The Agriculture Office System  

IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING THE INSTALLATION OF A COMPUTERIZED AGRICULTURE OFFICE SYSTEM IN YOUR MILL, CONTACT US TO SEE HOW WE CAN HELP YOU.

THE PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE IN SPANISH.

 
The Agriculture System:

The Agriculture System is a program designed to manage, control, and inform on the Harvesting and Production stages of the sugarcane crop.  It is the system that links everything together, from the Scale House, the Laboratory, and the Dumpers to the Growers, Farms, and Cane Fields.  

This is the tool used to calculate the monies to pay the growers, based on predefined business rules.

Basically it handles the growers, their farms, and their cane fields.  It can also handle a group of growers that constitute a higher division or company.
 

The Agriculture System can also handle “Toll Cane”: canes ground in this mill, usually belonging to a different mill, whose production (normal sucrose, trash, sugar production), is processed separately from those of this mill.   

Farms could also form groups.  A grower could have a group of farms that are treated as a unit.

A farm or group of farms can be classified also under Toll Cane.

The Cane Fields:  

The Cane Field is the basic unit of the Agriculture System.  The system collects two types of data for the cane fields:

             1.      Agriculture Data

2.      Production Data

The Agriculture Data includes acres, cane variety, cane classification (age), a production estimate (Estimated tonnage per acre or yield), chemical treatment (if any), date planted, number of rows and their measure, and location, and its plant history (what was planted on the field before it was replanted with cane).  

The database also includes soil and legal name, which are not used in the present application but could be incorporated.

The Cane Field is identified by an index, together with a name.

The production data begins to be generated when the crop starts.

The production data can be automatically collected from the Scale Database (if you have the Cane Scale Program) and from the Lab Samples Database (if you have the Lab Samples Program installed in your system); otherwise, you can manually enter that information.  

If you have the Cane Scale Program:  

The Agriculture System offers the functionality to edit the Truck Loads table produced at the Scale House Computer directly where it resides. The Agriculture System operator has the ability to check the truck loads table for errors, run procedures to check for errors, and produce reports, even after the Scale House finished its daily operations and closed the crop day.

After all corrections are made, the program operator clicks the Transfer button and the tables are transferred from the Scale House Computer to the Agriculture System Computer.

If you have the Lab Samples Program:  

The Agriculture System offers the functionality to edit the Samples table produced at the Laboratory Computer directly where it resides. The Agriculture System operator has the ability to check the samples table for errors, run procedures to check for errors, and produce reports, even after the Laboratory finished its daily operations and closed the
crop day.

After all corrections are made, the program operator clicks the Transfer button and the tables are transferred from the Lab Samples Computer to the Agriculture System Computer.

THE MERGING PROCESS:

The Merging process is the procedure to transfer the scale and/or the lab samples data to the Cane Fields table in the Agriculture Database.  It groups the Truck Loads table from the scale and the Lab Samples table from the laboratory by Cane Field, computing total loads, gross cane weight, average brix, sucrose, purity, normal brix, normal sucrose, normal purity, etc.

There are reports that address the Scale database only that can be produced before the Merge, right after you transfer the Scale database to the Agriculture Computer.

You can perform the merging from the Scale even if you do not have the Lab Samples installed, but you cannot perform it if you do not have the Scale Program.  The Lab Samples database presently does not include the Cane Field.

The Merge is performed after the Scale (and the Lab if available) close for the day.

The Cane Varieties:

THE RAMPS:  

The ramp is the point from which the distance to the Mill is measured.  It is the site where the trailers are loaded.  A Cane Field can use more than one ramp.

The distance to the mill is a very important data in the computation of costs.

THE SUCROSE:

THE TRASH:

THE REPORTS:

The Reports shown were designed for Atlantic Sugar Association, Inc. in Florida .  These reports are not all included in the system because most mills have their own.

There are daily reports and optional reports.

You can select the Reports for a specific grower, a group of growers, or all growers, specific farms, group of farms, or all farms,  specific cane field, group of cane fields, or all cane fields, etc.  

The Agriculture System includes reports that, instead of going to the screen or a printer, go to Microsoft Excel Spread Sheets.

HARVESTING COSTS AND HARVESTERS:

 These are very specific module designed for Atlantic Sugar Association, Inc. which probably will need work.  They are not included in the normal package.

HOW TO INCLUDE INTERACTION WITH THE SCALE AND THE LABORATORY SAMPLES PROGRAM AFTER I HAVE THE AGRICULTURE SYSTEM INSTALLED?  

Click on System and enter the full path where their respective databases can be located from the machine running the Agriculture System.