Crop Rotation

Crop rotation is the business practice in farming of growing dissimilar types of crops in the same area in sequential growing seasons. Crop rotation enables you to keep fields under continuous production, thereby reducing the need for fields to lay fallow or inactive for a period. The benefits of rotating crops include:

• Controlling disease, pests, and weeds.

• Balancing fertility demands.

• Preventing land erosion.

• Preserving irrigation patterns.

The JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Grower Management system enables you to:

• Dynamically define crops that grow on a block. You can optionally require the item number on the Grower block table (F40G02) and populate the item by default onto the Grower Harvest (F40G03) and Harvest Item Master (F40G034) tables when you generate a harvest record. When choosing to require an item, you may leave the item and harvest pattern fields blank. If this is done, you must use the Grower Harvest Maintenance program (P40G03) to add harvests. Also, all subsequent processes retrieve item information from the F40G034 table rather than the F40G02 table.

• Retain historical information of all crops grown on a block.

• Track input costs per block. This is very crucial due to volatile market fluctuations that may impact future decisions of crops.