Understanding Creating Farms

In JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Grower Management, a farm is defined as an entity that provides the crop harvest, for example fruits or vegetables, to a purchasing entity. The system supports two types of farms — external and internal.

The system considers an external farm a supplying entity. An example is when worldwide distributors of produce contract with local growers to supply crops for processing, packaging, and shipping to the consumer. External farms are optional. You can use external farms as a parent entity to one or more blocks.

Companies that process and package the crop can also grow and process their own products. In that situation you use internal farms. Internal farms enable the crop processing company to manage the balance sheet and track of the profit and loss for that farm.

You can define the status of a farm as either active or inactive. You cannot create blocks against an inactive farm.