Planning, assets and compliance module
Make a plan, keep track of your business assets and stay compliant.
The planning, assets and compliance module keeps your assets and fuel in check, guides you through NZ Farm Assurance Programme and the Fresh Water Farm Plan, and helps you plan out stock and feed schedules.
Read more about the features below, plus whether they are available on mobile or web.
Reports included in the module:
✔ Fuel report
Farm assets and asset checklists
Mobile features
Complete checklists for assets when you're out in the paddock - do the tractor pre-start check when you're actually out by the tractor
Add notes, photos and documents to completed checklists
Web features
Add farm assets, including buildings, plant and farm machinery, effluent sprayers and irrigators, fuel and water tanks, vehicles, effluent ponds, troughs, dogs and kennels
Record and manage maintenance tasks for assets
Create asset checklists for example, monthly vehicle review checklist
Add notes, photos and documents to completed checklists
Record current nutrient value for an effluent pond
Record road user charge distance licences
Fuel top ups and auditing
Mobile features
Record fuel top ups for assets you have recorded in Grow, including farm machinery, farm vehicles and fuel tanks
See a record of an asset's fuel top ups in its asset history
The Grow system updates fuel tank levels based on the top ups and removals you record
Record information, including date, time of day, employee doing the top up, amount of fuel, gauge readings and fuel provider
Add notes, photos and attachments
Web features
Record fuel top ups for assets you have recorded in Grow, including farm machinery, farm vehicles and fuel tanks
See a record of an asset's fuel top ups in its asset history
The Grow system updates fuel tank levels based on the top ups and removals you record
Record information, including date, time of day, employee doing the top up, amount of fuel, gauge readings and fuel provider
Add notes, photos and attachments
Use fuel tank auditing to highlight when fuel has been taken without being recorded, or a top was recorded incorrectly
NZFAP and FWFP dashboards
Web features
Integrate with the NZ Farm Assurance Programme and get access to the NZFAP dashboard in Grow
Prepare for your NZFAP audit, record and track your progress, and save compliance evidence as you go
Create NZFAP tasks and they will appear in the Grow diary, on the map and in the task bar (if they are assigned to you)
Develop and manage a Fresh Water Farm Plan
Map your land units, identify your risks to fresh water and specify actions to mitigate the risks
Give your auditor third-party access to both dashboards
Feed planner and feed budgets
Web features
Use the feed planner to plan and monitor pasture, pasture cover and supplementary feed decisions
The feed planner calculates expected pasture covers and total supplementary feed required for a certain period of time
The feed planner also predicts what will happen to supplementary feed inventory levels, so you can plan to purchase or make supplementary feed if needed
Test different scenarios by adjusting animal numbers, pasture covers and supplementary feed
Set up a feed plan so that it is updated with actual pasture covers and inventory changes as you record them in Grow
Use the feed budget tool to compare feed supply against feed demand for a certain period of time
Create a feed budget for all or part of your farm
Use any combination of pasture, supplementary feed and crops in your feed budget
The feed budget tool works well for livestock farming and dairy grazing
Gross margin calculators
Web features
Test different scenarios for stock, market and cost conditions to work out what gross margin you can expect
The tool calculates gross margin per head and, when you enter the tally and total gross margin
Use specific gross margin calculators for finishing, store and grazing animals
Includes a sensitivity table for finishing and store animals that allows you to see how different outcomes for prices and growth rates will affect your profitability
Rotation planners
Web features
Use the spring rotation planner to plan your grazing management during and after calving
The spring rotation planner uses your inputs to calculate and display area fed per day, round length and target cover over time.
Choose whether the graphs show daily or weekly values
Use the stock rotations tool to set up stock movement plans that optimise the use of pasture and feed on your farm
The tool determines the optimum number of days in each paddock based on your farm details and information you enter
Create stock movement tasks automatically from the plan
Update the plan with actual pasture information as you rotate your animals
