Harvest Records: Yield, Moisture, Price and Buyer per Lot
Harvest records in anee.io live in the Observations module of each season. After the ani (the harvest), note the yield, moisture, price and buyer for each lot. Add any problem you saw, and next season you plan from real numbers instead of memory.
What goes into your harvest records
Open a season, go to Observations and tap Record an observation. Give it a title like 'Lot 1 harvest, 92 sacks', a date and a lot. Then choose what kind of observation it is. The form asks only the questions that fit, so a harvest figure and a lesson never share one long form.
- Yield: how much you harvested, the unit (kg, sacks, cavans or tons), the moisture at harvest, wet or dry weight, and the area harvested
- Selling and price: how much you sold, the price per unit, the buyer, and how they paid: cash on pickup, partly paid or on credit
- Drying and storage: sun or mechanical dryer, days spent drying, moisture after drying, where the grain is kept and what was lost
- Grain or produce quality: the grade the buyer gave, the share rejected or downgraded, and why
- Pest and disease outcome and Weather impact: what hit the crop, how bad it got, the area it reached and the estimated loss
- Lesson for next season: what went wrong or right and what to do differently
Every observation also takes notes, photos and tags, and video clips come with the Solo Farmer and Farm Owner plans. If the season already has the picture, pick it from the farm photo gallery instead of taking it again.
Moisture, wet weight and dry weight
A yield figure means little without its moisture. Palay fresh off the field holds a lot of water, so wet sacks lose weight once dried. That is why the Yield form asks for the moisture at harvest and whether the weight is wet or dry.
Cut by hand when 85 to 90 percent of the grains turn golden yellow. With a combine harvester, wait for 90 to 95 percent. Moisture at harvest is usually 18 to 21 percent in the dry season, 20 to 25 percent in the wet. After threshing, dry the grain to 12 to 14 percent within 12 to 24 hours. So record a Drying and storage observation too, and both readings sit side by side.
For the whole routine of pag aani ng palay (harvesting rice), read our guide to pagtatanim ng palay.
The season so far, added up for you
Above the list, Season so far adds up what you recorded. It shows the harvest in each unit you used, the gross value, the average moisture and the number of observations. Kilograms and sacks keep separate totals. Each card also works out its own gross value, the amount times the price per unit. For example, sell 4,200 kilograms at 23.50 pesos and the card shows 98,700 pesos.
Yield per hectare, the fair way to compare
The meaning of crop yields is simple: the harvest you get from a given area. Our page on ani meaning explains the word and how farmers raise it. The Yield form asks for the area harvested, so later you can compare a small lot with a big one fairly. For instance, 50 cavans from half a hectare is 100 cavans per hectare.
Buyers and the price you got
Write who bought the harvest, at what price and how they paid. A trader who still owes half is easy to forget by the next planting. The card keeps the name under 'Sold to'.
Before you agree to a price, check the palay price today. After two or three seasons, your records show which buyer paid best. Keep that buyer's number in the farm contact list so you can call again.
Where your harvest records go next
- The profit report sets your yield and selling price against what the season spent. It will not run without a yield entry, so it never shows a made up profit.
- Anee's season report reads your observations when she writes the story of the season.
- View as Protocol puts each lot's yield and price under the tasks that produced it.
- Your farm documentation keeps the protocol and receipts of the same season.
Write the observation while the sacks are still in front of you, and snap a photo of the weighing. A number noted that day beats one you try to recall six months later. The farm reports can only add up what you wrote down.
How harvest records helps your crops and your farm
- Know what you really harvested. Yield, moisture and weight per lot, written down while you still remember.
- Sell with numbers in hand. The price and the buyer of each sale help you get a better deal next time.
- Plan from facts, not memory. Next season's targets start from your real yields.
- Reports that fill themselves. Your harvest feeds the profit report and Anee's season report.
Observations are on every plan, including the free Libre plan. Sign up and record your next harvest lot by lot.
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