The problem with tracking a farm on paper
Costs for seed, fertiliser, labour and irrigation get logged against the farm in general, not a specific crop or season, so it is hard to tell which crop was profitable. Buyer and supplier dues noted by hand are easy to forget, and there is no single place to see the whole season at a glance.
- Input costs mixed across crops and seasons, not per crop
- Buyer and supplier balances tracked from memory or a notebook
- No easy way to see profit per acre for a specific crop