Example Data Entry - UCD Cost and Return Study

[qjhart]

These are notes on testing the Farm Budget App, using UCD's Cost and Return Study for Wine Grapes in Sacramento Valley.

The study have very detailed information, and is pretty easy to follow. However, the organization is a bit different than our tool, so some modifications need to be done. The first issue is the hypothetical farm. The study shows a 200 acre farm, 135 in established grapes, and 60 to be established. We can replicate the farm exactly, or break it into two. Some of the tables are broken out by category (Tables 1,2) and some are not (Table 8). Tables, 3 and 4 should be automatically generated. Tables 5,56

Table	Title	Description
1	Overall Costs	For establishment. Generated table. Seperate,if we use two budgets
2	Cost per acre for production	Established grapes. Generated, Seperate if we use two budgets.
3	Costs/acre production/return	Generated
4	Monthly Costs / acre
5	Returns	Not included
6	Whole Farm Capital Equipment	Included in Complex material for equipment
7	Hourly Equipment Costs	Should be generated from complex materials
8	Operations	This is what we should input. We will use their exact same operations, however, each row will be a single material, which can be complex.

Most of the reports are in a per acre setup, but I will follow the acreage as described in the report. I think that helps when you describe the types of operations you have. This mostly means I will need to multiply my operation times.

Usually, I have started from the bottom up, but this time I will try from the top down, creating empty operations, and filling them in as I go.

Step 1. Operations

Put in all operations, title only. Used same title as in table, left off the number of times. That took less than 10 minutes.

• [ ] The biggest issue that I found was that some characters '(' for example screw up the search.
• [ ] Also, if you try and edit an operation name, then all white spaces are removed.
• [ ] The '(' is ignored in searches.
• [ ] Have a little bit of markdown as a description of the operations?

  Scheduling

Next, from Table 8, I'll add in the operations. The table is monthly, and I'll mostly keep it at that. However, at this point, I see that they will change the amounts of some of their operations from month to month. This is not how we have things scheduled. So, I will change the operation names, specifically adding a new operation for each irrigation/fertilization event. So, I don't forget, I'll add in the materials for those.

• [ ] If you change the title for the operation, it is not shown properly when you later add to the schedule. Once you save it's all good.
• [ ] Edit schedule should have a [Done] or [Save] Button on the bottom.
• [ ] If you are scheduling a bunch of operations, it would be nice if the Edit schedule Panel had a pull down on the operation, so you can more quickly go from one to the next.
• [x] I think it's a personal preference on your scheduling if you want to put bigger ranges, or smaller ones. They both work well. I did a few both ways.
• [ ] When you use calender, it'd be nice to maintain the currently selected day when you change months.
• [ ] When you add a new item to schedule, should be default use last duration. So if the first one you add is one day, so will the next ones.
• [ ] Above all Schedules, should be an ALL, which allows you to change duration of all scheduled events.

Despite the number of items here, scheduling went very easy. Spotted what appeared to be errors in the budget (Fertilize N w/irrigation should be in SEP, not OCT). After adding in the operations, we have a very nice operation timeline to investigate.

Materials

Now that the operations are in, I'll start to add in the materials. Again, I will start with complex materials, and work from there.

• [ ] When, I first go to the materials list, I get this cryptic error.

Although it doesn't actually seem like I have any errors actually.

Hmm, I am editing a UCD Ext, budget, but the UCD Ext are not included. I can import them one at a time. I guess I like that, it keeps your materials list uncluttered. OK, UCD is using a jrmerz Labor, I want to move that over to UCD. That was quite Easy to do, I just changed authorities, and saved it.

[qjhart]

Now , I seem to be stuck. I cannot add materials to the operation. It seems I can continue to manipulate the materials list, but nothing else.

[jrmerz]

@qjhart pushed bug fixes from yesterday's testing.