Write the programme once
A spray programme is the same every season; only the calendar changes. A template keeps the programme as days: a week before transplanting, day 15, day 31. Use it on a new planting and every day becomes a date counted from that planting's own start.
Save a schedule that worked as a template, or build one. It never goes out of date.
An admin can publish a template so other Famu farms can use it, and take it back.
The dates change; the days do not
The same programme on two plantings, months apart.
A programme written as dates is good for one season. Written as days from a start (the transplanting, the sowing, the day the chicks arrive), it fits every season, and two seasons can be compared day for day.
| Step | Day | Plot A, 1 Mar | Plot B, 15 Sep |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prepare the beds | 7 days before | 22 Feb | 08 Sep |
| Transplant | Day 1 | 01 Mar | 15 Sep |
| Spray: Ridomil | Day 15 | 15 Mar | 29 Sep |
| Top dress: CAN | Day 31 | 31 Mar | 15 Oct |
Save a schedule that worked
Its dates become days from the start it was counted from.
Template on a schedule's page counts every application from the start of the planting, batch or animal it belongs to. A schedule tied to nothing counts from its first application, and you pick its Day 1 each time you use it.
The template keeps the activity, products, doses, notes and instructions. Never who did the work, or what was done. You can also build one from nothing under Schedules → Templates → New.
Use it on a planting
Try it: pick a planting. Day 1 comes from its transplant date, and the preview shows every date.
A transplant programme takes the transplant date even when a sowing date is on file. Plot C was never transplanted, so Famu asks rather than counting from the wrong day.
Create schedule makes an ordinary schedule tied to the planting, marked From the template: tasks, reminders, the PDF and the calendar work on it like on any other. It is yours from then on. Editing the template later never moves it.
Share it with other farms, on your terms
What another farm sees when you publish, and what it never sees.
Other farms see the programme
- Each step's day, activity and instructions
- Products and doses
- Your farm's name, as who shared it
They never see your farm
- The schedule it came from, or its dates
- Who did the work, or what was done
- Anything else on your farm
Only a farm admin can press Publish, and Famu says what becomes visible before it does. Make private takes it off the list at once. A schedule another farm already made from it is theirs and stays.
The rules around a template
Private until published
A new template is your farm's alone. Nothing is public unless an admin publishes it.
Signed-in farms only
Public templates are listed for people signed in to Famu, not on the open web.
Only you can change yours
Another farm can use your published template, never edit or delete it.
Who does what
Admins and managers save and delete templates; only admins publish. Anyone who can add a schedule can use one.
Copies, not links
A schedule made from a template keeps its dates when the template changes or is made private.
Never the wrong start
If a planting lacks the date a template counts from, you are asked for it.
Someone else's programme is not advice
Check a public template against the label and your agro-vet
A public template is what another farm does. Famu does not check its products or doses. Look at the label and ask your agro-vet before you spray.
Moving a planting's transplant date later does not move a schedule already made from a template. Change the dates on the schedule with Edit all.
Earns its keep for
- Crops planted every season on the same programme
- A broiler vaccination plan for every new flock
- Agro-vets and cooperatives sharing a tested programme
Does little for
- A one-off programme for a single problem
- Work that follows the weather rather than the calendar