completed
* Fertiliser documentation with farm balance sheet for N and P and file export
– Time recording – monthly export
– Dashboard – messages: Log of current micro-farm-planner activities
In addition, numerous small improvements and some bug fixes.
Notes on changes:
Fertiliser task: Is now a separate task type. It is no longer sufficient to write “Fertilisation” in the task title. In order for the task to be recorded for the fertilisation statistics after completion, it must be created by “Create fertilisation task” via the system menu or a normal task must be created and converted into a fertilisation task by “Convert to fertilisation task”. Existing fertiliser tasks created in the past cannot be subsequently taken into account for the documentation unless they are newly created as a “fertiliser task”.
Master data for fertilisers is stored in the fertiliser storage (Operation resources warehouse). If changes are made to a fertiliser, these changes only apply to all tasks created after the change in which the fertiliser was selected.
If a fertiliser task is set to ‘Completed’ status, it is fixed and is taken into account as an entry in the fertiliser statistics. Therefore, only ‘complete’ after the quantities specified in the task have actually been applied, otherwise changes are no longer possible!
The first release in 2025, version 3.2 is now available for you!
In addition to some bug fixes and minor improvements, the personnel area has been expanded.
- Contracts can now be created for the working hours of employees. If the conditions change or an employment relationship is terminated, this is now transferred to the personnel overviews in the weekly duty schedule and time recording tables.
- In addition, the annual overview of time recording now has a prominent place in the main menu and shows the number of days of leave taken and all other days in addition to the working hours.
The Christmas release 3.1 is here!
In addition to some bug fixes and minor improvements, the dashboard now includes favourites to select quick access to the most frequently used app areas yourself.
The new features at a glance:
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- The cultivation calendar export has been expanded to include harvest data.
- The fertilisation and crop protection tasks can now have additions in their names.
- Switching between cultivation data when using multiple user environments – with selection in the navigation bar
And another birthday release! We are celebrating the 5th birthday of Rukola-Soft and have now released Micro Farm Planner version 3.0!
The new features at a glance:
- New dashboard with location map, weather map and pinboard
- UX/UI optimised
- Many small improvements throughout the application
- Main menu can be hidden/shown as a sidebar
- FAB button for everything ‘Create’ in the app areas
- New search field and filter
- Improved compatibility with browser functions
- Short tutorial videos directly in the main areas
- New setup wizard
- Plan sentences faster and easier
- Harvest recording as TAB on the set
- Ordering instead of the old ‘delivery’ – clearer and greatly simplified
- Crops, article storage and seed storage clearer and simpler
- Crops and varieties – article number can now be stored
- Seed requirement calculator now with period selection
- Current seed data (TKGs) from Bingenheimer can now be imported
- Smartphone app
- Completely revised and simplified
Login via QR code
Harvest recording for different varieties on set without variety with table overview
- Completely revised and simplified
Birthday Release – For the 4th birthday celebration of Rukola-Soft comes just in time the small but nice release 2.4.5
with an extended harvest and time recording.
The new features at a glance:
- Co-workers – Flexible working time without target times in time recording
- Time recording change log
- Time recording manager – change and control of all employee times
- Weekly duty roster additional b/w print view
- Harvest recording – selection of variety when entering harvest quantity (for sets without assigned variety – all varieties stored in crop master data can be selected)
- Mobile harvest recording – quantity input with variety selection
- Harvest recording – table with quantities of the recorded harvest separated by varieties
Summer planning with cool new features!
For the hot summer we have a refreshing release for you, which you can now view in the (hopefully cool) office, preferably with a cold drink! With versions 2.3 and 2.4, we’re taking planning quality and speed to a new level once again with the “Create Quantity Plan and Cultivation Plan” feature, and also bringing cool workflow improvements with roster, revised tasks, and drag ‘n’ drop in the task calendar. The mobile app now has a stopwatch on tasks for recording task times. And that’s not all!
All new features at a glance:
- Create Crop Plan feature in the Crop Calendar: plan sets of multiple crops for part or all of the season with just one click. Simply select all the crops you want to plan, set one or more time periods for the season if necessary, and click “Create Crop Plan”. The sets are then created from the stored crop data.
- Crop calendar quantity planning (from 35€/mon.): How big do the planned sets have to be to reach the required delivery quantities? Plan the quantities of your season per week and customer, your boxes or CSA and compare the total delivery quantity to your cultivation plan!
- Individually selectable deviating delivery weeks on the planned set for cut crops (e.g. three harvests, every three weeks) or storage crops (delivery in 20 selected weeks after harvest)
- Weekly roster with export – schedule work season and vacations, enter sick days, and export your work weeks for posting and documentation.
- Drag and drop tasks in the task calendar
- Revised task view
- Assign multiple people to a task
- Mobile app stopwatch for task time tracking
- Harvest recording and yield statistics and export: display total weight of recorded harvests of each set even for piece crops or mixed harvests (piece, bunch and kilo)
- Crops list – search field now also considers variety names
Notes on changes:
- Crop calendar export: export button now at top of sidebar “Edit sets”.
- Field view: On planned fields, when clicking on a set bar context menu now on the right mouse button, left click opens set sidebar, when left clicking on an unplanned field, this is selected in the “Add sets sidebar” for planning.
- Release roster for roles and rights: If you have created your own roles, the new functions (e.g. duty rosters) must be enabled under Settings/Roles and Rights. Only then can co-workers with these roles access the features.
We have again a release ready for you that allows the fastest planning and even forgives mistakes!
How does it work? With new functions and thoughtful planning:
New crops in the program?
Plan crop sets for the whole season now by entering the last harvest CW – add the start date of the first set, click on “Create” – done!
In the cultivation calendar – drag and drop can now also be locked, just like in the fields.
Wrong input at the set and data overwritten? Finally an undo function! All entries and settings on the set and when editing multiple sets can now be undone.
Also: More overview of quantity and delivery weight! Harvest recording now with conversion piece to weight (can be activated under Settings/Profile).
Quick planning:
1) Use the quantity editing and copy all your sets from 2022 to the current year with one click. Then adjust them if necessary.
2) Under Planning/Fields open “Add sets”. In the filter, select the field in the “Subsequent records from field”. Close the filter. All sets planned on the field in the previous year will be displayed as a copy in the current year and can now be planned on another field.
The Spring 2023 release is here, with many helpful improvements and a new language pack!
Here are the new options:
In the Crop Calendar:
- New sorting of crop colors, variety, set and field planning status by color in the Crop Calendar filter.
- Option squeeze mode or static calendar view (selectable in settings)
- Weekly statistics total bed meters and bed length multiples
Additional features:
- Cross-area #day storage
- Program in three new languages (Spanish, Italian, French)
Please inform us about translation errors!
Attention, change from this version: no more display of the started last harvest week (it is now, regardless of the start weekday of the set, always the harvest period specified at the set in weeks displayed)
At the beginning of the 2023 season, we have put together a release that has it all!
The program is now not only technically up to date, we have also optimized the look and feel in many places and improved the usability and…
…especially helpful new options to simplify the field planning:
- Planning of single beds
Planning of a record section
Filter record copies of the previous year’s field planning (filter option “subsequent records of field”) – Please note: For this, the copy of the previous year’s record must have been created with “copy to new year”!
In addition, there is now a task statistic with an overview of all tasks with total working times, assignment to sets and fields, notes from tasks (and export option from >35 €/mon) – Please note: If you have created user-defined roles, the new function must be enabled under Settings/RolesandRights/Statistics/Tasks, so that the users with this role can see the statistics and execute the export.
Press-Contact
Rukola Soft UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Schierkenring 14
38543 Hillerse
E-Mail: office[ät]micro-farm-planner.com